My mom called me a couple of days ago, wanting to fill me in on all the details about the Economic Stimulus Payment. She told me even if you didn't make any money last year, you can still fill out a Form 1040A and get a check. She told me to be sure to fill one out for my oldest son (he is disabled) as he was eligible as well. She told me she was going to help my youngest… Read the rest

I've noticed an interesting phenomenon when talking to people in real life about debt. Generally they have more debt than we do, and the comments always similar, “That's nothing. I wish I only had $10,000 in debt. Try having $35,000 in debt.” The implication seems to be that I'm fussing about nothing. As if we have no right to work at paying down my debt, since it's so much less than the other person's debt. I haven't talked about debt… Read the rest

In addition to being sick, my online time has been seriously limited since March 3rd, as we have once again been invaded by some alien software which is hogging our bandwidth. We live out in the country and the only high speed internet is satellite. The least expensive option through our ISP is $49.95 a month. We're limited to 7500MB worth of downloads. That's roughly 250MB per day. My son and I are the only ones that use this internet… Read the rest