Remember how I said we were buying a car with our tax return?  Well, we changed our minds.  It doesn’t make sense to put that money into buying a car, which would be secured debt if we took out a loan, and not pay some of our credit card debt, which of course is unsecured [...]

I feel almost ashamed to admit that we now have a membership to one of those huge, impersonal warehouse stores.  I went from shopping at an organic grocery store, to shopping at a normal grocery story, to shopping a at a huge warehouse store in the matter of a few months.  I am only doing [...]

Website Recommendation:
I don’t quite remember when I started putting my financial life on my blog, but, it seems to help me when I have to report to the world wide web how I spent my money lately. First, I have to share an awesome new website I just found called www.mint.com. It is [...]

All this talk about an imminent financial depression is… depressing. I wonder though, how much worse will it get for our family? I’m working on our own financial plan to withstand the effects of George W. Bush’s economy.
Our Families Economic Plan For the Future:
1. Transfer all credit card balances to one [...]

Our wonderful government has decided that since our economy is doing so well, that we all aught to be able to afford to make the switch to digital TV this February. If you have cable or satellite TV, then you’re lucky and will likely have a smooth transition with the assistance of that company. [...]

Sick Cat
The matter of our very sick cat has seen some new developments. We ended up spending a grand total of about $600.00, give or take a bit. (We didn’t spend it so much as add it to our already insurmountable credit card debt.) For some inexplicable reason, he did not recover [...]

And I didn’t even put the hummingbird feeder out yet!

In my retelling of the most miserable day ever on my post yesterday, I forgot to mention the one bright fleeting moment. It was the moment I glanced out the window of our balcony and saw a hummingbird hovering near our wind chime. He flew up to the wind chime and tried eating [...]

A List of Things That Sucked Today:
1. Clear up something, somewhere, that I can’t write about here. It was cleared up by midday today, after a few days, but what a stressful process.
2. Call my old swindling chiropractor and negotiate a way to pay a $500.00 bill he sent me for appointments [...]

Our Weekend
Saturday, Diane and Mike came over and we went to Cassettas for lunch to celebrate Diane’s birthday. Then later we went over to the Sutters, met new people with kids that Owen played with like crazy, ate tons and tons of food, and burned brush. Sunday, we got up too late to [...]