This latest receipt wins the prize for being the longest receipt ever. It’s almost six feet long.

Mr. A has been stocking up again… he wants to be prepared in case anything goes wrong… this latest receipt is 196 cans of tuna in water on sale for forty-four cents a can.  He went through the 15 Items Only register, because he had four closed cases.  … click here to continue reading The Winning Receipt!

I was watching a few minutes of Wife Swap the other day (I only catch a few minutes here and there since I rarely watch any television at all) and one family was a homeschooling family and the children were given allowance each week but they had to divide it up into various categories, one of them being taxes. The parents said that dad has to pay taxes on the … click here to continue reading Children and Allowance

Thank you to everyone who commented. I will be donating $10 to the Red Cross on behalf of my readers at Out of Debt Again.

Come on y’all!  Please comment – I would like to donate more than five dollars on your behalf!

I’ve made this post sticky, meaning it will stay at the top of my blog until February 14th. Please look below this post for newer content.  Thank you … click here to continue reading Help for Haiti – $1 Per Comment

I was reading over at No More Spending’s site about Laura’s five year plan.

Wow. What a concept.  I have never actually written down any kind of plan for my future.   I have a loose idea of what we want to do, obviously paying off our debt would be at the top of the list.  And I have some ideas on what we need to do for Mr. A’s businesses as … click here to continue reading Five Year Financial Plan

Yesterday I shared the reasons why I keep my receipts. Now I’d like to share how I store my receipts.

I typically save my receipts long past the time I record them.  I used to toss all receipts into a shoebox but in 2008 I began using #10 envelopes to keep the receipts sorted by month. The receipts don’t go into the envelopes, until they have been entered into … click here to continue reading How I Store My Receipts

On Sunday my post showed how many receipts I needed to enter into Quicken. Commenter Ken from Money Making Sense shared that he throws his receipts away once he’s entered them into his checkbook.  Kudos to Ken for saving his receipts long enough to record them,  some folks don’t bother keeping them for any length of time.

Top 7 reasons why I save my receipts:

Don’t want the item – although usually … click here to continue reading My Top 7 Reasons to Save Receipts

OH! What a relief it is! I have finally found an accountant. I found her by doing a Google search for accountants in Arizona; I emailed her, and she emailed back. That is a good sign! We talked for forty minutes on Friday, and she answered several of my questions. She charges $65 an hour for phone consultation and tech support for Quickbooks, which is the biggest area in … click here to continue reading This Time I Really Did Find an Accountant!

A friend’s financial situation got had me thinking about myself, as these things often do. Because we are basically living from paycheck to paycheck, with no savings or retirement plan. We’re not even chipping away at our debt very fast.

I’ve never really been too concerned about saving for retirement. I know, I know, this is a personal finance blog, what am I thinking?   I guess when your own parents don’t … click here to continue reading Living From Paycheck to Paycheck

And… rolling in the credit card debt.  I know it’s usually the last thing that anyone ever advises, but having given it a lot of thought over the past year I believe we can make it work for us as an effective debt reduction strategy.

I’m a little blown away by what our credit union can swing.  We currently owe owe $48K on our mortgage, with twenty three years left … click here to continue reading It Looks Like We Might Be Refinancing Our Home