I first heard about the expensive Coach bags over at a blog that has since been taken down – Jim over at My Debt Blog last year mentioned his wife wanted another Coach bag for Christmas. Then at church a couple of weeks ago, one of the young ladies there was talking about her new Coach bag that her Grandma was giving her for her birthday. This is all she wanted, and it was the only thing Grandma was going… Read the rest

Can you believe the price of bread from the store? Over four dollars a loaf for some types! Goodness!  I don't really eat much bread, but Mr. A likes to have sandwich bread on hand for sandwiches.  He always tries to buy bread that is on sale, or at least the cheapie store brand pretend wheat – you know the kind that looks like white bread but it's brown colored? I love fresh baked bread, but I don't make it… Read the rest

I haven't had too many vacations in my life. When I was growing up I was the oldest of seven children and frankly we couldn't afford to go on vacation.  I remember one time – when there were only five children, the youngest an infant – we were piled into my stepfather's bright red-orange  Chevy Vega and driven to visit his parents who lived in California. I don't remember too much about the trip, except it was a long drive… Read the rest

I'd like to share our family enchilada recipe with you. My mom started making these when I was a young child, when we lived in an area of town with mostly Hispanic families. It is one of my favorite childhood meals.  Funny About Money probably remembers the old Food City over on Buckeye Road.  My grandparents lived over at 23rd Avenue and Mohave, but shopped Food City exclusively, as did my mother.  Food City didn't cater to the Hispanic community… Read the rest