A couple of weeks ago I noticed that our microwave was nasty dirty. I put cleaning it off another couple of weeks until yesterday when I decided it was time to just get it over with. I started scrubbing with a sponge and gunked the sponge up with what can only be described as sludge and scratched the paint off the door(not cool man). I was about to give up when I remembered something I had seen on How clean is your house – if you ever need motivation to get off your butt and clean this show will do it. Anyway, on there they said the easiest way to clean a messy microwave is to get a bowl, put lemon juice in it, and microwave for 5 minutes. I was skeptical but I did it. After the 5 minutes I took the bowl out and wiped and stuff just came right off NO SCRUBBING. Now don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t all pretty and shiny but it was way better then scrubbing that crap off. After about 5 more times there were definitely parts that were sparkling and there are still parts that need to be cleaned some more. For me, I’m a lazy cleaner on my best day and this worked great. I could set the microwave for 5 minutes go do whatever and then come back and wipe and then repeat.

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We are officially just an antenna house now so I decided to see what else I could cut out to save some money. I did some looking around and found out that I could use limewire to download music onto our Zunes so I’ve cancelled our Zune marketplace membership. When all is said and done just cancelling those two things we are going to be saving a little bit more than $1000 a year. That is a huge chunk of change!!!

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Our satellite has been out since Sunday and you know what it hasn’t been missed. Well that isn’t exactly true. I really miss the ability to pause and rewind. Other than that I’m just fine with the antenna TV. I was completely shocked at how many channels are available on the antenna. Maybe they were always there and I just didn’t know it. I always had cable growing up and at college and since being with Craig we’ve gone back and forth between cable and satellite depending on who had the better price. It will be nice to have that extra $70 a month to send to credit cards or food or whatever little essential pops up. The way Craig’s work is going it sounds like we made the right decision. They only have 3 jobs for the month of January. I wasn’t sure how bad that was until Craig said that they are talking about sending guys home for a couple of weeks. YIKES!! I’m not sure what kind of impact that will have on us, Craig is a service guy so he doesn’t work on those jobs. He doesn’t seem too worried so I guess I’ll take my cue from him.

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