Skip the steel wool at $3.50 for 10 pads. You can use a piece of aluminum foil with a little dish soap. At $2 for 25 square feet, it is a bargain. However, I have a simpler solution. Baking Soda! Sprinkle baking soda in a dry or almost dry pan. Wet a plastic scouring pad [...]
How to Save Money – Theme Park Tickets
April 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Do you love going on all those roller coasters and other rides at theme parks? Buy your tickets online at the parks website or check with you local credit union or city. Theme parks give discounts to cities to encourage them to arrange a bus trip of school kids during the summer. They also give [...]
Office Clean Up – Shredding Papers
February 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
With tax time here, I start to look at my piles and files of paper and think do I really need all this? Most of it has confidential information like account numbers and social security numbers. Then I decide I need to start shredding them. But how do you shred them? Occasionally civic groups may [...]
Building a Filing System (Organizing My Financial Records)
October 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Files to Keep – Taxes (Organizing My Financial Records)
October 19, 2010 By 1 Comment
I am organizing my personal finances and records. Yesterday I dug up the boxes from the basement labeled taxes. I have another drawer in my desk with more recent tax stuff. They are going into the bottom drawer of the 5 drawer lateral file cabinet that I told you about yesterday. So the question became [...]
