Day 214: New Driver’s Insurance

At the end of yesterday’s Daily $$ post I mentioned that I’d received a quote of nearly $1,000 every 6 months (or almost $2,000 per year) to insure our 16yo daughter with her newly minted driver’s license.
After spending the entire morning on the phone with someone in our agent’s office, here’s what we finally came [...]

Day 213: Woot, Lavage, Gas, Book, Starbucks, and Bad News

Woot — $19.99
My first-ever Woot purchase.  I usually start out my on-line day by checking out the daily Woot deal but I’ve never seriously been tempted to buy anything until today.  This morning’s deal was a Tuesday 2-fer pack of Black & Decker CP120B Backup Batteries.  The purchase price was $14.99 with $5 shipping.
These battery packs [...]

Day 99: Another No-Spend Day*

The weather’s yucky (freezing cold and a couple inches of new snow) and I woke up with a bad stomach-ache so we skipped church and just stayed home.  Staying home definitely increases my chance of having a no-spend day though with the Internet and my credit cards at my finger-tips, it’s no guarantee. 
The reason for the [...]