tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189595762021-12-13T21:16:47.734-08:00This blog started out as a way to document my adventures in embracing the frugal life and reducing my debt to nothingness. Now I'm just documenting whatever I feel like at the moment.kassyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10258944461462092099noreply@blogger.comBlogger215125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18959576.post-64468496265502398522010-12-11T12:19:00.000-08:002010-12-11T12:37:01.222-08:00

A CONVERSATION:BF: There's something for you in the fridge.Me after looking in the fridge and smacking BF's ass: Are you trying to keep me fat?BF: If I go to Jack in the Box and don't get you something you complain, if I do get you something you complain, there's no winning.Me: Humph!! (heats up Jack in the Box and eats it, yum!)Well at least he ordered the small size so it didn't wipe out my

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For Thanksgiving I went the lazy route and ordered the prime rib dinner from Safeway. For $64.99 you get a prime rib, scalloped potatoes, green bean casserole, corn, dinner rolls, and an apple pie. All I had to do was take the two plus hours to cook it. Oh yeah, and trudge through the snow and ice to get to Safeway since the car was in Bellevue with BF. Here's an oh so glamorous pic from the

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Here's a link to the new blog, on its way to being as neglected as the other ones, it's called Looking at Shelter a terribly uncreative name that was supposed to be a play on words of some sort. This blog is for complaining about house woes and looking at pictures of housely things that I admire. The picture above isn't even remotely current, suffice to say the house looks worse now, sigh.

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I have spent much time the last two days avoiding my homework and reading all of the 2006 and 2007 posts from MirrorMirror a blog which I just love to visit. Paola Thomas writes about her adventures in relocating from London to Seattle, raising a child, and running her online shop MirrorMirror hence her blog name. I don't remember how I found her blog, but find it hugely readable. And I also

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from hereSandra Juto's blog is always a nice place to visit. I love her photography and her illustrations. I'm happy to say that I own a Buttcrack doll, a pair of wrist worms, and one of her drawings. I am very excited for her that she is going to realize her dream of moving to Berlin, having the courage to live a dream is very inspirational, as is this quote from an interview with Sandra.

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Created a five year plan, it doesn't commence until July 24, because that is a good day to start it since it is the bf's bday. Makes it easy to remember that way. Prepping for the plan now. Prep work involves paying off the outstanding debt by July 24. Here are the numbers so I have them all concrete, course I make payments tomorrow but I'm typing now and may not feel like coming back tomorrow

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Getty Images1. People who do not understand that an unmarked intersection is to be treated as a four-way stop.2. People who drive the wrong way in a parking lot.3. Architects and designers who do not understand that a room full of hard surfaces such as concrete and glass creates a very noisy ambiance.4. Postal workers who expect you to answer the phone at 7:30 am and only give you 90 minutes to

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And after learning Swedish, I must move there. These are apartments either for sale or rent via this site.

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The union contract I am part of expires on June 30th. We had a new contract agreed upon last fall, but Governor Gregoire refused to sign it due to the economic crisis. The union has been trying to renegotiate and get a new contract in place before the 30th so that layoff protections will be in place. In April my department lost approximately 20% of our staff due to eliminating empty positions and

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March was $844.17, but April was only $559.50 and so far I think May has been minimal. That makes another $140 that I owe myself due to naughtiness. On the bright side I am happy to report that the emergency fund is fully funded! WOOTSorry for the lack of posts (what's new you say), but I'm taking three classes this quarter and am having no breathing room.

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Just got around to adding up my February naughty spending and my fine came to $74.97 a whopping .86 less than January . Hey at least I'm consistent, that counts for something right?I had a new idea today. We've tried all sorts of ways to control our eating out, but until we develop actual willpower I'm afraid the unabashed eating will continue. So instead of trying to force limits on it, I'm

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image courtesy of Redneck Texan$20 Challenge: So I had decided to charge myself a 10% fee on all non-essential money spent as my version of the $20 challenge. And although I consider buying lunch essential, I am charging the fee on that as well since I could have brought lunch; most likely I did bring lunch but didn't eat it. I also didn't do a very good job of tracking my receipts so I probably

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2008 was a year of spending, you'd think after living frugally and paying off my debt that I would have learned something and managed to stay debt free. But no, it seems that the terrible habit I have of doing what I'm told not to do applies to things I tell myself not to do as well. So I spent 2008 spending money on myself. I spent $1157.43 at Etsy alone!!! Then there was the wii and the wii fit

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2008 Apple Cup is ours!!!!!!!!!!!Way to go Cougs!!!!!

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I saw this on CNN today, I had no idea. This is Molly, she is a Katrina survivor, after Katrina she was attacked by a pit bull and had to have part of her leg amputated. Instead of being put down, it was determined she was a good candidate for a prosthetic leg and Molly is doing wonderfully. She now visits children in hospitals who need or will be having amputation and helps to make them feel

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image from mouse on flickrLet's hear it for sporadic posting!!Anyhow, holidays coming. My dad told us not to buy him and my mom anything this year, he wants us to save our money because of the economy. My mom isn't even sure she wants to have the traditional Christmas breakfast this year. Hooray!!! For years I have hated Christmas, all the pressures and expectations and not being allowed to do

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I'm in need of a new printer, does anyone have any recommendations? I'd like to be able to print images, but also work from home once a week so an all-in-one is helpful as well although if I had to choose, I'd say printing images is more important than a printer I can use for work. Has to be mac compatible and most importantly must still print in b/w when the color ink is out. My current Epson

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Decorno has a really helpful post on taking good pictures, she went straight to the source and asked primo photographer Paul Costello for advice, I will let you read the full post on her blog but some tips that really hit me were never use the camera's flash, try to get by with natural light, and don't be afraid of a 30 second exposure. We were at Golden Gardens the other night and I could have

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Last month while on shopping ban I couldn't wait until March so I could buy myself this necklace. Well March finally arrived and I allowed myself to shop again and I did not buy the necklace. Instead I bought this necklace from Zula Surfing on Etsy:I'm a sucker for that shade of blue, I admire anything made of glass (a medium I'd love to be an expert in) and its the symbol for Aquarius. The

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This is Nero, he is my piggy bank that normally sits on my desk at work; he was a gift from a friend who shares the same birthday with me. Today I brought him home so I could count up the loose change he ate up during February. $20 challenge totals for February:tax return: $795; bday money: $40; loose cash/change: $32.16; $1 cuz the Giants won the Super Bowl; $2 because I brought lunch twice (

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For the last four days I've been able to open up the front door in the afternoons and let the sun stream in, I've been sitting at the computer in the mornings with the windows open just listening to all the birds twittering. And today, BF found something beautiful in the yard!!You can't tell from this picture, but we have a little tiny flower in the middle of the yardIt's exactly to the left of

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I'm not at all fond of my name. People constantly mispronounce it and misspell it. You know those racks of personalized key chains and mini license plates in gift shops? Never, ever had my name on anything. Even the dictionary is insulting, if you look up my given name (Kassandra) you have to look in the dictionary in the C section not the K section. Even though the origin of my name is Greek and

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