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Low Cost Christmas Ideas

November 26, 2008 By Jim Leave a Comment

With all the spending going on in the next few days, I thought I would share a couple ideas that we have used for Christmas gifts. Everyone likes food. Since we first dated, my wife has baked for the holidays. All the relatives are happy with the breads and cookies. She skipped one year and [...]

Filed Under: Family, General Tips, Shopping, Travel

Avoiding the Plastic this Christmas

November 19, 2008 By Jim Leave a Comment

We are avoiding credit cards this year. I have told my wife once we pay them off they are going to be cut up. So we are paying cash. I get paid twice a month. With each paycheck since the end of October, I have been scrounging out $50.00. Thank god for lower gas prices. [...]

Filed Under: Consumer Affairs, Goals, Lifestyle

Wax On! Wax On???

October 30, 2008 By Jim Leave a Comment

Thinking about being green in the kitchen? Don’t want to use plastic wrap because it takes forever to decompose and it is made from oil. Aluminum can’t be recycled either. So what should you use? How about wax paper? Be careful… Most wax paper if coated with paraffin wax. Paraffin wax is made from oil [...]

Filed Under: Food and Drink, Green Living

Extra Refrigerator or Freezer costs $$

October 28, 2008 By Jim Leave a Comment

The grocery store deal may be great. But is it worth it to stock up and use an extra refrigerator or freezer? Maybe not… You can spend up to $120 in electricity per year using a second refrigerator or freezer. This is $10 a month to run. Are you saving $10 a month by stocking [...]

Filed Under: Food and Drink, Green Living

Organizing Pictures

September 18, 2008 By Jim Leave a Comment

My wife is a photo nut. Before the digital cameras, she would go through a roll a film in a week. On vacation we could have 20-30 rolls of film to develop. Thank god for the digital camera we bought. We are already on our second one she wore the last one out. It stopped [...]

Filed Under: Organization