Money Matters

Google Spank – Part 2

by Christine on November 15, 2007

If you are a blogger and have experienced yet ANOTHER spanking from Google let me say, my heart is with you. Three months ago, my blog here at Starryskye was a Page Rank 4 – now, as of last night it is a Page Rank 0. Bloggers around the globe are being downgraded simply because

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Number Crunching

by Christine on November 13, 2007

I *HATE* budgeting. Well, okay. Let me rephrase … I hate budgeting when I KNOW that I will be wayyyy over the amount of money needed to pay for everything. We’re in the process of moving, so we will not only have to pay this months mortgage on our not-yet-rented house, but we will also

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Tech Bargains

by Christine on November 12, 2007

My hubby is a tech-geek; he even built our desktop PC we affectionately call “The Beast” (like, Frankenstein perhaps?). He bought most if not all of the parts for the PC online. It would have been nice to have a consolidated place to find all the bargains that we needed to build a cheap, but

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Budgeting, Life … Something

by Christine on October 11, 2007

So, I found a few houses that I .. er .. WE (meaning, Alan too) like. They are each in our “price range” and are in great neighborhoods. I forgot that we have to come up with not only rent but deposit .. So, my quicky credit card payoff plan will have to wait a

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Using Loans for Good

by Christine on October 4, 2007

Let me start off by stating that our bank owns us. I was having a conversation with a friend the other day regarding consolidation loans or maybe even a refinance on a current loan to help her get out of debt. I know that personally, we have a consolidation loan and a car loan from

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