Free Excel Gasoline Calculator – How Much Gas Do You Use?

automobiles
Looking for a way to calculate your gasoline usage?  Look no further, download my free Excel spreadsheet calculator.  If you don't have Microsoft Excel this calculator also works with OpenOffice which is a free office suite similar to Microsoft Office. My daily commute to work is 100 miles round trip, and I always set aside the amount of money I need for gasoline at each payday.  For example, one of my pay days is the last day of the month. … Read the rest

Student Loan Forgiveness Program

time is money
One of my coworkers forwarded an email to me last week and I thought it might be of interest to those of you out there with student loans. You may qualify, or maybe you know of someone else who could benefit. The following is from the email that was forwarded to me: The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 established a new public service loan forgiveness program. This program discharges any remaining debt after 10 years of full-time… Read the rest

Oh Shoot! Overdrafted Our Checking!

True Confessions
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. I wasn't sure if a payment was due for Mr. A's COBRA; I wasn't sure if last month was the last payment, or this month. A call on Monday confirmed it was this month, so I had a… Read the rest

August 2009 Garden Update

gardening
Most of my garden is dead due to the heat this month. The average for August was 94°F. The highest temperature was 115.6°F and the low was 65.3°F. This desolate barren bed used to be the squash bed. I couldn't use this bed throughout the summer.  I had a brainstorm last spring about using pallets with chicken wire stapled to the bottom as a way to keep out the gophers that had invaded.  It worked great during the cool weather,… Read the rest