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Happy Valentine’s Day!

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We had a nice little Valentine’s Day in our household. I made some heart shaped egg biscuits and some heart shaped homemade buttermilk pancakes for breakfast. They weren’t perfect heart shaped, but enough to get the general idea of what I attempted 😉

Let’s tally up what was spent on each of us (doesn’t count the cost of breakfast):

Our Son: $6.99 – a Deal or No Deal Case with Candy (here’s what it looks like), pencils and a card

My Husband: $2.99 – chocolate and a card

Me: $1.00 – cards

Grand Total: $10.98

Which one was the best gift? My son would argue that his gift was the best because he loves the case for putting stuff in and he loves the pencils (he’d take pencils as a gift over candy any day). I would say that the best gift was my gift. My husband spent $1.00 to get a set of Thank You cards. He filled them all out, thanking me for different things that I do. They were planted around the house for me to find.

One was under my pillow and I was completely oblivious to it last night, which my husband found funny. I guess I even put my arm under the pillow and knocked it on the floor so he had to re-situate it (once I knew I was on a treasure hunt I later looked under my pillow and found it). Another one was in the cupboard by the glasses so I’d see it when I went to get a glass of water. The last one that I found was pretty clever. I begged my husband for hints and he wouldn’t budge. He just said that I will definitely find it today. Sure enough, I did. He snuck one in with the mail. If you have been reading my blog for a while, you know I like mail.

What was in the cards meant a lot and the fact my husband hid them in places he knew where I’d come across them (showing how well he knows me – or perhaps how predictable I am LOL) made $1.00 go a long way. It’s food for thought when I get something for him next year. I think we should also do something similar to that for our son.

$2,000 More at Our Disposal

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I’ve been hearing buzz about credit cards lowering credit limits. It makes sense they are trying to reign in all that available credit floating around out there. That is why I was so surprised to get a letter in the mail stating that my credit limit was increased.

I haven’t requested it so I do find this increase odd. The only reason they gave for the increase was that we were great customers. Hmm…it really is odd timing. About a week ago I found myself starting at the LCD TVs again and found one that was really pretty. Maybe they were spying on me and the credit limit increase is to try to lure me into buying one LOL.

Or, they noticed that we used to have a balance and only paid the minimum. Maybe they are trying to get the “great customer” back.

All I know is that I am going to be so glad when it’s time to start closing some cards. It’s not because of temptation, it’s just because I’m tired of them. They are no longer the friends they used to be.