From the monthly archives:

May 2011

The movers are coming next week and I find myself alternating between excitement and dread.
Needless to say, I have a lot of things yet to take care of and separate and cull through before I’m ready for the bulk of our stuff to get thrown into a truck and driven cross-country.*
*Just a reminder: we’re moving [...]

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Ohio finally got the message that it can do something besides rain and man, is it hot. And humid. Hot and humid. Yuck.
I think it got up to 88 degrees yesterday, not sure what the humidity was, except gross-oh-hundred. But I refuse to turn on our Air Conditioner — yet. I drew closed the curtains [...]

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Do you have a Will?

by jolyn on May 7, 2011

in Planning

A survey popped up on my USAA accounts when I logged in this morning:
What percent of Americans do not have a will or estate plan?

92%
57%
44%
22%

What say you?
I did guess the correct answer, which was a whopping…
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What percent of Americans do not have a will or estate plan?

92%

57%

44%

22%

You guessed right! A recent survey conducted by Harris [...]

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Debt Balances as of the End of April 2011:

First Mortgage:  $168,292.32
Credit Card Transfer #1: $22,502.00
Credit Card Transfer #2:  $0 !!!
Rental Property:  $105,100.09

Total Debt: $295,894.41
This is a difference of -$4,661.21 in principle from the $300,555.62 owed in primary and rental mortgage debt* at the end of March.
I just have to point out that we finally got it under $300,000!!!!!
(With a [...]

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Ding, dong, the witch is dead.

by jolyn on May 2, 2011

in Military Living

I heard that from more than one direction this morning from my active facebook friends, when I was getting online to check for news alerts that had nothing to do with terrorism; rather, I was wondering if the all-night rain had caused any flooding that would affect my daughter’s school opening, the only road leading [...]

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