All posts by Mrs. Accountability

Garden Gleanings

frugal, gardening
My first garden harvest for this season – Bright Lights Swiss Chard. We steamed the Swiss Chard and had it with butter and salt. Look at the beautiful stems! Red, yellow, pink and white plants came up; the only color that didn't germinate was orange. Beautiful, delicious, and nutritious! Looseleaf lettuce and radishes, and a few leaves of Swiss Chard. If you look closely you can see I also harvested some purslane. The above harvest cleaned and made into a… Read the rest

Some Success on eBay

Money
I put a few things up for sale on eBay last week. My auctions ended Friday. I listed eight items. A dress which I never expected to sell went first with Buy It Now for $9.99. I made $64.97 gross. $7.63 in eBay fees. $3.08 in PayPal fees. $20.10 for shipping costs. $34.16 net. Not too shabby. But I also probably spent about three hours taking pictures, listing the items, packaging them, etc. So about $10 per hour. Mr. A… Read the rest

Busy Week

Just Stuff, spending money
It's been a very busy week and the weekend is proving to be even busier. Our church is hosting our first annual conference and I'm helping out in various areas. We'll be attending several teachings throughout the day, and tomorrow morning. Thankfully the conference is just 40 miles from where we live so there isn't too much expense involved (aside from gas which thankfully has gone down to $2.45 per gallon). We've had some more expenses this week, Mr. A's… Read the rest

Our COBRA Insurance Costs Are Going Down

saving money
I just called to find out if Mr. A's COBRA amount will go down now that AJ turned 19 and is no longer eligible to be covered on his policy. So our insurance rates might go down from $239.20 to ??? I think maybe by half or more. Anything will be better than what it was. Yours Truly, Thank you for visiting Out of Debt Again! Subscribe to receive free email or RSS notifications and don't miss anything! OUT OF… Read the rest