4 Ways to Use Up Vegetables So You Don’t Waste Food

Amanda over at Frugal Confessions recently wrote on the topic of wasting food in a post called Waste Not Want Not Baking Catastrophes and Food Waste in Our Household.  As I began making a comment in response, I realized I have a lot to say about wasting food so I decided to put together [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Costco Business Order and Delivery

About a month ago I persuaded my boss to let me try out Costco business delivery.  All of these years I’ve been shopping in person for things like candy bars, rubber gloves, 10 pound cans of green beans and cases of Coca-Cola.   This kind of shopping takes up quite a bit of time, precious [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Why I Would Never Recommend 1&1 as a Webhost Provider

hand knitted scarf

Years ago I was part of an email list of women who had many things in common, one being we were into fiber arts.  Many of us were knitting, and someone came up with the idea to sell our scarves online. We started out with a very rudimentary website, which I put dozens [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

How the 2011 Tax Changes Affected My Take Home Pay

One of my many tasks for my employer is to process the payroll and print out checks.  Since we are all salaried and paid twice a month, this is usually an easy and -  dare I say – almost boring task since usually everything stays the same month after month. However, the first payroll [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Carnival of Money Stories #89 Happy Birthday Dr. King Edition

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Welcome, this is the 89th Edition of the Carnival of Money Stories!

Today the United States observes the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In honor of Dr. King, I’d like to share some of the quotes he made over his lifetime starting with probably the most famous one:

I have a [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Carnival of Money Stories Here Next Week

Hello out there!

I am happy to be hosting the Carnival of Money Stories here at Out of Debt Again next Monday. If you are a blogger, please take a moment and look through your posts for the last month and submit any money stories for inclusion into the carnival.

If you are new [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Easy Baked Goods Recipes: Jumbo Banana Nut Breakfast Muffins

Banana Nut Muffins

How many of you buy a Starbucks coffee and one of those giant muffins every day?   Probably not too many of you, especially if you’re into personal finance.  But I bet you’d like to buy one of those giant muffins every once in a while. Well, guess what? You can make [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Love Drop Is Starting With Jill in Chicago

Love Drop Logo

Love Drop Starts Now

J. Money of Budgets are Sexy and Nate St. Pierre of It Starts with Us are the founders of a new project, a new way to make a change in someone’s life – it’s called: Love Drop. Love Drop is a micro-giving network of people banded together and [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Review: Sparks Report by Kosmo

Sparks by Kosmo - Web Consulting with a Twist

New Service – Sparks by Kosmo

I first heard about Kosmo’s new service called Sparks over at The Digerati Life.  I am always looking to improve my site and I thought it would be helpful to have some input on how Out of Debt Again looks and functions through someone else’s eyes. At [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I Love Amazon Prime and Thanks for Shopping Through My Amazon Link

I would never have sprung for Amazon Prime on my own.

But my son AJ doesn’t worry about money as much as his dear old mother does and he kept it after his free trial last January. I used his account a few times to get a couple of things shipped overnight but we [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]