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Toilet paper math

January 24, 2012

I am always frustrated by toilet paper prices.  Thanks to different sizes of packaging — number of rolls, sheets per roll, regular or double, etc — toilet paper is just not something that’s easy to compare.
Of course, toilet paper is also one of those things I rarely think about until we’re almost out. In which [...]

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After the D & C

January 21, 2012

I’ve never been great at allowing myself healing time.
I laid low on Friday after the D & C. On Saturday, though, I took my mother-in-law to a Goodwill sale. Then, instead of lying down, I got a notion in my head that it was the perfect time to sweep the house. (In my defense, tile [...]

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Want to buy a car? Overpay your taxes

January 18, 2012

Normally, just about everyone in the personal finance world is going to tell you to avoid overpaying the IRS. I am usually one of them.
While you want to avoid penalties for late payments or underpayment, it’s also important to remember that the IRS won’t give you a penny of interest for any overpayment. (Though it [...]

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Buckling down — for all 4 of us

January 16, 2012

My goal this week is to get serious about groceries.
We really aren’t doing a great job of carefully planning the food bill. Part of that is laziness on our part. Currently, Nadine gets about $300 a month in benefits. Now that we’re all more settled in, the rampant grocery spending seems to have abated; so [...]

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Bargain hunting for a D&C

January 14, 2012

I believe this is what they call an insult to injury.
I was woken up on Wednesday by the news that my insurance wouldn’t schedule the thing until I got a referral to the OB’s office from my primary. That meant the visit the day before wouldn’t have been covered, not to mention having to schedule [...]

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