Author Archives: Suburban Wife

$$: No-Spend

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 27, 2010
No money spent though I have spent a good deal of time “win­dow” shop­ping (or should I call it “tab” shop­ping since I pre­fer to open mul­ti­ple tabs within one browser win­dow).  Either way, you get the point — I did a lot of look­ing online for men’s cot­ton boxer shorts. The Son has decided that [...]
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Missed $$: GE Stock through Sharebuilder

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 27, 2010
Share­builder — $150.00 I for­got to report on Mon­day that I’d trans­ferred $150 into my Share­builder account and that yes­ter­day that money was used to make another invest­ment pur­chase in form of GE stock.  Yesterday’s trans­ac­tion cost me $4.00 in fees and yielded another 8.8539 shares of GE stock at $16.49 per share. Also on Mon­day, GE paid [...]
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$$: Bonehead

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 26, 2010
Ever have one of those day?  Some­times I feel like bad days are the rule around here, not the exception. Last night The Son came home and announced that he’d been smacked in the head with a bas­ket­ball and he thought he’d chipped a tooth.  I poked a fin­ger in his mouth like he was a [...]
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I’ve updated my About Me page

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 26, 2010
I real­ized my About Me page was out of date — being as that I’m not longer a home­school­ing mom nor am I gain­fully employed 
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College Update

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 26, 2010
The Daugh­ter has now heard from 8 of the 12 col­leges to which she applied.  Another accep­tance and another schol­ar­ship offer arrived this past Sat­ur­day.  Her accep­tance rate is still at 100% but this par­tic­u­lar school isn’t in the run­ning: the approx­i­mate annual cost is $40,000 and the schol­ar­ship offer was $12,500.  That doesn’t bring [...]
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