Archive for January, 2010
How we are saving money on painting our new home
Monday, January 11th, 2010I hate painting, but its looking good! Did I mention, I hate painting? I discovered this when we painted the kitchen. It seems like it took forever. The icy day Friday, left me with much boredom, so I picked up the paintbrush and went at it. We decided a few months ago that we were [...]
Frozen, Day Off from work. Can cost you or save you. Learn soon
Saturday, January 9th, 2010Icy conditions, why risk it? Thursday night it started snowing just as the weather man said it would. Even better than that, all the roads froze over Friday. I knew this would happen. It was a great feeling getting to sleep in on Friday and get paid for it. Some people just had to try [...]
How we saved $5000.00 on our shower leak.
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Drip, turns to rain in the basement If you’ve been reading for any amount of time, you know that we just bought a house in June 2009. It was all good, till one day when the moms came and visited. You know how moms are, they will never sit down and just enjoy themselves. Long [...]
How we racked up a nice stash of ca$h from Christmas
Monday, January 4th, 2010Paid holiday, time off with family, great food can’t beat it. Christmas has more benefits than presents, but lets say we did pretty nice racking up on cash. It must be the newly wed factor. We got gift cards for Home Depot, and Lowes as well as cold hard cash. Katie really racks up because [...]
New Year, New Budget! Get on track now so you wont derail later!
Friday, January 1st, 2010Happy New Year, Its been quite sometime since my last entry. I apologize for that. The month of December is a crazy month. I had 4 Christmas dinners to go to all on the same day. Welcome to my world. Lots of things to catch up on. Things to come: How we racked up a [...]