Marcia Benton

Credit Cards, at first we get excited about them. We turn 18 get our credit cards and start shopping. The cards bring us great bliss, but then reality starts to set in. We get our monthly statements and start making the minimum payments that are required to keep the credit cards happy. But in the [.

It used to be that I only used my computer to check my email, do my banking, and as a storage device for my pictures.  But now I am lost without my computer and internet.  The things that I need to survive have change.  We were taught that all we need to survive it food, [...]

It’s tax season, I know no new news. Every year I sit down and go through all of my receipts and organize them, type the numbers into an excel spreadsheet, add up the numbers and hope that I didn’t miss anything.  Then I go to my CPA and hope that he tells me about all [...]

We all know about the “lovely” situation that the economy is in today. But I wonder how many of us actually understand how we got there. I just found this great video clip explaining what happen, in easy to understand terms, and its pretty entertaining. Please check out this link: http://vimeo.com/3

How do I get out of debt? How would your life change if you no longer had to pay your mortgage, or have no credit card debt?  Would you vaction more, spend more time with the kids, volunteer more, or just live with a little less stress?  Watch the video and let me show an [...]

Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today! It’s my 12th Anniversary on Feb. 15th.  It’s amazing that we have been together this long.  Marriage is always full of ups and downs, but I fill like we are on an up swing,  and maybe we will only go up from here.

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Processionary caterpillars travel in long, undulating lines, one creature behind the other. Jean Hanri Fabre, the French entomologist, once lead a group of these caterpillars onto the rim of a large flowerpot so that the leader of the procession found himself nose to tail with the last caterpillar i