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July 2008

One of the best $300 items we’ve ever bought – a new stove!

July 31, 2008

Woohoo – we’re modernized! Not only is this one hella sexy stove, but it came with a hardcore discount. (did you ever doubt?) This is one of those times where i absolutely LOVE home ownership because you can do whatever your heart desires. Can you imagine if we were renting and I asked our landlord [...]

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"You have to look at what you have, not at what you had."

July 30, 2008

Words of wisdom from the queen of finance herself – Suze Orman (who seems to be popping up everywhere these days!) I don’t know much about her, but it sure seems like she wants me to :) She’s on every other magazine, or financial show i check out – my favorite being the SNL skits [...]

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My Toyota Highlander is up For Sale, and Everyone’s hatin’

July 29, 2008

Man, this time last year it would have been sold instantly! Leather, heated seats, 3rd row, 6-cd changer, all luxury man – it’s a great buy. But here we are, one year later and it’s already got a bad rap. The second you call it an SUV (*ghasp!) it gets discriminated against :( Sure it [...]

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Not Paying Attention Cost Us $123.00 Saturday Night :(

July 28, 2008

One hundred and twenty – three dollars, can you believe that?! And the sad part is, we could have EASILY avoided it altogether! arghh….just thinking of it gives me the heebie jeebies. Oh well, as soon as I get it out of my system here I’ll lock it up in the old “stop thinking about [...]

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Bike for sale…he he…it’s a good one!

July 28, 2008
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It’s time to whip out the old Sell-O-Meter!

July 25, 2008

I have a tendency to forget things every now and then (usually more NOW than then) and unfortunately my Fun Fund is usually the first to fall through these mental cracks. So in honor of it, I am starting a page where I detail all of the items I’ve sold in order to keep the [...]

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My Top Referrers, and This Week’s Kooky Carnivals.

July 25, 2008

It really feels like i post these every other day, but it’s in fact already been a week – Yikes! Do you know how fast time’s been going by lately? No? Well it’s the complete opposite of slowwww. As in i can’t even remember what i DID this week it flew by so fast. Humph… [...]

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A Personal Thank You to Great Customer Service out There.

July 24, 2008

Oooooooh how I love me some excellent customer service! Seriously, in a consumer driven society shouldn’t we be getting this all the freakin’ time anyways? (the answer is Yes). Being a Customer Service Manager myself, I understand and appreciate the role the customer plays – without them, I wouldn’t be sitting here right now typing [...]

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Grab $5.00 off your next purchase at Borders.com!

July 23, 2008

I just got this not-so-junky-mail in the mail today. It’s a clean $5.00 off anything on their new website! It doesn’t get any hotter than that my friends. If you’re on the verge of picking up a new book, cd, or video anyways, check it out here first and see if you can get lucky: [...]

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My 4 Favorite Pieces of Financial Advice E-V-E-R.

July 23, 2008

Every now and then a friend or two will ask me for my best financial advice, and while I wished I could refer them to a single post of mine, unfortunately I never could….until today! This post encapsulates my all-time favorite “words of wisdom”, jotted down in one simple place. There’s a bazillian of things [...]

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