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Thanks to Randy for today’s link – it’s an incredible statistical analysis of any US Zip Code! Wanna know what the population of your community is? Wanna know the race-mix in your community? How about the average income? ZipSkinny amazed me!

Check it out here.

Croc-y

3.27.2008 — 12 Comments

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The UPS man just rang the doorbell and delivered the Sheets-family two new pairs of Crocs – a brand/style of footwear I had previously promised to NEVER buy.

I’m wearing them right now. Don’t mock ’em till you’ve tried ’em!

Got Gas?

3.27.2008 — 4 Comments

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ING-DIRECT

3.27.2008 — Leave a comment

ing.gifSome of you may know of our family-decision to begin the steps towards Financial Peace by participating in Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University.

Step One of the program is to save $1,000 as an emergency fund.

We’ve done that twice now. :)

We’ve had to use it for two emergencies and we’re now building it back up a third time – each time it was a “life saver” because before the program, these “emergencies” would’ve gone onto a 15% interest-rate credit card. No more, Praise the Lord!

In our class we were directed to an online bank, “ING-DIRECT” to pursue a higher-interest rate yield on our Emergency Savings Fund.

It’s too good of a deal NOT to share with readers of stevansheets.com.

Chances are that your local bank is giving you a whole .5% on your crazy little savings account through them. ING, on the other hand, offers a whopping 3%! You’re reading that right! 3-percent. All you have to do is open up an account with them that directly links to your bank-account and they’ll confirm your information and you can start saving TODAY!

We’ve done this and opened our account with $250 which in turn they gave us an extra $25 into our account for opening with $250 or more. They’re also asking us to refer new members who may be interested and for every referral we give them they’ll give us another $10 in our account!

If you’re interested, at all, check them out at www.ingdirect.com; if you’re interested in opening an account with $250 or more, leave a comment and I’d love to send you a referral link to your e-mail that would in-turn, bless our family with another $10 towards our debt-free living!

So tonight before our family-dinner out at Fazoli’s, we stopped in at Wal-Mart’s garden-shop and picked up this year’s garden-goodness!

After Ella’s bath and after she was down-for-the-count and Jess was over at Praise Team practice, I headed into the kitchen to begin my farming duties.

Here’s the rundown:

25 corn-pods.
6 pea-pods.
6 pepper-pods.
6 tomato-pods.
12 marigold-pods. (to keep the varmints out)
30 green bean-pods.
12 cucumber pods.

All were planted 2-seeds to a pod and with tender loving care by yours truly.

Now they sit in the back foyer and you can bet the web-world will be updated on their status frequently (when they sprout at least).

Here’s the farm so far:

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Now if I can just get the rest of this snow to melt I can begin work on the seeds’ new home in our backyard!