All posts by Mrs. Accountability

High Speed Internet !!

My Shops, saving money
A husband and wife team arrived this morning shortly after 8am to install our new Internet service. By 9:30 they were done and off the property. AJ and I performed upload and download speed tests at toast.net before our service was switched. As I mentioned in an earlier post, upload speeds are typically much slower than the download. Our upload speed is almost three times as fast. Our download speed (wow, pages load sooooo fast now!) is four times faster.… Read the rest

Check Your Automatic Payment Addresses

credit cards
Gosh darnit, I forget who said this in their blog recently, but someone mentioned if you make automatic payments using a service such as BillPay, make sure the address hasn't changed. AJ and I went to Q&A at our place of worship last Sunday night and on the way home I stopped to fill up the tank. $3.53/gallon. I'm glad it's going down a little. I left home without either of my two main bank cards. I happened to have… Read the rest

Time to Rollover My Credit Card Debt

OODA Spotlight
I'm not interested in playing credit card arbitrage, but it looks like I'm going to be engaging in it whether I like it or not. If you notice I updated my debt progress bars… we had to put more money onto another of my credit cards… with a nearly 15% interest rate. This happened for two reasons: 1) Mr. A bought machinery for his business which increased his business debt. Perhaps I shouldn't include his business debt since this is… Read the rest

Electricity in August 2008

electricity
We used slightly more electricity this bill than last year at this time. However, notice that our bill was for 30 days this year, but only 29 last year which actually made our daily average usage less this year than last. Again, I'd rather see it go down a little bit, than up a bunch. 07/21 to 08/20/2008 30 days On Peak Usage 1536 Kwh Off Peak Usage 2141 Total Usage 3677 Monthly Bill $416.17 Daily Average $13.87 Last year:… Read the rest