I wasn’t eligible to sign up for the $25 bonus from ING Direct because I did it many years ago and closed the account.

But I did sign Mr. A up for an account to get the bonus. Now he’s received an offer by email if he signs up to invest in stocks, he [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

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Whew. Trent over at The Simple Dollar has decided to go on a ONE YEAR moratorium on books. He’s not going to buy any books for ONE YEAR. OUCH. That seems like such a long time to put oneself under the law!

I find that I do the same kind of thing that Trent [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Day 7 – $6400

I’ve joined Millionaire Mommy in a 30 Day Abundance Exercise.

Oh, this is getting a little difficult for me. I just don’t want much. Well, I guess with today’s money we would buy the materials needed to build an addition onto our home. We bought an air conditioner that would [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Paid Twice has written two posts now about having some “wiggle” room in the budget.

I admire PT for being so focused on debt reduction, I recognize myself in her. But that was many years ago. I sometimes want to kick myself for not having that drive, the desire to be debt-free so strongly. [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I remember when our income was so meager that I didn’t bother to look to see how much something cost, because I didn’t have even five extra dollars to buy it. When more money started coming in, I remember the astonishment when looking at an item and thinking I’d done without that little thing [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

My mom called me a couple of days ago, wanting to fill me in on all the details about the Economic Stimulus Payment. She told me even if you didn’t make any money last year, you can still fill out a Form 1040A and get a check. She told me to be sure to [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon when talking to people in real life about debt. Generally they have more debt than we do, and the comments always similar, “That’s nothing. I wish I only had $10,000 in debt. Try having $35,000 in debt.”

The implication seems to be that I’m fussing about nothing. As if [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

In addition to being sick, my online time has been seriously limited since March 3rd, as we have once again been invaded by some alien software which is hogging our bandwidth.

We live out in the country and the only high speed internet is satellite. The least expensive option through our ISP is $49.95 [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]