Where In The World Have You Been?

Just Stuff
I saw this post first over at Funny About Money's, and then at Revanche's A Gai Shan Life and thought I'd share here. I have done hardly any traveling in my 47 years, and Virginia, Illinois and Colorado were states we happened to be in for our vacation to Washington, DC. The visit to Illinois was brief, three hours in the airport.  Colorado was even briefer, about half an hour. But hey, I can still say I've been there, right?… Read the rest

Add New Account How To Use Quicken 2010 Series Part II

Tech Stuff
It is easy to add accounts to Quicken, and I will show you how to do it in this post which is Part II of my series How to Use Quicken 2010. Although it is easy once you know what you are doing, it is confusing due to the choices given by Quicken.  I will include screenshots to make it easier to follow my instructions. Step One.  Start up Quicken.  Go to File and select New Quicken File. Step Two.… Read the rest

Cheap Date Ideas

frugal
Last year I wrote about our second anniversary date and funny enough as it turns out we had a similar anniversary date for our third anniversary this week.   Mr. A wanted to go into the big city to an event he'd been looking forward to attending, and on our way back home we stopped by a Savers. I needed to pick up a few blouses since the only tops I currently own are short sleeved and it has finally cooled… Read the rest

Credit Card Report October 2010

CC Reports
Well shoot. It appears the last time I made a report on our credit card debt was back in April!   Time sure does fly! In April, our credit card debt was at $20,731.85.  I am quite pleased to report that we continue to go steadily pay that amount down, and are now at $15,537.02. That is a decrease of $5194.83 in six months. It always shocks me to see how much the amount has decreased because that looks like we're… Read the rest