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hooray for payday!

October 21st, 2011 at 04:03 pm

DS might not like it, but I'm going to get him clothes for Christmas so I can knock off some of the replacement items. I don't have to be the "fun" parent 100% of the time, just the caring and supportive one.

Two months -- must spend carefully!
I have ten days to use this year's Chinook Book coupons.

The VISA account spirals upward. I sliced 25% off the balance today.

Precious metals at a 10% discount from last month.

My natural gas bill usage was 22% lower than it was at this time last year, with the same temperature.

Hubby's videocard on his laptop is dead, so he bought himself a new motherboard. I am okay with this -- it beats buying a new laptop, and most of the money he used came from his PayPal account.

Text is Schadenfreude update and Link is www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/10/what-cities-homeowners-are-the-most-underwater/
Schadenfreude update - of the twelve properties I'm tracking, only ten of them have mortgage debt to property value ratios lower than the US average of 69.8%. They were purchased between 1999 and 2000, and although they had refinances and home equity lines of credit, the cash-outs were minimal, under 0.5% of the amount lent.


I don't know, doubt actually, that the $60 VEHICLE (I am not calling it a car -- I know this is going to include scooters and motorcycles) tab initiative will pass. Yet while listening to the talk radio discussion about the proposed measure, I pondered aloud what I can do to save $5/month.

Posted in pityparty, glorybe, untamed budget | 5 Comments »

5 Responses to “hooray for payday!”

  1. baselle Says:
    October 21st, 2011 at 09:11 pm 1319231493
    1319231493

    It might be the crotchety Republican 1/8th in me (normally a Democrat), but I voted against everything this year. That included in most cases candidates whose voter pamphet pitch started with, "re-elect..."

    Just wasn't feeling the love this year.

    If I help throw some bums out, does that count with the de-cluttering challenge?

  2. PauletteGoddard Says:
    October 21st, 2011 at 09:27 pm 1319232435
    1319232435

    I don't think you're so much 1/8th Republican unless you mean an 1870s Republican: I've noted a shift to the right as far as national education reform policy goes, and ideas privatize-education lobbyists treasure are gaining traction, like the Washington PTSA welcoming charters, Teach for America recruits getting assignments while trained and experienced Special Education teachers lose out to "emergency substitutes."

    Does this mean you voted for all the School Board challengers? I ended up with three candidates' yard signs on my lawn. I also made a cheat sheet for my husband: we are aware of what constitutes election fraud, mostly from the protest howls and kung-fu snatching action of Americans who see my pen hover ominously above a clean ballot, so I don't fill in his ballot: I only fill in his head.

  3. baselle Says:
    October 22nd, 2011 at 03:24 am 1319253860
    1319253860

    Yeah, I voted for pretty much for all the school board challengers and pretty much for all the city council challengers. I voted for Jean Gooden though, even though she's as old as the hills. At least she wrote that "she humbly asks for your vote." And I voted against Tim Eyman. It won't matter whether he's for a candy crapping unicorn, I will be against.

  4. PauletteGoddard Says:
    October 22nd, 2011 at 04:10 am 1319256632
    1319256632

    Text is This was you filling in your ballot? and Link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7cry-4pyy8
    This was you filling in your ballot?

  5. baselle Says:
    October 23rd, 2011 at 02:10 am 1319335808
    1319335808

    Yeah that was me. You even caught that post menopausal upper lip shadow too. Smile Time for the wax strip!

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