At the end of the day on Thursday I was preparing my computer for being taken from me. We are getting new computers, and our IT manager assures me the new one will be even better than my current one. Our previous IT manager would buy computers or rather give out computers based on [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Do you stop to render aid for strangers on the freeway with flat tires? Do you pick up hitchhikers? Do you give money to the people standing with signs as you get off the highway? Do you give money to homeless people?

Every once in a while I see a car pulled over [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I don’t shop dollar stores very often. When I do, I make sure I’m actually in a “DOLLAR” store. You know, the ones that actually have everything for a buck? Some so called “dollar stores” have everything priced in increments of dollars. But if I’m after cheap quality merchandise, I expect to pay ONE [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Apparently there’s some weird phenomenon about finding dimes.

When Mr. A and I run errands together, and sometimes we go to three or four stores in one day, almost every single store we go to, every single time, he finds a dime. I have found a dime or quarter or penny every once in [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I wonder if learning to juggle balls, bowling pins, or maybe even flaming torches would help refine my skill at juggling our finances?

It often feels like I’m juggling, and I fear one day the balls will all come crashing down, I’ll trip on one and fall, landing on them and mashing them in [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

You know – the honest truth is I actually hate housework. But if there’s something I HAVE to do, like sit down and put receipts into Quicken, well you know, the dishwater’s cooling and I really need to get those dishes washed. And the floor needs swept and mopping, too. Oh, the dishes have [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

When I opened a new checking account recently, with the bank I’ve been with for eleven years, the gal who helped me out gave me her business card and told me she’d be my “personal banker”. What a novel idea, one which I’d never experienced before.

This branch does seem to go the extra [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

If I order something for someone else who doesn’t use the Internet, and I go through Ebates or MyPoints, am I stealing from that person by taking the rebates or points for myself?

As I mentioned in earlier posts, I recently started using Ebates and MyPoints again. I used them faithfully years ago, when [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]