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November 27th, 2006 at 03:11 am

(I won't steal BA's "quickies", although that's basically what these will be!)
- we went to Binghamton for TG, stayed until Saturday. No money spent except for gas ($40.01 - it used to be that I could never stop on the exact number, but now I do it on purpose to get my Keep the Change match...but I digress). We had a wonderful weekend catching up with some relatives that we never see enough of. and we ate, of course..too much Smile
- today I spent the day puttering around, taking care of lots of odds and ends. I cleaned up a great backlog of paperwork. I found some old gift certificates that I cannot use, so I put them on E-Bay (bidding at $9.99 after 4 hours) and I am giving another one away to a savingadvice.com member who lives near this particular restaurant (bonus points: I used a recycled envelope from my Janus fund to mail the g.c.)
- I finally found my Rite Aid receipt when I cleaned out my monstrous purse, so I submitted that online.
- no babysitting money spent tonight as my SIL called me to tell me that she was able to watch the kids after all (she had told me last week that she was not able to). The SIL and I do not exchange money for babysitting, but just help each other out when able. Some of you may remember a rant a while back about this arrangement being a little too one-sided, but things seem to have evened out since then.
- I took the day off from work tomorrow, saving $40 in day care costs. I think I will send my older son to the pre-school program there, though, since he has been asking to go. That will cost $17 for three days this week.
- I cashed out $54 from cashduck.com, to be deposited into my PayPal account. I'll post on when I actually get the money. I earned that much from three trials, two of which I need to cancel tomorrow. I will also have $20 worth of g.c. coming to me soon.
- Any of you long-time readers may remember my dispute with a certain cell phone company, to remain unnamed...well, they took away my (Nextel) state of NY discount worth 10%. I called (Nextel) to find out why and was told that they took it off because my contract was up. They (Nextel) never told me that I would only get the discount for the duration of my contract - but, I don't care at this point. I originally signed a 2 year contract, of which one year has elapsed. I am so happy to hear that they (Nextel) think my contract is up, because now I can switch providers. I have already started to look at other plans and think I may go with Verizon. I don't want to point any fingers or mention any names (Nextel), but this particular company I was with (Nextel) was terrible with the customer service and even worse with the false promises when you sign up for service. I might look at a Trac Fone for the hubby, as he truely would only need one for emergencies. I use mine quite a bit more for business and I have to be able to port my number over, since I just had 500 business cards made up with my current cell #, so I don't think I can do a Trac Fone. I'll have to do some research. But I sure as hell will not be staying with THAT company (Nextel).

A productive day!!!

1 Responses to “a few little blurbs”

  1. Broken Arrow Says:
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    Nono, take the "quickies" if you want! Big Grin

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