Blogging Away Debt

Ways I Save Money: Grocery Shop in the Morning

The best deals can often be found in the morning hours at the grocery store. That’s when department managers go through perishable products and mark them down. One of my favorite things to find reduced is bagged salad lettuce. Although it may be close-dated, it’s still good to eat as long as the lettuce isn’t brown. We would then have a salad for dinner that night.

I also head straight to the meat department for marked down ground beef. Our store calls it “yesterday’s beef” and I have found it as low as $1.69/pound. That is a great deal for where I live. I buy up to 12 packages if they have them and freeze them immediately when I get home. That lasts us quite a few weeks.

It’s also good to shop in the morning because the department managers are usually working. They are the ones with the authority to mark down products. If you happen to find a poor looking (but still good) head of lettuce among better looking ones, you can probably negotiate a lower price if you ask.

My Life is Too Dependant on the Internet

by Tricia

Today was not a good day. I log on in the morning to “go to work” and I can’t get online. I call the DSL company, only to spend about an hour an a half doing diagnostics. In the end they finally tell me that it’s not a problem on my end.

It turns out that the entire area where I live was without internet and cell phones because a fiber optic cable was cut. What irks me is that my big DSL company is so detached from their customers that they didn’t realize this and relay that information to me. Instead I wasted an hour and a half of my time on the phone. I ended up finding out about the cable because I saw it on my evening news. I wish a local company offered DSL.

I probably shouldn’t be so hard on them, but when my internet is down – I can’t work. I have people depending on me and I can’t do anything. That is the worst feeling in the world for me. Of course, I have internet now thank goodness. But with missing today, I will probably be working tonight and this weekend to catch everything up. I’m not looking forward to that.

I love working at home, but being at the mercy of your internet provider can be a major drawback. But overall, I wouldn’t trade my job. Having my son come in my office when he wakes up in the morning and giving me a hug and telling me to have a good day working is priceless 🙂