Blast From The Past - September 2008

Welcome to this month’s edition of Blast from the Past!   Every month in this series I go back in time by two years and share the best posts of the month.   Let’s go, shall we?

On September 2nd, 2008, I wrote about our Electricity Usage in August 2008, a big topic here at Out [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Update on the Income Tax Transcript

Seven weeks ago I told you about my experience in ordering the transcript of our income tax return.  With that post I included a scanned image of said transcript to show others what I’d received from the IRS.  I complained that this is not what I was promised in conversation with the IRS “This [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Top Referrers August 2010

Many thanks to my top referrers for the month of August 2010 (according to Google Analytics). Thank you very much!

Ultimate Money Blog Funny About Money Wisebread Little House in the Valley I Pick Up Pennies Graceful Retirement Enemy of Debt Girl with the Red Balloon Grocery Coupon Guide Invest It Wisely Budgeting in [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

What It Costs Companies to Keep An Employee On the Payroll

Political Calculations linked to the post that I submitted to the Festival of Frugality a couple of weeks ago and in taking a look around the site I found this interesting calculator in a post called: How Much Does it Cost to Employ You?

The calculator allows you to enter some numbers which calculate [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Three More Days to Enter My Giveaway

Hello all,

Today, tomorrow and Monday are the last three days you can enter.

Remember all you are required to do in order to enter is to subscribe to my RSS feed, view my blog through a feed reader and use the form in the original post to submit the secret code.

If you [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Review: EA Sports Active Personal Trainer for Wii

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I like exercising with the Wii by Nintendo.  It’s an easy way for me to get in a workout without having to pay for a membership, feel compelled to buy exercise outfits (although I did learn by trial and error that I must wear a sports brassiere while running, heeee), [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

How I Feel About Money Today

Following J. Money’s post from last Friday, I thought I’d share my answers to the same questions here:

1. The most I’ve spent this last week was on _____.

The most I’ve spent this last week was on a brand new ASUS VW266H 25.5″ Widescreen LCD Monitor.  After the rebate and shipping it came to $251.81.  [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Don't Go To Twitter Until It's Fixed

UPDATE: It looks like Twitter is fixed as of 6:50am PDT Tuesday September 21.

So my husband just called to tell me there is some hacking thing going on with twitter.com. From the Los Angeles Times blog:

Thousands of Twitter users are dealing with what seems to be a security flaw that is causing [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

7 Reasons You Need A Widescreen LCD Monitor

True Confession: Last week I invested in this ASUS VW266H 25.5-Inch Widescreen LCD Monitor. I have been using two monitors at work for the last year and a half, and have been telling myself I just don’t need a new monitor at home.  My old huge heavy 19″ CRT monitor was working just fine.  [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Christian Personal Finance is Giving Away an IPod Touch

Bob over at Christian Personal Finance is giving away an IPod Touch.

He reports you can do the following with this newest IPod Touch:

HD Video Recording Facetime (video conferencing) Play your music (after all it is an iPod) Take Pictures Play games Watch TV and Movies Store and view all your photos Browse [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]