Hoarding vs. Clean House - Are Both Shows About Hoarding?

I’ve been a fan of the show Clean House since early 2009.  I don’t watch a lot of television but one week while home sick I felt like doing nothing else but lying in bed and watching television.  I came across Clean House.  For a while I watched it every weekend whenever I could [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Payday Loans No Longer Available In Arizona

On July 1st, pay day lenders charging triple digit interest rates will not be allowed to operate in the state of Arizona.  I say good riddance to these crooks!

I once highlighted a new blogger who had entered the vicious cycle of a payday loan.  I never liked the idea of pay day loans, [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Dang It T-Mobile, I'm NOT Happy!

Yesterday morning Mr. A called me to find out which account he should use to take out $250 cash for a great deal he’d found on 4′ x 8′ plywood that was 5/8″ thick.

I’ll tell you more about this deal, but first let me tell you why T-Mobile has me annoyed.

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Write Your Checks Correctly

I know many people don’t use checks very often, but a vast majority of Mr. A’s customers write him a check. We have only had one person ask to pay by credit card, and she ended up using a check in the end.

Recently we had a customer write a check and in the [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Nikon’s Doing Me Wrong – My Coolpix L100 Doesn’t Have Fireworks Mode

I bought a Nikon Coolpix L100 through Amazon on Thanksgiving. I received the camera a few days later, and was pretty happy with it.  Then I discovered, in spite of reading reviews all over the Internet and seeing it on Nikon’s site with my own two eyes, my most favorite mode was missing.  Fireworks.

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Transcription: Changing Hands Bookstore Q & A with Pioneer Woman

Transcribed from our time with Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman on Thursday evening, November 5th, 2009 at Changing Hands bookstore in Tempe, Arizona.

Hi guys! Thank you for coming. Good night. [Laughter] This is not my typical Thursday evening. I’ve got to stop wearing Spanx to these things. I can’t get a deep breath. [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Red Roof Inn – A Thumbs Down Review

Today my Pumpkin Pie ice cream was included in the Make it from Scratch carnival. Go on over and check out the other great entries included there today!

AJ and I stayed at a Red Roof Inn over the weekend. We were attending our church’s annual conference in the big city and didn’t want [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Q&A with Mrs. Accountability

Today I’m opening the floor to my dear readers. Ask me any question, and I’ll try to answer it. Maybe there’s something you’ve always wondered, but have never asked. Maybe you want advice for a particular issue.  Maybe you have a question about blogging.  Or about Excel.  Perhaps you’d like to ask me to [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Helping Family Members

If you are visiting from the 22nd Carnival of Money Stories 2 hosted at True Adventures in Money Hacking, welcome to Out of Debt Again! Thank you Wren for including my post in today’s carnival!

Recently in the personal finance blogosphere there have been some posts about helping family members financially, so I thought [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Avoid Swine Flu – Wash Your Hands!

If you watch or listen to the news, you’ll hear a lot about H1N1 aka Swine Flu, but you can do things to lower your chances of getting this or any seasonal influenza.  The main one, which your momma should have taught you, is to wash your hands!

As I’m sure you know, there [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]