November 2010

THIS Is a Disaster? More news from the insurance front

November 18, 2010

The insurance adjuster came by to see what was what with the air conditioning unit. Nice guy: in from San Antonio to help the local Hartford office cope with the flood of claims erupting from the late hailstorm. He said the air conditioner was pretty well bashed and thought the company would replace it. That [...]

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College Cooking Crash Course: Superior Christmas Present for Young Adults!

November 18, 2010

Have you seen what Frugal Scholar has been up to? She and her college-age kids have created a cookbook for young people living in cramped quarters, such as dorm rooms and studio apartments. This bunch does some awesome cooking outside of the dorm room, and so they have some mighty tasty, fast, cheap recipes in [...]

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Another interesting day forthcoming

November 17, 2010

So around 10:00 a.m. the insurance adjuster is supposed to show up. It’ll be interesting to hear what he has to say about the heat pump, the roof, and the CoolDeck. The air-conditioning dude who tried to sell me a capacitor for the allegedly destroyed unit (alleged by two other AC dudes) dropped by M’hijito’s [...]

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Bit$ and Piece$: Live-blogging from Hell

November 16, 2010

Another day, another dollar…in which I didn’t get to do anything I wanted to do but ended up working in front of the damn computer all of yesterday. Shoveled another mound of stoont papers off my virtual desk, but didn’t even get to write a blog post. And…for crying out loud, now as I sit [...]

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The ultimate frugalist’s candle

November 14, 2010

Aren’t these cool? Literally! Those candles are burning with a flame that doesn’t melt wax. Real candles: fake flames. I found a lifetime supply of LED-driven fake tea candles at Costco for about 18 bucks. Thought I could put them in the front windows to make some sorta low-key Christmas decorations, but they’re not tall [...]

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Moments of Fame

November 13, 2010

Money Obedience hosted the Carnival of Money Stories this week and kindly included Funny’s Some changes made tooodayyy…. Drat! I was going to include links to a bunch of the other very interesting and entertaining pieces that appeared in this week’s carnival, but my system is in full balking mule mode…it refuses to load the [...]

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