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  I have the smallest backyard ever!  At least, one of the smallest backyards in my neighborhood.  One of my biggest issues with my backyard is that I can't turn the lawn mower around while mowing the lawn. So, after three summers of using a freebie lawn mower that was on it's last leg when I got it, I've decided that this is the last summer I will struggle with the large lawn mower. My search began with browsing my standard internet sites, Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot.  I decided on the type of lawn mower that I wanted.  A small ...

Original recipe here from Made It, Ate It, Loved It How do you make your sweet and sour chicken?  I've seen so many different recipes and each of them tastes completely different. Growing up, sweet and sour chicken always included pineapple and those little hard noodle looking wheat things.  I was never a big fan. I recently made this sweet and sour chicken which was delicious but I would actually prefer it to be more sour.  What do you use to make your chicken sour?  The recipe above uses vinegar. Please share your favorites! ...

Last week, we discussed how to reconcile your checking account based on your projections.  This week, we will begin reconciling the savings account as well. In our projections example, the first month we transfer to the savings account is April.  To reconcile this transaction, begin by reconciling the checking account the same as previous months. When you get to the 'Transfer' line, C37 in our example, we will use an equation to get the total amount to transfer.  You could also grab the transfer amount from the Projections page but I prefer to use the equation because it acts as ...

  I started this summer off by making a smoothie of some form every day after work.  While we are getting closer to fall, it’s time to get in our last few summer smoothies of the year. Before getting into the ingredients, I use a Bella Sport single serve blender.  You can see the blender bottle in the red smoothie picture.  The blender was $15 and I am now on my third blender because the gasket keeps breaking.  I’m wondering if it would make sense to get a better blender or to just keep replacing the gaskets.  Any ideas? I ...

Last week, we learned how to use our spreadsheet to build a savings account or rainy day fund.  This week, we will use our spreadsheet to reconcile our monthly balance of the new checking account. Let's begin by labeling our tabs.  I've labeled our current worksheet 'Projections' and then labeled a new worksheet 'Checking'. Open the Checking account tab and begin by building the headers.  I started my labels in cell A1 and used the following labels: A1: Date B1: Transactions C1: Amount D1: Running Total I also made my row 1 Bold because I find it easier to read ...