It is a fact that it is easier to spend money than to save it. But I have found that another greater problem is that there is a tendency to just use a credit card for purchases. This seems fairly nonthreatening, I mean, I just said, 'use a credit card'.
What I should have said was 'Borrow money by creating high interest credit card debt'.
I have been very careful for a few months now, not to overdo my spending, and it is paying off.
And, as the debts get less, the money I waste by giving it to credit card companies also gets less.
But it does feel good when I add things up, and see that I am making progress.

I can remember that the first PC we had had a hard drive that was 1.2 gig, and was reckoned to be massive!
Now we are into terabyte sizes. And the PC's are faster these days, so the larger sizes tend not to slow down the PC by any large degree.
A handy thing too, is that now we can get cases that use regular hard drives and make them into plug-in external drives, which are great for storing larger data things like movies etc.

I came across an interesting word the other day, it is 'bespoke'.
It is used mainly by old school men's tailors to describe a custom made suit, or other apparel.
I suppose, being related by the cloth being a part of the item, the same might be said for furniture and drapes.
So, p kaufmann fabrics have opened up the opportunity to save some money, and in some cases a lot of money, by having good quality furniture that has lost it's 'edge', to be re-upholstered using local craftsmen, and obtaining the fabic yourself. Just be careful of those large designs though, it can make that classic sofa look smaller!

We tend to think of a dollar as a piece of printed paper, a banknote, I guess it is called. But when a dollar could buy a lot more than it can these days, the dollar used to be a silver coin.
The various designs of coins in general are often named after the designer of the graphics that are on the coin. In the case of Morgan dollars, that was George T Morgan. Many of the coins were subsequently melted down, to make newer coins. This made the remaining coins even more collectible. There was also a release of older coins, that chaged the pricing structure, and also placed a lot of uncirculated, and higher quality coins onto the market, but the manufacture of Morgan dollars ended in the 1920's, making cheap morgan dollars a bit harder to find, and stabilizing the prices to make them a good investment.

I have noticed that in most past years, we get the snow pretty wwell set up solid on the ground by the end of DEcember, but I am looking out of my window here, and there seems to be a shortage of it this year.
We just had 2 days of rain. We don't need to shovel rain!
And then some people say that there is no such thing as Global Warming.
I believe that there definitely is, and what's more, Bring It On!

The hard drive in a computer is a fairly reliable thing. After all, they run for many hours, and seldom fail.
The problem is, that when they do fail, there is often data stored on the drive that gets lost.
When a drive fails, though, it is for only 2 main reasons, one is that the disk inside starts to rub and make expensive noises, and the other is when the little circuit board attached to the hard drive, burns out somehow.
Hubby had such a drive, and has hoarded it for over a year now. It was from the sme computer that I am using now, but when it went bad, we lost all outr old email addresses, as well as a load of photos that I had taken, and despie Hubby suggesting that I should back them up, I had failed to listen to him.
Anyway, cutting a long story short, he bought a replacement circuit board for just around 40 bucks or so, and I have the photo's that I thought were lost forever, now saved.
Just in case any of you ever get a burned out hard drive, here is a link to the website. Just follow the instructions and advice:
http://www.onepcbsolution.com/.
That's another address worth bookmarking.

The name "Wii" has always irritated me a bit. After all, it is hard to figure out how to say it. But more recently, it has become a more common word, and so "Wii" just say WE!
Anyway, joking apart, and excuse the pun, - I noticed that there are some good deals around as far as accessories for the Wii goes. They even include a special wii guitar, among other things.
They might not last to long though, probably just opening up some space for restocking after Christmas.

It is really sloppy outside today.
The weather got warmer, and it started raining with high winds, so the snow that we had the other day has become slush.
And that means that it is solid enough to sink into, and wet enough to flow over the tops of shoes and even boots.
On the good side though, the roads are free of ice and snow, and the bird do-do that was on the roof of my van has been washed off overnight.

Being horsey is whern you are into horses.
Funny word really, I mean if my Hubby is interested in cars, I don't call him car-ey.
Of course, seeing as he is from the UK, he is familiar with things like being horsey, and what english horse tack is.
As far as I know, the equipment associated with western style riding is not known as western horse tack, so the term 'tack' must come from jolly old England.

I have just weighed myself, and it seems that I have lost about 8 pounds. This time, it so happens that it was without the weight loss pills that I have used in the past, and work quite well.
Now, I figure that I will see if I can keep the new weight, and then improve on it once I am sure that it is a stable situation.
I have to admit though, I am starting to add a few pounds to my expected weight, just to factor in my age!