When Doing Your Checkbook

There are occasions that checking can get on your nerves. It's good to call the bank when everything is quiet. If your banking service's phone service is crackly and too slow. It's best to keep receipts and all your local transactions to keep in a folder or some place safe instead of relying on the bank phone number or computers alone. Write down your transactions you know of on the phone, Paper is easy to write on but if you  keep recipts, transaction history and you will be a whole lot happier with the result of finding your correct balance after everything is finished.

What's Your Price of Coffee?

samantha jean taylor, Yahoo! Contributor Network

Coffee, It's everywhere and you can't leave the house without it in the mornings. Some of us have a hot cup of cappachino or dark roast Columbia blend. It doesn't make a difference what blend or how you drink it. It's still going to affect your pocketbook either way.

Instead of going out for a cup, individuals have resorted to brewing at home with grocery store specialty items. Grocery stores have capitalized on products ranging in different flavors including brands of the resteraunt like Duncan or Starbucks. There are a number of items ranging from drink straws, special blends, and creamers with different flavors.

Keureg and Gevalia are two companies that have special machines and one cup systems. They are extremely expensive and taste no different from the regular coffee blends. Some coffee brands blend their coffee to taste better than Keureg or Gevalia without having to buy an extra machine or one cup packs. Starbucks and Duncan brands relieve the consumer from having to pay extra for great coffee. That is why you never go wrong with Mr. Coffee or regular coffee pot brands of machines.

If you are spending a lot more on coffee at work or home, it could be that you go out to much for coffee. If you are spending too much just go to your local grocery store and buy your favorite coffee house brand whether it's Starbucks or Duncan.

A Neat Dinner That Costs Less

I had a memory when I was a child about eating my mother's cabbage and cheese dish. She punished me by not eating. Back then, I wouldn't eat anything and I was too skinny. They had to practically put it in me. I am grateful to my mother and father for taking care of me the way they had too. We didn't have much but one another.

My mom and I got together and fixed a dish similar to the one that I had when I was a kid. The dish was a bed of cabbage, ground beef and shredded cheddar cheese. Mom first cooked the cabbage by steaming it until it was firm but tender. She browned and shredded ground beef and laid it on top of the cabbage and then put the cheese on the very top of the ground beef. It was VERY delicious.

I triggered a memory of achy bones and muscles back then and I just didn't want anything to eat. I didn't want to eat anything regardless whether I liked it or not. I found that mom meant business when I had to eat something. I was poor and sickly then. Now I am too fat and need to lose some weight. I remember back then it was like a nightmare. Now I am too fat and need to give some of my weight away!!!