CyberCJH's Blog

Yay! We’ve been talking about it since March and today, we finally consolidated our cell phone plans into one FamilyShare plan.

We (me, Christina & Fely) are sharing the FamilyShare Select 1,400 plan. Our annual savings (compared to paying separately as we were currently doing) will be around $480/year. Not to be sniffed at.

If, after a couple of months, we realize 1,400 minutes was overkill, we will downgrade to the 700 minute plan. This will save us an additional $200/year if we decide to do so.

That brings our total annual budget cuts to $2,766. That money will buy a lot of diapers, wipes and formula.

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The movers are coming out this evening to give us a quote.

These are the same movers we used two years ago when we moved and we were very happy with them.

The house search continues in earnest …

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Went to Target tonight. Returned the Aerobed since we found a cheaper one at costco.com. While I was there, I picked up some Similac formula, Bounce dryer sheets, All laundry detergent, Breyers and Klondike ice cream and Meow Mix cat food. Oh yeah, and some Aveeno lotion.

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Today is a bad day.

After repeated calls to our landlord’s management office over the past 3 months pressing them for a lease renewal on our house and despite repeated assurances from them that a new lease would be forthcoming, I get a call from them today (13 days before our lease is scheduled to end) that the lease, in fact, will not be renewed because the owner wants to sell the house at a price far higher than what comparable houses are selling for.

I don’t want to over pay for a house, especially in this market and this economy. So, a move looks to be in our future.

I called our real estate agent and we’re going to start looking for a new house as we go on a month-to-month lease where we’re living now.

Stay tuned…

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Last night, I took nine steps backwards nine years into the past.

I downgraded from Microsoft Money Plus (version 17) to Microsoft Money 2000 (version 8).

Why?

• Microsoft has discontinued the Money suite of software.
• Microsoft wants their Money users to adopt Quicken as the alternative.
• I loathe Quicken.
• Starting with Money Plus (2008) Microsoft required you to activate the Money software in order to use it.
• After 01/31/2011, Microsoft will no longer allow you to activate Money software. This means if you buy a new PC and want to continue to use Money Plus on that machine, you’re screwed since you’ll be unable to activate the software.

Since I had a copy of Money 2000 which doesn’t require software activation, I installed it and transferred all my accounts over to it.

I must say it’s surprising how much functionality existed in Money 2000 versus what’s in Money Plus (2008). And boy, is it ever faster.

Incredible. Tell me again why I’ve upgraded 8 times since then?! I guess I’m an idiot.

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