Kim | April 27, 2010
So in the last month or so, things have been crazy busy. Hurrah for two kids. But, it’s been good for our pocketbook: – We paid off my Perkins loan ($3000) and the rest of the smallest loan I had ($2200). We’ve paid off around $9500 since January 1, 2010. You can see the Debt [...]
Kim | March 31, 2010
We knew that once Ben was born that we would need to get Greg a car, simply because of a high gas bill, a spread out city, poor public transportation, and him feeling comfortable with us at home knowing we had transportation if we needed to go to the doctors or whatever on a moment’s [...]
Kim | March 29, 2010
Now that our son has been born and I’ve had a couple weeks to experience Newborn Cloth Diapering, I want to revisit the workd of one-size covers, especially the Kissaluvs Marvel. My first impressions of the Marvel were “eh”, but after using it on Elise and now Benedict; I can say that I’m definitely feeling [...]
Kim | March 19, 2010
Right before Benedict was born, we sent out our loan payments. So far, so good. For my smallest loan, only $7.91 went to interest, the rest sweet glorious principal. The next payment will push the principal below $2200, which really makes me happy. Greg’s part of The Beast is still obscene – only $15 to [...]
Kim | March 10, 2010
Our part came today for the start switch. It took us $27.50 and Greg 5 minutes to install it, and TA-DA! My dryer now works again! I am so over the moon because not only does it work (for under $30), we didn’t need to have a service call made or ANYTHING. Hurray for handy [...]
Kim | March 8, 2010
Just when the dryer problem was solved, here comes another one: Elise’s crib broke. One of the slats broke apart, so now the crib is considerably unsafe and unusable. We have no problems having her sleep with us (except for the spinning/moving she does), but with the upcoming birth of Little One; we know we [...]
Kim | March 8, 2010
Well, Greg looked at the dryer Saturday morning. No loose wires, blown fuses or anything like that; so we are thinking it’s the switch that went kaput. Greg got the switch out, called an appliance shop, and had a new switch ordered for … $27.50. Shipping is included, so that’s handy. It should be in [...]
Kim | March 5, 2010
I discovered today that our dryer no longer starts. It’s been a quick succession of failure, which started when it no longer needed to be turned on to start – just changing the dial to a new cycle was enough to turn it on (I noticed that last week). Now, it’s definitely not starting. I [...]
Kim | February 27, 2010
I decided to do something different with the March grocery run, mainly do a major purge of the freezer and pantry contents. This will finish off our meat stockpile, and unless Little One comes in the next two weeks; the only thing we’ll have left in our freezer is some corn and a bag of [...]
Kim | February 22, 2010
Taking care of things like balancing the checkbook this morning, I decided to check and see if the lender had applied my payment to my part of THE BEAST. Sure enough, they did. And this makes me a happy camper – the total balance is really under $40K and about half went to principal, and [...]