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November 8

November 9th, 2005 at 12:59 am

Yeah! No money spent today. Ds2 is feeling a little better - not quite so feverish - bit still not acting like himself. This cold has been through my mom and dad, niece, both sons, SIL..it's a miracle that I have not gotten it yet as I am usually the first. Maybe it's because I am eating a lot better than I used to, or that I have been washing my hands like crazy. Probably both...
Not much to report today. DH took all our checks to the bank today finally, so I can start writing checks and spending them! We are still going back and forth on whether to pay down his car or my student loans. The car loan rate is slightly lower (3.75%, I think) than my loans, which are about 4.5%, so I guess we really should pay the loan down first. But we owe several thousand less on his car, and it would really be nice to be done with it. We'll see...
A few nice things today...I went to Bank of America right next to where I work and got some information on their accounts. I will probably close our HSBC account as they are closing the HSBC bank in our village (so we will have no bank in our little town of 2000 people). Since I will have to go to the bigger town where I work to bank, I might as well go to a branch that is close to my job. So I think I will sign up for an account at BOA, especially now that they have the "Keep the Change" promotion. I got the application in the mail today for the vocational kids to fix our car (if we get chosen). I'll cross my fingers on that one. And DH found the piece of paper that I had written all the information about the massage on and thought it was a birthday list, so maybe he'll "surprise" me with that for my birthday later this month Wink (mjrube, thanks for the tip...I like to peruse the g.c. section on E-bay every so often, but was always a little wary of the spa deals...it's good to know that you have had a nice experience). Lastly, I gave away a car seat that had been taking up room on Freecycle, so that made me feel good to get it to someone who could use it.
No changes in expenses/income, so I'm not even going to post that here.
Ways I saved money today: Brought my lunch to work, drank water at work, ate leftovers for dinner instead of letting them go to waste in the back of the fridge (a common occurence here - I don't have anything against leftovers, but I just never seem to remember them), took DH's more fuel-efficient car to work today since he didn't need it.

1 Responses to “November 8”

  1. Anonymous Says:
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    Jodi,

    If you're interested, I can refer you to BOA. You'll get a $25 bonus for opening a checking account with them, and a $10 bonus for opening a savings account with them (and I'll get a $25 bonus for referring you). Send me a private message if you're interested and I'll give you the information you need.

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