Month: March 2008

Meet The Blogger Mondays: My Financial Odyssey

Welcome to Meet the Blogger Mondays. Last Monday we featured *Save For House* and today’s post features *TMac* from *My Financial Odyssey*. You can see the questions highlighted below and then the responses taken directly from *TMac* . Begin Interview Why did you start blogging? I started blogging for one main reason...

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Save Money by Walking to WalMart

I could save more money if I chose to walk to Walmart. Well that is what my mother suggested to me recently because the WalMart is one mile from where I live. Now I have not taken her advice yet for two main reasons: I am still recovering from my surgery WalMart is on a very busy street These are the two things that are...

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Stopped Tracking Finances in March

I stopped looking to see if I could save money in March because I have gone way over my budget. My mother came up to stay with me to take care of me since I had my surgery and I just know that I blew my budget for the month. I bought more food since she obviously does not eat the way I do….she eats meat and I don’t...

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State of My Credit Cards

Here is the state of my credit card accounts at How I Save Money. You all know that I was TOTALLY ignorant about the use of credit cards and credit scores when I started and made some REALLY bad decisions . I ended up with a large number of credit cards and carried balances on all of them for a LONG time. A good deal of the...

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Kettering University has Great Co-ops

Honey has been researching universities recently and this made me think of my own experience, along with some other friends. I studied business in school and did not take any co-ops like I should have. Then I have a friend (actually a blog stalker) who did engineering and would have benefited greatly from the engineering co-op...

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