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President Obama writes school girl’s excuse from last day

Jim — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:53:41 +0000

Just watched the President Obama’s Town Hall meeting in Green Bay, WI. He wrote a note to a teacher for Kennedy, a ten year old girl, that was missing her last day of school.

Just my 2 cents. Jim @ ChangeJarSavings.com

PSA – DST started

Jim — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:42:30 +0000

I woke up early today. Or so I thought. At 6:30 this morning I got up. Forgot that in the US we switch to daylight savings time. At 2 am our clocks jump ahead an hour. I forgot to change the clocks last night before going to sleep. So what I thought was 6:30 was really 7:30. I slept in!

Just my 2 cents. Jim @ ChangeJarSavings.com

Anniversary – Welcome to the new site!

Jim — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:01:00 +0000

Getting Ahead in Life was started at Blogger.com in November 2007. Yes, it has been a year. I had two things that frustrated me. I could not edit comments and I wanted a shorter address because http://www.gettingaheadinlife.blogspot.com/ was to long for me to remember, so how could my readers. I thought I could live with not being able to edit comments in Blogger but I really wanted GettingAheadInLife.com as the URL.

Also in this last year, my wife and I started a web site to sell our photography. It is still a work in progress and if you want to check it one you can. It is VoyageurGallery.com. There are some bugs but like I said it is a work in progress. With having the website I could have Word Press for nothing. I did not want the blog about personal finance to be VoyageurGallery.com/blog. But I played with a test blog.

It took several months to come up with a name that was meaningful and easy to remember. Most of the time the ones I thought up were already registered domain names.

The result is after a year of Getting Ahead in Life, I finally came up with Change Jar Savings. ChangeJarSavings.com was available. I registered it on Friday and proceeded to set it up with Word Press and import the old posts from Getting Ahead in Life. Like my other site it is a work in progress.

Like Getting Ahead in Life, the purpose of Change Jar Savings is to share information that I have come across, in some cases used to help make my life better both financially and in other ways. I like to share these with you, so your life may be better to.

You will continue to see the same things you have on Getting Ahead in Life but with some improvements. The first thing you will notice is a whole new look. A new beginning needs a whole new look too. So come on over to ChangeJarSavings.com. Also if you subscribed to the feed, there is a new feed as well at http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChangeJarSavings. Please change your feeds as well. For the next week I will post at both sites, so you don’t miss a thing but after December 6th, I will not be posting to Getting Ahead in Life.

Just my 2 cents. Jim @ ChangeJarSavings.com

Halloween is coming

Jim — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:52:00 +0000

The grandsons are looking forward to Halloween, mostly the 5 year old. They want to be Sponge Bob and Patrick. I have not bought costumes in years.

Frankly, I am surprised by how much they cost. So my wife daughter and I are brainstorming on how to make them their costumes. If they were older they would not want homemade cotumes. But for now we can get away with it.

So what are you or your kids (or grandkids) going as this halloween?

Just my 2 cents. Jim @ ChangeJarSavings.com

All is quiet

Jim — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:43:00 +0000

Yes I have been quiet. The stomach flu (and other illensses) has hit our house. I was third in line to get it and helping to take care of the other sickies in the house (and work) left no time for blogging. I can deal with it. I missed work for a half a day but my 2 year old grandson does not know what hit him.

For those who don’t know my daughter and her two boys live with us again. So far the 5 year old did not get it.

My oldest daughter caught pnemonia. Usually I am the one to have walking pnemonia but not this time. Thank God!

But just as I start to feel better, I started to notice yesterday a draining in the back of my throat. OH NO! Am I getting a cold???

Well in any case I am going to try putting a couple posts this week and hopefully everything will be back to normal soon.

Just my 2 cents. Jim @ ChangeJarSavings.com