Best of Earn Give Save: February 2010

Wow, February just flew right on by, didn’t it?

Sure did.  And as we look to the outside, we see snow melting on the sidewalk, a sure sign that March has come, and that spring is [supposedly] just several weeks away.  Even so, let us take a look back at the month that was February 2010:

We started the month by taking a look at how Jules and I close our budget at the end of each month, including a new feature whereby we have been planning for major purchases in the future using a savings scoreboard.  Apple had recently announced a new product, and we digressed briefly to share thoughts and reactions to Apple’s iPad.  Soon after that we encountered a situation that, in a sense, forced us to blow our budget in the “dining” category.

I opened my first Roth IRA this past month, and Julie shared her latest grocery-buying-power sentiment, “i Heart Aldi’s.”  It was off to the movies for a review of the documentary “Maxed Out”, as we continued to get good use out of our Roku/Netflix setup for replacing cable TV.  We also took a look at the Dave Ramsey approach to purchasing a vehicle, which had been prompted by some nice discussion we had observed on Facebook.

In the final week of February, we examined this year’s process for filing our taxes, and with saving on the brain, we shared some thoughts on replacing the age old garage sale with one hosted by Amazon.  And finally, the shortest month of the year concluded with the shortest purchase of the year, that is, one that never actually happened.

And by far, the most popular post of February 2010 was our review of a great site called Alice, which allows the user to order household and grocery items for home delivery with free shipping.  We just made our second order of the year!