Month: October 2008

Happy Halloween 08!

Welcome To How I Save Money! Just wanted to say Happy Halloween to everyone and remember to save some money when you can.

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It is Halloween Time Again

It is Halloween time again and my coworkers were asking me what kinds of halloween costumes I had in mind for tomorrow. Apparently we were supposed to dress up (and WHERE is the memo?) for Halloween so that our students can have something to look forward to. Um really? I have never ‘dressed up’ for Halloween...

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Zero!

I am proud to say that I FINALLY have my budget set to zero. I set up my Google documents budget to take account of all my expenses and then subtracted that from my salary. At first I put in the minimum on every account to see what the difference would be. I ended up having some money left over if I put down the minimum on...

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Tracking My Finances in October: Day 27

Welcome to How I Save Money and tracking of income and expenses for the month. Income for the month to date: $302.42 Expenses for the month to date: $2557.86 Net effect: -$2255.44 We get paid on Friday so I am eagerly looking forward to this date.  So far I am just barely under the budget this month and I have no idea what...

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How I Save Money At CVS: October 26

Welcome to How I Save Money. I am on a quest to see how much stuff I can get from CVS without spending any extra money out of my pocket. Today I got a $5 off $30 coupon so I put everything into one transaction to get the discount. The total bill came to $34.96 but it was FREE to me after a combination of coupons, ECBs and the...

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