Archive for the 'money-related' Category

Just in it for the money?

Friday, June 13th, 2008

You know what really bugs me (this time)?! It’s when people find out that my DH is a rock climber and they automatically say, “Gee, I hope he got a good life insurance quote” or “I hope you got him insured”. Of course, he’s insured!  But saying that tells me that you think I only [...]

Should have gotten a bigger one!

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

When I bought my laptop, all I wanted it for was emailing, using the internet and occasionally downloading some music. But since I’ve had it, I’m realising I should have chosen a laptop with more ram and a larger hard drive.
With the amount of photos we take, my hard drive is very quickly filling up [...]

On hold

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

I had to call our insurance company this morning because I need to find out whether I need to add DS16 on our car insurance now that he has his learner’s permit. I want to make sure that he and my car are covered in case something happens. I was waiting on hold for ages [...]

Gotta love cash back!

Monday, May 5th, 2008

We have been looking for ways to cut costs and save some money.
DH wasn’t happy with the amount of money we were paying for our car insurance so I did a bit of research and found I could pay less and if we don’t make a claim in three years, we get 10% of our [...]

Saving money from the start

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

So, we went to the bank to open up a couple of savings accounts for DS16. he receives his own “youth allowance” now so he needed an account with an atm card to access his money. I also wanted to open a “bonus saver” type account for him so he can put money away each [...]