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Entries from June 2008

I started my Christmas shopping today

June 30th, 2008 · 6 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We’ve been putting aside $25 a month for Christmas.  I know that this doesn’t sound like a lot, but keep the following things in mind:
1.  My husband and I don’t buy each other gifts for Christmas.  Seriously.  If one [...]

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Tags: Frugal Spending · Kids · Personal Finance · Saving Money

The most elite mothers group ever?

June 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Warning:  Rant ahead…
I live in a smaller town.  There used to be an online mothers group, of which I was a member.  At some point, a bunch of the mothers decided to open another group in which you have to know another mom to get in.  The old group is now gone.
This is all fine [...]

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Tags: Kids

Getting rid of e-mail

June 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments

One of my big goals (part of the change in money, love, and change) has been to simplify our life.  We’ve done quite a bit, but there is more that can be done.
My #1 pet peeve right now is my e-mail.  I have one central e-mail account that has incoming e-mails from school, the website, [...]

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Tags: Simplify

Say thanks to our troops for free

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Xerox is sponsoring a program called “Let’s Say Thanks”, which allows people to send free postcards designed by children to US military members who are stationed overseas.  It only takes a minute of your time to select a postcard and choose a message (or write one of your own).
If you’re a fellow blogger, you can [...]

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Tags: Charities

Sesame Place is pretty nice!

June 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments

We took our 2-year-old to Sesame Place on Wednesday.  Sesame Street is the only television show he watches, and since Sesame Place is relatively close (within 3 hours), we thought it would be a nice family outing.
Overall, I think this is a great place to take your younger kids.  The park is not huge, and [...]

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Tags: Kids · Travel

Technical Difficulties

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

I just wanted to write a quick post - my ISP has been having some issues, but things should be fixed by this afternoon.
I’ll post back as soon as things are fixed.  I also wanted to apologize to Entrecard droppers - things were just too slow over the past two days to keep up; I [...]

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Tags: Technical

We took a day trip - be back tomorrow

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

We had a blast today - my husband took the day off, and we took the kid to Sesame Place.  I’ll write more tomorrow, but I give this place three thumbs up if you have little ones!

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Tags: About Us · Kids · Travel

Please consider helping our troops

June 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

We have a free subscription to Sports Illustrated.  Now that it is baseball season, neither my husband nor myself really read the issues.  We have dropped back issues off at various locations in the past - doctor’s offices, the gym, etc.  I was thinking about whether or not they could be put to better use.
After [...]

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Tags: Charities

Watch Bonnaroo live

June 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

For those of you that are wondering, Bonnaroo is a live music festival that features a variety of bands.  If you want to go, it’s a little late, since it’s occuring this weekend.  However, you can still watch certain acts live (for free) thanks to the AT&T blue room.
We watched the Raconteurs earlier today, and [...]

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Tags: Saving Money

Thoughts on Boomertowne changes

June 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

**UPDATE:  I no longer recommend Boomertowne - they have not cashed in on gift cards since the early part of May, and are not communicating with their users.  Please see this post for more information.
At the end of January, I wrote a brief review about a site called Boomertowne.  I still visit this site daily, [...]

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Tags: Making Money Online