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You Can Do A Lot With That $40

July 17, 2008

My two sisters in law and their five children are visiting us this week.  Today some of us went to a local amusement park, which I much preferred to the big Six Flags style park we went to a few days ago.  There were seven of us today, including the baby.  This park allowed us [...]

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A Family That Paints Together…

June 28, 2008

We’re in the middle of painting our house, but thanks to my family we’re a lot closer to the end of the project than we were two days ago. We’re painting because the HOA told us we had to – as they did with about half the neighborhood, from the looks of the semi-finished painting [...]

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Random Stuff

June 18, 2008

Just found this post from Mrs. Accountability about using baking soda and vinegar on her hair.  I’m excited to start doing this myself.  I’ve made a lot of changes in personal hygiene over the last few years.  I only wash my hair every third day, and I switched to chemical free shampoo a year or [...]

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99 Cent Mondays

June 17, 2008

My parents go thrift store shopping every Monday.  It’s mostly a hobby for them; they enjoy the scavenger hunt that ensues in a thrift store.  And Savers stores – in our state anyway – have 99 cent sales every Monday.  Items with particular color tags are 99 cents on Monday.  So the goal is to [...]

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Babies and Money

May 9, 2008

We got our $1200 economic stimulus payment today.  We put the whole thing into our HELOC, since we have decided to make the HELOC a priority for the time being.  We’ve already maxxed out the HSA and my husband’s IRA for the year, and instead of moving straight to my IRA, we’ve been focusing on [...]

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Maternity Leave

March 21, 2008

I met with the HR rep for my library job this week, to go over maternity leave details.  She gave me all the forms to fill out and explained how the leave works with FMLA, short-term disability, and vacation time.  I was very honest with her and told her that I’m not at all sure [...]

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Kitchen And Taxes Almost Done

March 17, 2008

We just about finished our kitchen this past weekend.  It’s very exciting to see it all come together and have it look just like we planned.  We still have some trim/paint/touching up to do, but we should be finished this week.  Then we need to get cracking on replacing the carpet in our upstairs.  We’re [...]

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Kitchen Progress

March 9, 2008

My parents and sister just spent another weekend at our house, working on our kitchen. The five of us have spent the last two weekends working on it, and it’s coming along amazingly quickly. This weekend we got the new (to us) dishwasher installed, and counter top installed around half the room. We also got [...]

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How To Be An Awesome Parent

February 16, 2008

Our house is wonderfully warm right now, thanks to my parents.  When our furnace died on Wednesday, I had described the problem to them, and told my father that we had removed the igniter from the furnace in hopes of getting a replacement on Thursday (we knew the problem was the igniter based on the [...]

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Remodeling Our Kitchen

February 11, 2008

We bought a new dishwasher today!  New to us anyway – we found it on Craig’s List and drove to the other end of town today to pick it up.  We paid $100.  It currently retails for $645, although the lady who sold it to us said that it’s about 7 -8 years old.  It’s fully [...]

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