Category Archives: Money

High Speed Internet !!

My Shops, saving money
A husband and wife team arrived this morning shortly after 8am to install our new Internet service. By 9:30 they were done and off the property. AJ and I performed upload and download speed tests at toast.net before our service was switched. As I mentioned in an earlier post, upload speeds are typically much slower than the download. Our upload speed is almost three times as fast. Our download speed (wow, pages load sooooo fast now!) is four times faster.… Read the rest

Labor Day

time is money
Happy Labor Day to all my fellow American workers. Our company provides today as a paid holiday, but I am working from home. I have been working on a project at work for the past *two* years. I'm converting our manual accounting to electronic and the program my company purchased is a good one, but an unknown to the point where it's not possible to get help via the Internet to any real extent. (Read: I can't google my question… Read the rest

Combine my Internet and Phone and Save $780/year?

plan of action, saving money
Yesterday, on the way home, I saw a local Internet provider camped out on the corner near where we live. I stopped to see what was going on, and the guy came over and said, “Let me guess, you're looking for Internet?” I told him not yet, my two year contract expires in a couple of months. He asked me who my provider was, and what tier I was on. He claims my Internet connection will be 5 times faster.… Read the rest

I Fell in a Pothole at the Mall

Just Stuff, spending money
I decided I needed to get some things returned that we'd bought and found we didn't need after all. Mr. A bought a pair of jeans from Costco in his size, but they didn't fit. They're too long for me, so I took them with me when I went into work today. Costco is so good at taking back returns. I used $10 of the cash back to pay the copay on my asthma medication from Costco Pharmacy. I also… Read the rest