I have noticed over the years that I have a bad habit of doing something when extra money comes in. For example, last month an extra $30 landed in my PayPal account. So I thought I’d go ahead and buy those Wii games that I mentioned on my spending spree. But I’d forgotten that [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]
Okay, this weekend my blog has deteriorated into the Pioneer Woman fan club that is me, Mrs. Accountability. This is totally a fluff post, and I hope my faithful readers will indulge me. Hardly anyone reads my blog on the weekends anyway, y’all are out busy with your real lives. But I promised I [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]
CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ENTERED. THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN A FEW DAYS.
Giveaway at Out of Debt Again! I’m offering a beautiful and very special cookbook to one of my visitors and it has been signed personally by the author, Ree Drummond of The Pioneer Woman Cooks! [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]
Come close, my pretties, and let me tell you a scary and financially disastrous Halloween love story.
I rarely dated during the years Mr. A and I were divorced. Getting married again was not my first priority. Being the best parent I could be was a lot more important. However, I did date a [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]
I ordered three cookbooks, one for me, one for AJ and one for my boss for a Christmas present from Amazon.com. I was so excited to see they had arrived! Two boxes. I picked up the one, opened it up and looked inside. Pulled out the plastic bags of air and thought I saw [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]
Last Monday I asked if my readers had anything to ask, so here are the answers.
Mrs. Gardener asked how my garden was doing. It’s coming along, here let me show you a picture of the delicious baby greens that are doing wonderfully. I’ve already harvested one bunch of radishes, too! I’m going to [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]
I didn’t mean to! I bought a new pencil since the old one had just a nub left in the tip. I prefer the kind that you twist and the eye liner moves up into position, as opposed to the old fashioned pencil types that you have to sharpen. I haven’t found one of [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]
This is why I’m so danged paranoid about taking our checking account down to under $200. Last weekend, our checking account showed that we had over $3000. I paid some bills, made some credit card payments and took it down to $295.28.
On Tuesday I just couldn’t wait to write up a big ol’ complaining post about what the bank did. But I had to wait to see if it really was the bank, or was it me? Turns out, it was me. AGH. But I learned something, and isn’t that what really counts? Because thankfully, [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]
When you see an envelope with Arizona Department of Revenue ATTN: Collections Division in the return address, it can have a slightly terrifying effect. I know it struck terror in my heart when I saw it. I try so darned hard to do the right thing, and sometimes still get dinged.
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