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My husband and I recently contracted a company to install new doors and windows in our sixty year old house. So far the experience has been less than stellar. For starters, the company accidentally ordered the wrong size windows, but only realized this after ripping the original windows out. They were able to temporarily screw … Read more
I’m happy to say that for the most part my husband and I get along amazingly well. Although we get on each others nerves every so often we rarely fight. When we do argue it’s usually about extended family issues that we really don’t have much control over anyway. The one exception to this rule … Read more
Over the past few weeks I received bad service and even worse food from two different restaurants in our area. Rather than watching good money go down the drain I decided to contact the customer service departments to discuss the specifics of the issues I encountered. I wasn’t sure what each establishment would do, but … Read more
That’s right. I came home from vacation weekend before last, piled up all the mail, opened all of the envelopes and set aside everything important. I found a $100 gift card in the stack and set it aside somewhere. The trouble is I can’t remember where somewhere is. I searched the house and can’t find … Read more
Sometimes the deal seeking girl in me gets so caught up that she doesn’t consider the bigger picture. Sometimes a short-sighted attempt to save money ends up costing me more than it saves me. Sometimes I find my own actions unbelievably frustrating! Last week was a perfect example. For starters, a sale on lingerie at … Read more
I’ve been robbed again. Just over a year ago thieves rummaged through my car in search of goodies. Last time they walked away with nothing more than pocket change. This time they took off with my GPS and $6 in cash. My car was parked in the driveway just outside of my house and next … Read more
After spending time journaling a month’s worth of credit card transactions it seems that I lost all of the details somewhere in the bowels of my computer. Oh, the frustration of being a do-gooder. While most folks simply look over their credit card statements my husband and I make a point to document all of … Read more
On our last road trip down to North Carolina my husband suggested stopping off at Best Buy to purchase a new blu-ray DVD player with Netflix streaming capabilities. I’m not a big fan of making unplanned purchases so I asked my husband if we shouldn’t wait to buy one. I reminded him that I had … Read more
I typically concentrate on a million and one ways to save money, but lately I’ve found myself in a spend, spend, spend frame of mind. After nearly nine years of living in a sixty year old house, with sixty year old bathrooms I really want to remodel. We have old-school bathrooms, you know the kind … Read more
I spent the last few days researching title insurance companies in the state of Maryland and finally decided to proceed with Stewart Title. I found a very pleasant settlement agent to handle all of our paperwork and patted myself on the back for finding a cheaper solution to the title service recommended by our lender. … Read more