Category Archives: General Stuff-of-Life

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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Another College Update

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 7, 2010
Well, The Daugh­ter has so far heard from half of the dozen schools she applied to.  Six accep­tance let­ters; she’s still sit­ting at a 100% accep­tance rate.  Not too shabby!  I think she’s heard from all but one of the pri­vate col­leges now; does it take longer for pub­lic schools to send out notices? She’s still [...]
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$$: Plastic Ziplock Alternatives

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 28, 2009
One of the best things about two weeks’ worth of school vaca­tion is two weeks’ break from pack­ing lunches. [So shoot me.  If I were a really good mom, I’d say the best part of vaca­tion is being with my kids, right?] Last year I exper­i­mented with using waxed paper sand­wich bags instead of plas­tic ziplock sand­wich bags [...]
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College Update

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 14, 2009
So, back when I was in silent mode, The Daugh­ter fin­ished all of her col­lege appli­ca­tions. She applied to a dozen schools. As of tonight she’s heard from 3; all three have accepted her and offered ini­tial aca­d­e­mic schol­ar­ships rang­ing from $12,500 to $20,000 per year. Most of the schools she applied to were [...]
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She’s Baaaack!

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 12, 2009
Yup.  Here I am.  The prodi­gal Sub­ur­ban Wife returns. I’ve really missed post­ing.  I’ve really missed bud­get­ing.  I really miss YNAB [http://www.ynab.com].  Jesse has promised to release YNAB3 before the end of the year.  There aren’t that many days left before the end of the year.  They’ll be busy, hec­tic, and slightly expen­sive days but, still, [...]
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