All posts by Mrs. Accountability

A New Place to Share My True Confessions

OODA Spotlight, True Confessions
Over the weekend I checked out a new website called Spendster.org, a place to confess your True Confessions, and let the WHOLE WORLD know how much money you've wasted on JUNK. I've watched a few of the videos and I can relate to a few, unfortunately. Although I must say the money I've wasted has been buying discounted, clearanced, or from yard sales and thrift stores. I have a terrible habit of buying something on sale or clearance as a… Read the rest

Carnivals October 21st, 2008

Carnivals
Today two of my posts were included in carnivals this week. Weed Soup was accepted at the Make It From Scratch carnival, hosted by the delightful 11th Heaven's Homemaking Haven. And my post Hate Weeds? Don't Kill Them, Eat Them! was accepted at the Festival of Frugality, hosted by the Mighty Bargain Hunter. Thanks for the hosts for including my posts!! Yours Truly, Thank you for visiting Out of Debt Again! Subscribe to receive free email or RSS notifications and… Read the rest

Credit Scores 2008

credit cards
I checked my credit scores just over a year ago. I got an email recently that said it was time for my free credit report again. I haven't done that yet, but last week I read about a place, CreditKarma where you can get your estimated credit score free. Here's what it said: Here's my scores last year: I did a little more research and Raymond over at Money Blue Book says CreditKarma uses a different scoring methodology. Raymond's post… Read the rest

Phishing Email from Bank of America

My Two Cents
At the end of the day on Thursday I was preparing my computer for being taken from me. We are getting new computers, and our IT manager assures me the new one will be even better than my current one. Our previous IT manager would buy computers or rather give out computers based on need. For example, if the person only needed basic things on the computer, like Microsoft Office, they wouldn't get the maximum of RAM the computer could… Read the rest