When I Approve of Filing Bankruptcy

One of my friends called me today, very upset about a situation going on with her mother.

I can’t really go into much detail, since I don’t know much.  I do know that her father passed away five years ago and there wasn’t any retirement money.

Her mom’s health is failing, she is in [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Tips for Using Home Air Conditioning

These tips will help you use your air conditioner efficiently and in the end is a way of saving money since your electricity bill will be lower, and in some cases can prolong the life of your unit since you may be able to catch a problem that could worsen if you just keep [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Blast from the Past July 2008

Hello and welcome to my monthly edition of Blast from the Past. Out of Debt again was 11 months old in July 2008.

Here we go:

On the first I wrote that Our Stimulus Check Arrived and shared what we’d be spending it on. On the second I gave an Electricity Update for June’s [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

What To Do If You've Been Labeled As Spam by Akismet

August 1, 2010: This post has been updated with new information resulting from an email conversation from Alex at Automattic, the creators of Akismet. It seems I made some incorrect assumptions on how Akismet works, so I would like to correct that information now. Following my original post you will find a few more [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Yakezie Alexa Challenge Roundup

Today it’s my turn to round up the Yakezie blogs.  I only had one blogger send an entry so I scooted around the Internet looking for interesting posts from bloggers in the group.

20s Money shares a history lesson with: World War II Did Not Lead America Out of Depression.

Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Yakezie Roundup On Its Way

I had planned to post the Yakezie Roundup early this morning, but have had some distractions so I will have it ready to go before noon Arizona time.

Thanks for stopping by and please come back to see the roundup!

Line of Credit Increased and Late Fee Assessed

Last weekend I was paying credit cards like I always do around the 15th of the month.  I was able to log into my Chase account, but they were doing some kind of maintenance on the site and balances, the option to pay, see statements, etc. was not available for the weekend so I [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Retrieve Your Deleted Photos Using Card Recovery

During the Great Backup Accident of 2010, I ended up losing 200 to 300 photos.  I don’t take photos a lot and my camera card holds 4GB.  But lucky me, just about ten days prior to the incident my card was full and I sat down and moved a bunch of photos onto my [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

How To Get a Copy of Your Federal Tax Return

When I lost my data last week, I was a little freaked out over having lost our tax returns, since I had neglected to print out a hard copy.

I’ve always admired those folks who have paper-free offices and would love to cut down on my paper collection. Unfortunately,  I always seem to get [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Write 5000 Times In Notepad - Do Your Backups

Remember to Backup Your Data!

Today’s True Confession is about computer backups.  We all know to do them, but how dedicated are you to keeping your data backed up?    I’ll go first.  I suck at doing routine backups. That’s one reason why I decided to sign on with Carbonite.

However, as it turns out, I excel so highly [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]