Fun TV facts

• Environmentally Friendly TVs may not really be so.- Right now TV’s have their energy star rating based on how much power it uses WHEN IT IS OFF. 
• Plasma TVs can use as much power as your refrigerator- Roughly $78 dollars a year with the typical American viewing schedule.
• Your old TV only costs $11 a year in energy.- and it can’t be broken by someone pressing on the screen.

So before you do your holiday shopping, ask what the thing will really cost you.

 Anyways, with the recent drop of the interest rates by the fed, keep an eye out for good refinance deals to pay less interest on loans you already have, and perhaps combine a few loans into a lower-interest vehicle.  Christmas credit card spending can really put the hurt on you, avoid using credit cards unless you can pay it off in full.  Try writing credit card purchases into your check register, that way you can write a big check and pay them off at the end of each month.

1. If something inconvenient can happen it DOES happen- mainly the landlady wanting to come into our apartment a month before we are scheduled to move out.  I suggested she wait until the 9th of November so the apartment would be clean and empty.  She said, we’ll be there around noon.  She provided adequate notice but sometimes I have to wonder about people.
2. Friends are awesome all the time, but they are DOUBLE awesome during a move-  All of you lending your backs, brains, or vehicles to moving all of our junk to Madison, I anticipate an overflowing well of gratitude to each of you.
3. Packing-  Sorry, I just don’t like the feel of newspaper or cardboard, I get to feel both a lot this next week.
4. Simplify- If you’re moving it’s a great time to get rid of junk.  How do I define junk? (Junk= anything I’ve had for 9+ months that I can’t sell)  Junk goes in dumpsters.
5. Microwave Dinners- Easy way to make cleaning out the fridge less of a chore and more of an adventure.  We’re basically only eating microwave dinners to encourage ourselves to cook all that other food we’d purchased with the intent to cook it.
6. More to come- I’m sure the hardcore readers of Financingyourfamily.com have some interesting moving stories for me.  Feel free to comment about them.

What this means

1. I will still moderate the comments and respond to comments
2. I still may post during the moving time period
3. I probably won’t post more than once or twice a week

I thank you for your continued support of this site, and look for a frequency increase around the end of November.

• Ghost Stories- Make up your own, and tell them while hiding in a blanket fort with a flashlight under your chin for best effect.
• Leaves- Enjoy the changing colors of the leaves, and a few weeks later enjoy raking them into large piles that the neighborhood kids will crash themselves into.  You will soon get smart and pay one of them to keep your yard raked for the rest of the fall.
• Thanksgiving- Invite as many people as you can over to your house, there’s only so much turkey one can eat.
• Football- Fall is prime football season, local high-school games are pretty cheap no matter where you live, and for additional fun, complain to one of the chaperones watching the student section about a student and watch them get booted from the game.

I hope everyone has a fun Friday, feel free to share any of your Frugal Fall Fun tips here.