All posts by Mrs. Accountability

Save Money Getting Your DBA – Doing Business As

business tips, Making Progress
As you know, I live in the state of Arizona. An acquaintance of Mr. A's has been encouraging him to get a “DBA” and was even so kind as to print out an application he found on the Internet. “It's only $115, Mr. A and, and, it'll protect you!” Mr. A wondered what he would be protected from, and I wondered why he needed to have a DBA. As is his custom, he left it up to me to figure… Read the rest

Credit Card Acceptance Update

credit cards
I applied for five new credit cards the other day. The reason why I applied for so many is because the last time I needed to do a balance transfer the card limited me to only $4000 when the amount I needed to roll over was higher than that. Plus, I was hoping to get a card that we could use for getting cash back since we spend so much money on gasoline, up to $1600 some months. Yesterday, two… Read the rest

Homemade Bread

frugal
Tricia over at Blogging Away Debt has been making bread lately, and I was inspired to pull out our breadmaker and make a loaf myself. Tricia said in her first post that she figured the loaf cost less than store bought, but today she factored in how much electricity her oven costs along with her ingredients. As Mr. A, AJ and I were playing a board game after church, it dawned on me that Tricia is probably using little packets… Read the rest

Cancelled GeoCities – Finally!

saving money
I forgot to cancel my GeoCities site, but I finally sat down to work on our finances last night and REMEMBERED, because there it was again, charged to my account. So right away I went to GeoCities and after searching for a while found where to go to downgrade to a free site. Two things I'm losing at this point 1) I can no longer FTP, but that's okay I don't need to, and 2) If I don't upgrade the… Read the rest