Green Panda Treehouse

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Photo Credit: Jake the Linux Geek I’m not talking about predicting the future. I’m talking about looking at possible expenses and including it into your budget. I uses to budget and not include things like car repairs. (I don’t really [...]

Photo Credit: Pascal Vuylsteker We finally got our economic stimulus check yesterday! During my lunch break, I’m depositing into the bank. Once it clears, we’re sending the whole amount $1,200 toward paying down the car loan. I’m excited about it. My husband is “happy for me”. It’s hard to be excited when he doesn’t exactly see the [...]

Photo Credit:  pashasha One year, I would like people to come to us instead of us driving to see them. Gas is so expensive! LOL, anyway, we still want to see family and friends, so we’re traveling up to Richmond, VA and then on Monday we’re going down to Fayetteville, NC. A nice relaxing 3 day [...]

Photo Credit: kozumel If you live in an area with a good transportation system, be thankful. You’ve just saved some money. Owning, maintaining, and insuring a car can be expensive. Getting repairs done a car can add up very quickly. The average rate for labor is $50-$120/hour. If you think you’re up to it, [...]

Photo Credit: cervus We didn’t switch to GEICO and it took longer than 15 minutes, but thanks to a phone call we saved money. My husband called Progressive to inform them of our move. He had to be switched a few times as we went from an agent in one state then one to the other state. [...]