Home and Dollars

 I was looking back at my Northern Tool account to see when I bought the sprayer, and it must have dropped off my account history, so I thou...

The kit from Costco came with a flour, but I wanted to put it on piers and I wanted 10/12 foot pieces of lumber, so I bought that separate. ...

Pumpkin carving contest winner Just wanted to note two things quickly.  My sister grew a bunch of pumpkins for her wedding at the end of...

Received our property tax statement for this year and the estimated valuation for next year... The value of our house: 2011 - 390k 2012 ...

Just paid for our new life insurance policy. $500,000 for me, 20 year term for $322 a year. $250,000 for Jen, 20 year term for $122 a yea...

I enjoyed this summary of the reasons that companies announce layoff early.  The first is my particular favorite, in order to reduce severan...

I believe this is what the occupy wall street protests are about.  If you click on the link there are number of other charts that illustrate...

Well it has been two years (didn't burn as much the first year) since we built the house, so it is time to have the chimney cleaned and ...

Received our MN Property Tax rebate.  $940 on a tax bill of just under $5000.  That is pretty nice, does that mean that we didn't make a...

We purchased a new mini-van in the beginning of August, and traded my 2005 TDI Golf in.  I had purchased an extended warranty on it when I b...

I received an email today, that I didn't have enough money to process a withdraw from my savings account for my auto payment.  This is t...

Sharebuilder (ING Direct) is offer a promo code for current subscribers! Get $50 for depositing $100 each month till 2012. A $50 return o...

When we bought the minivan we traded in my 2005 VW Golf TDI.  So here are the final gas charts: 20 Fill-up rolling average Days ...

So we had been planning on purchasing a van for awhile, and with Madelyn's due date getting so close, we thought we would check out mini...

ING Direct is having a sale , with some pretty good deals today and tomorrow. $126 for opening a checking account and direct depositing int...

We are working on placing river rock about the house.  Looking at the cost of buying it bags from Menards (1/2 ft ³ for around $2 on sale), ...

We received a check from the state for $179, so apparently I didn't do our taxes correctly and they were able to figure out where I went...

Recently Lockheed decided to close the doors of the it's facility in Eagan, unfortunately that meant I was out of a job.  The announceme...

Recently Jen and I both switched from ATT to T-mobile prepaid.  It makes sense for us, because we don't use our minutes each month and m...

Well our old house is officially out of our hands now. We closed last Friday, went pretty smoothly except that our realtor didn't show ...