I just passed up another milestone, after several setbacks. IRS audit, cha ching. Brother out of work, cha-ching again. Mom needed money for doctor bills, cha-ching again. BUT, dh got a third job. I became this super-frugal freak for groceries with very careful menu planning and shopping and got our monthly bill down to, like, half of what it was. So, despite all the setbacks, we managed to get to another magic number. HALF of our monthly take home. We are really getting into this. Only problem, it isn’t in time to have anything but another super-frugal Xmas.
Nov 17, 06:04PM PST | 1 cheer | 1 comment
Something really magical happened the other day. I had no idea that it was going to feel so incredible, in fact, it was altogether unexpected. I paid off the bills from yet another ridiculously frugal Christmas (we gave each other shirts, I mean really!) and then I sent everything else off to the cards, and the new total is: less than our income in a month. That is just a magic number, because somehow our new total debt is a Small Number. I had no idea. Yippee! We still have our TV from a dumpster. It makes a loud sound now after it has been on for a few minutes, a sort of a hum. It is my cross to bear.
Jan 05, 2009, 06:00PM PST | 3 cheers | 0 comments
but I fell in love with science again, later.
Jan 06, 2008, 07:58AM PST | 0 comments
I'm doing 20 things
