Category Archives: Money

My Free Roll of Paper Towels

saving money
Years ago, when I was a stay at home mother, with lots of time on my hands, but little money, I used coupons. I also shopped several different stores, every week, to buy all the sale items. Truth be told, I got burned out on doing that after about five years. And then there was the few years we lived without a vehicle and it wasn't really possible to shop several stores. During that time we did one big shopping… Read the rest

Life Insurance

spending money
This relates to money in a way, since if I die, someone's going to get some money since I pay life insurance. I say “someone” because at the moment my beneficiary is my mother. I am trying to get the beneficiary changed to my husband, but I'm not sure where my policy is at. Therefore, I don't know my policy number. I signed up with Liberty Life Insurance Company at least seven years ago. I moved shortly after that and… Read the rest

Watch Your Deductions

spending money
Whoops! My apologies. I promised to post this yesterday, but we had a little crisis going on last night. One of our neighbor's children was left home alone and we brought him home for the evening until Grandma finally got home around 8pm. I have been doing double duty at work, shadowing my boss to learn her job, so I can continue converting our manual bookkeeping to electronic. Combine that with my Internet connection at work was on and off… Read the rest

Past Due Child Support

spending money
Mr. A and I have a very unusual child support situation. He owes me child support. However, since we are remarried, any support he pays comes right back to the two of us. For a few years during our divorce, having sole custody of our children, I was on welfare. Our oldest child has Down Syndrome and it was necessary for me to be home to care for him. Mr. A fell behind on child support for a period of… Read the rest