Grocery Shopping Series Part I: Cheaper Ground Beef

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In this series I'm going to tell you how to get ground beef cheaper, which is actually higher quality than standard ground beef. When I was six years old, my mom worked as a meat wrapper for the butcher shop in a local grocery store. All my life she's taken the sale cuts of meat to the butcher to have them ground. Most people don't seem to know that's an option – or maybe they are afraid to ask? Have… Read the rest

Order Your Checks By Mail

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Do you still order your checks through your bank? You can save quite a bit of money if you order them yourself. A friend of mine has been collecting the inserts from the past few Sunday papers and asked if I could help her find the best deal. First let me say that it would be much easier to just use the inserts from the paper, than try to figure it out on the websites! I mistakenly thought I'd be… Read the rest

Monthly Report March 2008

Monthly Reports
I cut our credit card payments down to $150 each this month. We are in hoard mode due to Mr. A's new business getting off the ground. Word of mouth is traveling and so far he's keeping busy. We spent over our budget on gasoline, but we are still working out the details on keeping Mr. A's business expenses gasoline on a different card. It's been a very busy month. I'm reading all kinds of books about customer service, and… Read the rest