Posts with the tag ‘Purchases’

New car and a pleasant visit to the BMV

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Are you probably already read on Facebook, I brought a 2000 Honda Civic on Tuesday. I brought the Civic for close to the average price in area minus the cost of half an exhaust system and new brakes–which the seller and I both agreed would the car would need in the coming months. It’s dark [...]

Hard drive crash and file corruption stole my Saturday

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Last night, my computer begin to freeze for 10 seconds every five minutes or so. I have had similar problems before and knew it was the hard disk. The last time, I had scanned and fixed corrupt files using Windows and this had fixed the problem. I restarted my computer and it said “Cannot read [...]

Who does money control more: the saver or the spender

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Various topics break the surface during our small group discussion on Sunday nights. As typical with any Bible study guide, there are some topics that are bigger problems (e.g.-sins, bad habits, etc) for the group as a whole than others. We are all either newly weds or parents with small children and are more likely [...]

Sounds like you are there: Logitech X-540

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Rachel and I just purchased a Logitech X-540 5.1 speaker system from Amazon.com. Rachel originally sent me to the store to buy her computer speakers. Well, I looked around and picked one out for $30 from Fry’s Electronics. It was a 20 watt system with 2 speakers and a sub-woofer. I then found the Logitech [...]

Free Household Budget Spreadsheet Template

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Money is one of the greatest causes (more specifically greatest symptom) for divorce. At the pre-marital counseling with our pastor, he asked my fiance and I to create a monthly budget. I recommend that you have a budget and revise that budget annually. I’ve created a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet that you can use to “run [...]

Baskin Robins: 31 Scoop Night Wednesday, May 2nd

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

31 Scoop Night Wednesday, May 2nd 5pm to 10pmThe National Fallen Firefighters Foundation honors Americas fallen heroes by sharing how they lived and what they meant to their loved ones, their communities, and our nation.
Baskin-Robbins is proud to support this worthy cause. We encourage you to learn more about the foundation by visiting its website: [...]

$50 return on E-bates

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Well, we just broke $50 in Ebates checks. That’s over a period of a year, but hey, that’s not to bad for 20 minutes of work. I have used Ebates at Target, Staples, and Netflix.
Ebates earns sales commission from merchants you buy items from. Most sites keep the money, but Ebates turn the commission into [...]

I’m officially done with 2006 taxes today

Monday, February 12th, 2007

I just finished doing my spouse’s taxes this afternoon. Everything was e-file, so all that was sent in was a signature card for one of us. And it was all free, yes, free. You can use any of these business to e-file your federal return for free. The one I picked though doesn’t file your [...]

Coupons and deals

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Hello, my fellow coupon clippers. As you have probably guessed from the appendix of discounts on my wedding’s gift registry page. I’m all about promotional deals. Marketers lose money on me all the time.
For credit card promotions, the easiest thing to do is to Google “credit card deals $100.” Every few months for the past [...]

What do February 15th, November 1st, and December 26th have in common?

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Candy is 50% off in the pharmacy on the first floor of my office building, of course!
There’s just enough time between November 1st, December 26th, and February 15th for me to eat $5 dollars of 50% candy. Too bad their isn’t more candy on display for St. Patrick’s Day,
since that is about the time I [...]


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