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47 More Things We Hate Spending Our Hard Earned Money On

By Mrs. Accountability, on Monday, March 26th, 2012

I Hate Parking from Aaron Jacobs at Flickr

In the first week of this month I participated in Blogelina’s 100 comments on my blog post event. I composed a post entitled 10 Things We Hate Spending Our Hard Earned Money On and I actually had only nine items. I asked my readers and new visitors to please comment and let me [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Accepting Credit Cards in a Small Business

By Mrs. Accountability, on Friday, March 23rd, 2012

My husband’s business is still alive, but we’ve had to make some big changes. For one thing, we have decided that the distance he is willing to drive must be reduced dramatically. From the beginning when he started his business, he would take any job no matter how far away. On [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

9 Ways to Avoid Shopping Sprees and Save Money

By Guest Author, on Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Let’s face it. Shopping sure is tempting. You cruise along a Wal-Mart aisle, spot that latest version of Halo 3 you always wanted, and bam! It’s in your shopping cart. Turn an aisle, see a nice piece of pottery that might fit well with your wife’s gardening collection, and it too is in your [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I Just Lost $7,889

By Mrs. Accountability, on Monday, March 19th, 2012

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So yeah, about that nearly $8000 that I recently lost. Well, I guess you can’t really say that I lost it because it was technically taken from me by my employer. Wait, that’s not exactly correct either. My employer would have been happy to keep showing how much vacation I had accrued but our [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

How to Meet Your Financial Goals

By Mrs. Accountability, on Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Everyone has goals and objectives financially, whether they know it or not. Maybe you’d like to retire early, or maybe you’d just like to retire at all! Maybe you want to own your own home. Maybe you have a dream car that you would love to purchase some day, or you want to pay [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Arizona Use Tax for Online Purchases

By Mrs. Accountability, on Monday, March 12th, 2012

Some Arizona taxpayers may get a surprise while preparing taxes this year. A new line has been added to our income tax form which requires you to state the amount of your online purchases and you are expected to pay use tax for online purchases.

Arizona has decided to get serious with enforcing a [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

10 Things We Hate Spending Our Hard Earned Money On

By Mrs. Accountability, on Thursday, March 1st, 2012

It’s a fact of life that most of us have to work to pay bills, the mortgage or rent, food and entertainment and everything else. Most of the time I can dull the pain which comes from having to turn my money over to everyone else, I’ve grown accustomed to it, but some [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

The Post Office Will Text Message Me When Mail Is In My PO Box

By Mrs. Accountability, on Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

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Several months ago I signed up for a United States post office box. My main reason in procuring the box was to use for blogging purposes. Therefore I don’t plan to use the box for much and don’t anticipate receiving a lot of mail. I decided to check the box [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]