Archive for November, 2008
So our oldest daughter (who just turned 7) had a birthday on Nov 19th. We have a family policy – big birthdays every other year only. This year was the off-year, so we told her just 3 people. We still wanted them all to have lots of fun and rather than just have a small party, we piggy-backed an activity that was already scheduled at our church. The Primary organization was having a craft day on the same weekend as the party. So, naturally we just turned that INTO the party 
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I came across this web site today, which allows you to create a card for people suggesting some other inexpenive options to traditional Christmas gifts.
Check it out (from our friends at I Will Teach You To Be Rich) http://nochristmasgiftsthisyear.com/
Last week, our van died. It was a cruel, fast death. The head gasket blew, engine light was flashing and the van produced a noxious smell with fumes and smoke. Not pretty. Luckily a friend was able to help me get where I needed to go. Once the dust settled, we got the van towed to a repair shop for an estimate. They estimated $2050. My goodness! Having looked up the selling price of the van, I knew that this repair would cost more than the entire value of the van.
[For those who has experience the same problem, a class-action law suit against GM has been settled and the details and claim forms are available here.]
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Here’s a portion of the email sent to existing users:
We at CalendarBudget love you and your feedback.
We are happy to announce that we have entered into a Beta period (for a few months) during which time access will be completely free.
We are making this move to introduce a number of new features such as auto-consolidation from bank transaction exports, tutorials and other great things that will make managing your finances even easier. The beta period will give us sufficient time to ensure that these important features are working properly and to incorporate your feedback before charging you for them.
We hope to get through this beta period soon (around February/March) and deliver these high quality features you’ve been asking for.
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