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The Price of Peace of Mind

January 6th, 2010 at 03:33 am

In my post yesterday I mentioned about how the situation where I am living is going downhill. One of the tensions is the issue of dishes.

So, today after work I stopped at Albertson's and went to the paper goods aisle.

For $6.88, I got:

100 paper plates
50 Foam Cups (hot chocolate, cider)
20 Party Cups (juice/water/milk)
48 piece variety set of plastic ware

So, the materials cost $6.88, but the value of achieving peace of mind (at least regarding this one issue)? Priceless!

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After thinking about it carefully, I decided to not get a portable DVD player. It just would not really get enough use to justify the expense. Once school starts on the 19th, I doubt I'll have very much free time at all - either at work, or at home. So, I can make do with two streaming movies from Netflix a month, and then take the physical DVD's to my mom's house when I go visit her.

What I really do need to get is a printer with scanning capability, and a replacement power cord for my netbook.

Although I can't get on the internet at the gym via Wi Fi, I can use my netbook to type up discussion postings and journal entries for my classes. I have the feeling that I will definitely need to be spending my time wisely this coming semester - there is a lot of reading required for my Children's Lit class, as well as quite a bit of writing. My two other classes also appear to have a good bit of requirements. I don't think this coming semester will be as easy as the last one. I'm ready for it though. Big Grin

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If it works out with the student on
Thursday, and I can just find tutoring students for 6 more hours a week ... I am going to quit my job at the gym. Or .. maybe cut back to only two days a week ..

10 hours a week of tutoring would give me $1000/month income (pre-tax) which would be $150/mo more than my gym income at 29.5 hours. I also would save on tolls. I might save on gas, but that would depend on how the hours are spread out.

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When I stopped by Compass today to deposit my paycheck, there was a couple up ahead of me at the teller. The husband was asking the teller what was the "inactivity fee" about that they'd gotten a letter about. She explained that it was just a letter letting them know well in advance of the change in terms, and that all they had to do was make one charge per year to avoid it. They didn't seem to like that idea very much, and were considering closing the account. The teller than used the "it's good to have in case of an emergency!" They ended up not closing it.

(I wasn't trying to listen in .. the participants were just loud!)

4 Responses to “The Price of Peace of Mind”

  1. boomeyers Says:
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    I got a color printer for my daughter at Target that does the copy/print/scan features for only $28.88! But that was at the "back to school" sale. It was an Epson. If you have to buy something, sign up for Mypoints and buy it through Office Depot for instant points!

    Great compromise on the paper products! Smile

  2. frugaltexan75 Says:
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    That would be a great price! How is it with ink?

  3. dmontngrey Says:
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    I do NOT recommend Epson if you like to buy aftermarket cartridges. Mine is sitting unused because it wont accept any of the cartridges I bought for it. Several years ago, you could use anything you wanted in an Epson. Not anymore apparently. This was my warranty replacement after I bricked the first one using aftermarket cartridges - Epson doesn't know that though! This one doesn't appear to be bricked since it just tells me the Epson cartridge is empty if I put it back in the printer. The last one would say it was not compatible. I still can't decide if I want to buy the Epson ink (not really...) or replace the printer with something else. I do have another printer I'm using in the meantime though. That's the "nice" printer, and I didn't really want to use it for coupon printing.

  4. frugaltexan Says:
    1262810034

    What about Lexmark? The lowest priced printers I've found so far are lexmark and epson.

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