All Forum Posts by: Ceili Cornelison

@Alicia Prokos Happy to help :) LMK if you need any assistance; website architecture, setup & maintenance are the bread and butter of my day job.

Checking a domain name's availability on a domain name seller's site (eg, GoDaddy) will always run you the risk that the domain itself will sweep it up by that seller. A good option is checking on whois, which is provided by a party which does not sell domains (and as such would have no reason to steal your domain), or alternatively by using the terminal-level whois command if you are familiar with your command line or UNIX at all. It takes like 10 seconds -- if you want to PM me your domain names I can run that kind of search on them and let you know, if you don't have the skills yourself.

When using Mint, on the budgets page, if you click in to 'Edit Details' of any one budget category, there is a checkbox option for 'Start each new month with the previous month's leftover amount'. This might be really helpful to you for your car situation -- if you know you spend an average of ~230 a month, set it for $230 a month. If this is a month where you don't do anything but put gas in your car, it will roll over to the next month, and you will be able to absorb an unexpected $400 expense. That's how I do it at least.