Home Improvements!

My husband and I have been contemplating upgrading our heating and adding a cooling system since we bought our house. Last year we were paying $400 a month during the winter for propane just to heat the house. We have had two estimates done, and it appears that it will be roughly $8000 to change our heating over from hot water heating, to forced air heating, add air conditioning, and then also change our hot water heater over to electric. The estimate that we chose to go with also is going to be upgrading our breaker box. My husband and I have $4000 that we have saved for this and my mom and dad have graciously decided that they would like to cover the other half! We are SOOO blessed! I will let you know more about this process as soon as we begin!! I hope everything goes well!

~Katie

Phone Call

So, I came home from work one day this week and on my answering machine was the manager of the Taco Bell that I talked about in a previous post. The manager proceeded to justify why they no longer carry milk and the best he could come up with was that they "had no way to properly store it so that it did not spoil before someone bought it and that they did not want to serve substandard items to their customers?! Have they never heard of a fridge? HA! I find it silly, however was impressed that he called within a few days of me submitting a complaint!

~Katie

Strangest Thing

So, my husband and I both had today off so we decided to do our once a month shopping at Walmart. The closest Walmart to us is about an hour away so we only make the trip once a month. The reason I am telling you this story is because this is also one of the times we go out to eat with our two little girls. Today we chose to eat at Taco John's and get this, when I asked for milk, the guy taking our order looked at me weird and said, "Um, we don't have milk." To that I said, "No milk?" He said, no, but we have water?!" Are you kidding me? What restaurant doesn't have milk??? I have gone to the website and put in a "complaint". Seriously! I would have never thought I would have had a problem getting milk anywhere!!

Have any of you had this problem?

~Katie

Saturday Snail Mail

I have decided to begin putting together a list of things to blog about on a weekly basis and have decided that the one day that I am going to start with is Saturday. I'm going to call it Saturday Snail Mail nice huh?! My goal for the Saturday Snail Mail edition is to keep track weekly of all of the "goodies" that I get in the mail. I am actually going to post the first edition today as my in laws will be here later in the day and will stay through the weekend.

This week in the mail I received:

• SunSilk Straight to Perfection Shampoo/Conditioner & $1 coupon x2
• Ponds Clean Sweep Cleansing towelette (Walmart)
• Huggies Size 3 diaper & Wipe (Walmart)

I know this week isn't very much, but I didn't keep track very well either, so we will see the list grow hopefully next week.

~ Katie

Cean Carpet? What's that?

So, I have officially gone off the deep end! My husband and I are preparing for his parents arrival this weekend. For some reason I got an itch this morning to steam clean the carpets?! What is wrong with me? It's 100 degrees out and I sure could have found something better to do with my time! It's been awhile since the in laws have been up from Kansas so I wanted to make sure things looked clean! Last year at Christmas my parents got us a steam cleaner for our carpets, I am embarrassed to say that before today I had only used it ONCE! I had told myself that I would use it all of the time when we actually got it. I had plans to get it out after every spill or when I saw the need. What was I thinking? I spent about an hour on our living room carpet and it looks GrEaT, just like new... I have now decided that it really wasn't as bad/hard/time consuming as I once thought it was and have put steam cleaning the carpets on my monthly "To Do" list. It's really amazing how many of the "spots" from sippys that leaked disappeared like magic!! Thanks mom and dad much cheaper than renting the equipment or hiring someone else to do it! All in all I spent approx. $6 on the solution

~Katie

CashCrate

So, I've recently received an e-mail from FrugalDad in regards to CashCrate. I have been a member for awhile but actually forgot I even had an account. He states that a person can earn $10 the first time they log i. I am going back through the site and attempting this again. I will keep you posted on how I do!! For those of you who are interested in what CashCrate is, head on over to FrugalDad where he answers questions people have had. If you would like to join, just follow the link, the more people that follow...the more sign up bonus' I receive!!! :)

~Katie

College Frustrations!

Wow! It's been a long time since I have had time to sit down and pt some thought into a post. However, I have been thoroughly frustrated with the college that I attend and the financial aid process. I currently am taking one class every six weeks, however currently I am taking two classes. I received an e-mail on Monday of last week stating that my account balance was $5000 over due. "Wait a minute" I said to myself...I am only half way through my year (I started in October)...plus I have been working on getting a private loan since January to cover the extra that financial aid will not cover. So, to make a long story short, both my private loan as well as the Stafford loans are set to be disbursed in August....guess what?! They need my $5000 in order for me to keep taking classes and are refusing to work with me even though I have these two loans coming through in August! Ugh!! I am/was so frustrated!!! I can't believe these people are allowed to do this?! I told the financial aid lady that I was not frustrated with her but that I think that all college students need to take a financial aid class before they are allowed to attend college!!! She laughed and agreed! Has anyone else had a similar experience?

~ Katie