Christmas is Coming – Two Months Away!

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I cannot believe it is almost time for Christmas!! What do you do for Christmas? Do you send Christmas cards or photo cards? Do you buy gifts for everyone in your family, extended family and friends and coworkers? That can run into a lot of money. We've seen it happen in the past on personal finance blogs. Did you do it last year? Do you have plans to do it again? Did you save money all year long for Christmas… Read the rest

New Computers At Work

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We got new computers at work this week, thanks to an extremely generous benefactor. We hired a company to make the change; they started last Friday so every day this week I've done nothing but work at getting my computer back to where I need it to be. Changing settings, loading programs, transferring registrations from the old computer to the new one, figuring out how to make our financial program work with the Vista operating system and on and on.… Read the rest

A New Plan for Our Budget

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It's been over a year since I have been trying to batten down the hatches here at Out of Debt Again. Meaning trying to get our family onto a budget. It's hard when I'm the only one dealing with the money because I use Quicken and Excel spreadsheets. Mr. A doesn't really get into this money stuff and it feels like to me that we don't keep to our budget like I think we could or should. So last week… Read the rest

A New Place to Share My True Confessions

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Over the weekend I checked out a new website called Spendster.org, a place to confess your True Confessions, and let the WHOLE WORLD know how much money you've wasted on JUNK. I've watched a few of the videos and I can relate to a few, unfortunately. Although I must say the money I've wasted has been buying discounted, clearanced, or from yard sales and thrift stores. I have a terrible habit of buying something on sale or clearance as a… Read the rest