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How We’re Paying Our Business Expenses Post-Wells Fargo

February 3, 2009

Good to know that Wells Fargo is making good use of their bailout money afterall.  I suppose it is more important to take the employees on a Vegas vacation than to keep credit available for small businesses with spotless credit. For now, we’re using the credit card that I got back in 1997 for our [...]

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Helpful Advice From Wells Fargo

February 1, 2009

Yesterday we finally got our letters in the mail from Wells Fargo, officially letting us know that they had closed our business credit card accounts.  The letter is ridiculous, and I thought I’d share it with you all.  It’s good for a laugh anyway.  They mention that they closed the accounts and that they understand [...]

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Very Disappointed In Wells Fargo

January 30, 2009

An open letter to Wells Fargo and anyone else who cares: Dear Wells Fargo, I have been banking with you for six years.  My husband has been with you since the mid-90s.  When we bought our house and consolidated our finances, we decided to merge my bank accounts with his and move everything to your [...]

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Crazy Jobs

January 26, 2009

J. Money over at Budgets Are Sexy has put together a great list of crazy jobs that we frugal folk have held over the years.  My days as a dishroom girl in a dorm cafeteria are chronicled, along with plenty of other good jobs that will either make you grateful for your 9 – 5 [...]

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Frugal Because We Want To Be

December 11, 2008

I got a comment today on my post about our financial goals that I thought was worth further discussion.  Dave wrote: “I don’t know much about you but it seems like you folks have plenty of money. Anyone know of a blog directed toward the working poor? Somebody making / surviving on $30K a year?” [...]

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So Much Better Off With Less Money

October 6, 2008

We went to a retirement party on Friday evening. It was for a man my husband and I both worked with back in our bad old corporate days. Being back at that office revived a lot of memories for both of us. Some good (like meeting each other) but mostly bad (like 13 hour days, [...]

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Nearly Finished Painting The House

July 27, 2008

We’re so close to the end of our painting project. We got our HOA to give us an extension to the end of the month, and it looks like we’re going to make it. We’ll probably have to spend two evenings this week and then it will be done. (actually, it looks like about two [...]

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Credit Cards Can Be Your Friend

July 23, 2008

I’ve made it very clear throughout my blog that I’m a fan of credit cards. My husband and I put all our purchases on one credit card, with the exception of Costco, where we use AmEx, since it’s the only credit card they take. We earn rewards on our cards, have a clear statement of [...]

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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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I Resigned

June 2, 2008

I quit my library job today. I made up my mind last week, and spent the last few days thinking about telling my boss.  She and I were coworkers for three years before she became my boss last fall, and we’ve been good friends for all of that time.  Until last month, she and I [...]

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