Daily Archives: February 8, 2008

Day 160: No-Spend; Money-Back Day

Okay, I thought that no-spend days were cool but now I’ve dis­cov­ered some­thing even bet­ter!  Days when my only trans­ac­tions are money-back store returns. Costco — ($80.31) I’ll admit that I’ve expressed var­i­ous frus­tra­tions with Costco before (ie. they stopped car­ry­ing the cases of Hori­zon choco­late milk) but I have to admit that you sim­ply can­not beat [...]
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January Budget Review — Our First Complete Budget Month

Jan­u­ary marked my fourth whole month of using the YNAB soft­ware* and but only my first month of record­ing all of our house­hold expenses.  In pre­vi­ous months I’ve tracked all of my expen­di­tures, but only some of The Husband’s.  On the income side, I tracked our salaries and any sup­ple­men­tal income I brought in (ie. sur­vey income) but none [...]
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New Credit Card. Should I buy a new car?

Tues­day night, after get­ting in from the air­port just in time to grab a bite to eat, grab the kids, and dash to our local precinct in time to vote for Barack Obama, The Hus­band gave me an Amer­i­can Express appli­ca­tion he’d received in the mail.  Actu­ally, I’d received it but he had opened it [...]
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