Archive for October, 2010

Meal planning for plugging budgetary holes

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Chief Family Officer and I go waaaay back: we both started blogging in 2005.  She, being the consummate CFO, has been far more regular with monitoring her routines than I have.  (By contrast, if you were to count the number of times I start something up on here, and then ...

Know what you’re saving yourself from

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

A colleague at work was twisting my arm to get an Xbox 360 so that I could "play with all the cool kids" and get my butt handed to me in the new Halo game.  This was after telling him that I already had a Wii.  As a parting shot ...

A small, tiny little speed bump on the road to Swagbucks glory

Friday, October 1st, 2010

A few days ago I was all set to redeem another $5 Amazon gift certificate with my Swag Bucks over at SwagBucks.com. But I was THWARTED!!  (Temporarily anyway.)  I got hit with this message: There is a limit of 5 orders per prize each calendar month. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Bummer, ...