A couple of weekends ago I tackled my bedroom and was determined to get rid of as much clutter as I possibly could.   Apparently sometimes I am in a certain mood which allows me to get rid of things which I would otherwise have trouble releasing.

Another problem is sometimes I don’t have the [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Mr. A ordered a new power tool from Amazon, this item here: Makita 18-Volt Cordless 3-Piece Combo Kit.  Mr. A checked the prices at Home Depot, and Amazon’s price of $262.25 with free Super Saver Shipping was a screaming deal.  It included a regular drill, a driver drill and flashlight, two batteries, charger and [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

A couple of weeks ago I saw that Wells Fargo allows transfers to other banks, and my immediate thought was “WOW!  That’s cool! Now it will be that much easier to move money over to ING Direct!

I started the process to get that in place, since I wanted to be able to push [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

// Back in August 2009 I talked about why my credit score is important to me – it’s because we would like to refinance our home.

The offer from the credit union has no doubt changed since then, but we were contemplating rolling our credit card debt with the mortgage, along with trading in [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I mentioned the other day that Mr. A found a great deal on some plywood.  We have two projects we are working on for the business. First and most important is Mr. A’s work area, and second is my office.  Neither of us have a proper place to work. I’m squished into one corner [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I’ve never had a birthday party. Oh, maybe when I was a child with my mom and stepfather, siblings and grandparents, we’d have cake and ice cream and I’d open presents.

But I’ve never had a traditional birthday party where friends were invited.

I’ve been thinking I’d like to have a party for myself [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

One of my favorite bloggers, Funny About Money, broke and dislocated her shoulder on Monday night, and she has put out the call for guest posts as she may be restricted from blogging for some time.

If you think you might have something to help out, go to the link above and post a [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Abigail from I Pick Up Pennies and Brad from Enemy of Debt had a huge discussion in the comments section of a post by Brad called When You’re Tired of Being Broke, You’ll Start Saving. Abigail followed up with a post at her site called Controversy or just quibbling? and then Emergency Funds Yea [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I have two checking accounts and one savings account at Wells Fargo.  The first checking account was opened many years ago, maybe even as long as twenty years ago, and I use it mostly for our personal finances.

When Mr. A started his business, we decided to open an account to use for his [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]