Yesterday I took my grandson to dinner.  We both got appetizers and the total was $25.  I also picked up $25 worth of groceries at Aldi. This morning I ordered a birthday gift for my Oregon DIL.  Using $23 worth of credits, I only paid $20 out of pocket. I transferred my funds to the new bank account yesterday.  They advised that I wait until I see that my automatic payments/deposits are working before I close the old account.  It will be a month before all of them pos ...
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MM(17) leaves the school year with $30 in his checking account.  I guess he made out pretty well because he just went back to his summer job.   & he is driving me nuts because he has checks he has not deposited.  I am transferring $150 to his account right now (cash gifts that we deposited).  He has $750 in checks to deposit (more gifts and an IRS refund).  Which honestly, is more than enough to get him through summer (he doesn't really spend money, is just payi ...
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I'm still cleaning up after getting scammed.  Yesterday I froze my credit reports and mailed in a request for copies of each one.  I would have requested them online, but it was too convoluted a process.  I'm hoping I froze them in timel.  It's hard to remember everything I have to do.  But I think I'm ready now to transfer my money from the old bank account to the new one; I have updated all my automatic payments/deposits.  When that's done I can make an appointmen ...
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First off some good news..I finally got my bed yesterday so it was nice to finally be able to sleep in a bed again..all new bedding...the dog wasn't so sure LOL. Went over today to put our dishwasher at moms house and of course I went down hill when we went to the store...really wish they would find a cause for it...so hubby took me back to her place so she could babysit me and hubby could get back to get what he needed to finish it up...while there we got a call a family friend who is more lik ...
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I got the job! I actually posted that here on May 7th when they made me the tentative offer, but when I went to post it the blog disappeared. So I took that as a sign & decided to wait until I got my final offer. I got my final offer Monday & it was actually effective the day prior. I have one week remaining in my current role as lab supervisor. A series of things has happened that has made me determined to sell my condo. I will then rent an apartment where my new position is located. U ...
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Our food spending has gone significantly down this year.  I expect on the grocery side, it is ability to shop more often, shop around sales, and not just settle for whatever is left in the grocery store (often more expensive brands, last year).  There is also probably more opportunity to get out and get food elsewhere.  The reduced spending is also interesting because our food spending does include more buying food for other people, this year; buying food for potlucks and hosting ...
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I went to my grocery store last Tuesday to pick up a few things and to start taking advantage of my newly discovered 10% senior discount every Tuesday. They were also having a senior customer appreciation day, and every senior (60 years old or older who have the store club card) received a free bag full of products!  What a nice surprise. The bag itself is a very nice, very large reusable grocery bag. Inside I recieved these items: 1 pen  1 roll of paper towels  2 rol ...
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Well, it happened to me.  And I let it happen, which is the worst part, but at least not too much damage was done. I'm talking about a computer scam.  I thought I was talking to a Microsoft rep, but no, of course I wasn't.  In the end, I had to freeze my bank account and open a new one, change all my passwords, get my computer cleaned, and update all my automatic payments/deposits.  A lot of work, which I'm still doing.  The only money I "lost" was purchasing a service ...
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We are at a crossroads.  Unfortunately we are not able to control our crossroads.  What does that mean?  Well DH has been at a startup as you know.  We took a risk and it's paid off.  There is a serious offer on the table and it means quite a bit of money.  Life changing?  Yes.  We would have hit our FIRE number.  We would be completely able to Fat FIRE.  Combined with our current savings and we are looking at a 2x FIRE number.  DH would not ...
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Apparently I'm one of the few people who still writes letters and sends cards through snail mail. I have a couple of older friends who I know enjoy it, and although the majority of the people I know have email or Facebook, I still will sit down and write a letter or send a card.  As I look at some genealogy stuff, I think, we will have a generation of people who will not have those letters or cards to leave behind. My great aunt and her husband would write letters to each other since he tr ...
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My MRI was pretty awful.  I don't generally get claustraphobic, but I've never been in the smaller machine before, I've always been in the open one.  They put me in head first, but it hurt my shoulders so much (severe RA in them) that they pulled me out and turned me around and put me in feet first and I had to put my arms over my head, which was also uncomfortable, but was way better, plus I could see out of the machine a little bit and that calmed down the panic of being so enclosed. ...
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I am going to attempt to briefly touch on the big picture, but mostly just want to dive into the minutiae. Yeesh, last week was some week from hell.  We've dived head first back into too many hospitalizations and disasters.  (If it's not infinite like it was before, I can deal with one bad week.  There are not enough hours in the day to get into it).  In addition, MH was out of town for two days (so I had to work and play Mrs. Mom, as opposed to Mr. Mom that the kids usually ...
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    I've somehow got out of the habit of doing these frugal lists - partly because I am barely spending any money these days apart from just regular life expenses, so it is hard to come up with a list sometimes. At the moment, most of my frugalness comes from my garden. Anyway, here's my list from this week: (1) Bartering Galore: Spring and late summer are two of my barter-heavy periods. There is a thriving community of backyard farmers in my town who trade all kinds of garden and fo ...
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My last post was how I decided it was easier to utilize credit card rewards than scholarships (in particular, really ridiculous applications for small dollar amounts). Then, the in-laws came up yesterday to celebrate MM's Graduation.  So I have some numbers in hand.  They had brought up cards/gifts from that side of the family. MH's Family:  $670 (Mostly from Grandparents; some from Great-Grandparents and a Great-Aunt) My Family: $0   (I will be shocked if MM receiv ...
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 We paid off our house! It is a huge milestone and it reduces our expenses by nearly $1,300.00 every month. Our bare bones budget is $1,400.00 a month. ...
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I realized I haven't made a post since I arrived in Florida. I did leave a week ago Tuesday and arrived Wednesday evening. I had a nice drive down and even got to detour in North Carolina to visit my cousins who just moved there a couple weeks earlier from Connecticut. I got to see their new house and have dinner with them. Since arriving, I've been working every day to clean out the house. I've taken out 7 or 8 bags of trash, about 6 bins of paper for recycling, and packed 10 cartons of docume ...
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