Category Archives: spending money

Deeper Into Debt Because Of Child Support

We're going deeper into debt. I knew it was going to happen… The money is going to pay child support that my husband owes me.  We remarried but there was outstanding child support owed to the state so we are now both responsible for it. I forgave the amount that I could, but there is still several thousand that we have to pay. Here's what our debt looks like as of February 23, 2008: Yesterday I called two lawyers that… Read the rest

Helping Family Out Financially

I've mentioned my sister's phone bill being charged to me a couple of times on this blog. Here's the skinny on that particular scenario. The main problem is my sister has really bad credit, and when she wanted to get a cell phone for business purposes back in 2001, she asked if I would get the phone for her in my name, and she'd pay the bill. I agreed to do that for her. I acknowledge that part of the… Read the rest

Life Insurance

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

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