// 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...]

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 [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

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, [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

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 [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]