Archive for the ‘Roundups’ Category

My two cents on Suze Orman and her prepaid card

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Suze Orman needed to upgrade her leather jacket to a flak jacket tonight in a personal finance scrap match with personal finance bloggers over her new self-branded prepaid debit card.  The Approved Card is her own personally-branded prepaid debit card with what appears to be a decent package of tools ...

Mighty Bargains and links: gearing up for sugar rush

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

A week from Sunday our church will be sponsoring a Trunk Or Treat for the community.  (Translation: lots and lots of candy all in one place.  And most of the kids get to go home with their parents, not me! :) )  Somehow, I don't think it will be tough ...

Yard sale finds and interesting reads and links

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

I was able to hit the ends of a couple of yard sales today.  As with the last time this happened, I got some good deals.  I was able to work everything down because people were starting to pack up and didn't want to load the stuff back into their ...

Friday Fiscals: Landscaping edition

Friday, March 26th, 2010

We're settling into our new house, and getting some landscaping work done in our back yard.  Kudos to our landscaper who came out today, in the cold rain, to push things along. Anyway, here are some posts of interest from this week around the Internets: The Balanced Spreadsheet asks: "Is it good ...