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From the monthly archives:
I can’t remember exactly when Olivia started talking about wanting to take horseback riding lessons. Every time we’d take her older brother to a certain friend’s dad’s house (follow that?) in a nearby town, we’d pass a sign on a busy corner advertising some. The stable itself sat nearby, remnants of a farm still holding [...]
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Logging into my USAA accounts recently, I noticed a poll on the sidebar with this question:
How many overdraft fees did the average household pay in 2009?
1
4
9
13
Would you be surprised to learn the answer was 13?
“…. the average U.S. household with a banking account incurred nearly 13 overdraft fees in 2009, according to management [...]
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Wow, I just scrounged up a draft of this post originally dated July 1. I guess I had admirable intentions of a timely update. I have been amazingly lazy about reluctant to post June’s numbers: Paying down debt just isn’t very exciting when you’re only making the regular payments.
I really can’t call this a snowball. [...]
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Peter is a picky eater, always has been. His mainstays are peanut butter and honey tortillas (yes, you read that right), bananas, and applesauce. The quintessential white diet. He has and does eat other foods, but tortillas are what he begs for. Even if we are offering him something that he has eaten before, he’ll [...]
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Finally. Oh, how I’ve missed you all! We logged almost 2000 miles in ten days between Ohio and Kansas. It did rain over the 4th of July, effectively canceling my sister’s Independence Day Bash. We did, however, manage to set some money on fire light some fireworks at my parent’s house in [...]
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It’s the night before we officially celebrate our nation’s Independence Day, though you’d think it was already the 4th based on all the snap, crackle, popping and occasional BOOM! going on outside all over my hometown in Kansas. And these are just the amateurs!
We just arrived at my parent’s house and can’t yet answer the [...]
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