Archive for October, 2009
Done and DONE!
It was rather anti-climatic. After an afternoon of baking and getting ready for Halloween parties, I decided to sit down at my desk and pay off my final credit card bill. I suppressed the urge to gleefully shout at the customer service representative who assisted me with my final $388.71 payment – “don’t [...]
Posted: October 30th, 2009 under Debt Reduction.
Comments: 9
Changes in consumption
One of my favorite “foodie” columns is Bitten by Mark Bittman which may be found in the New York Times.
Mr. Bittman’s latest column is “What We’re Eating” and featured this chart from Information Resources, Inc.
The data for this chart was mined between June 2008 and June 2009 and measures the Top 10 grocery [...]
Posted: October 17th, 2009 under Good Reading, Money Saving Strategies, Random!, Reader Input, Where My Money Goes.
Comments: 3
Scooting across the finish line
I have a hard time finishing projects – my chaotic mark can be witnessed in all sorts of places in my life – the unfinished novel (not to mention a bunch of stories that I’ve started, discarded, etc.), the recipe project I’ve been working on for about a zillion years where I’ve saved recipes from [...]
Posted: October 16th, 2009 under Debt Reduction, Everyday Living.
Comments: 6
The mystery of plumbing and why $2 is a good investment
Do you want to absolutely confound me? Talk technical to me.
Our town’s municipal utility informed hubby and I the other day that we have a malfunctioning water meter and that they would drop by sometime between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Thursday to take a look at it. (I love the [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2009 under Debt Reduction, Everyday Living, Money Saving Strategies, Relationships, Where My Money Goes, work.
Comments: 3
Ch-ch-ch-changes: The Auto Edition
I will never forget my first car – it was a 1988 two-door Pontiac Sunbird that was an electric teal shade. It had belonged to my cousin Jenny and bought for $1,200 when she decided to upgrade to a better car.
The Sunbird was more than a car or a mode of transportation [...]
Posted: October 7th, 2009 under Debt Reduction, Everyday Living, Random!, Relationships, Where My Money Goes.
Comments: 5
Happy birthday to the best money manager that I know
Today is my husband’s 32nd birthday. I’ve given a lot of thought over this post – I wanted to list out all of the frugal lessons that I’ve learned from him in our 10 years of friendship and now the two years that we’ve been living together.
And I haven’t come up with [...]
Posted: October 6th, 2009 under Everyday Living, Money Saving Strategies, Random!, Relationships, Where My Money Goes.
Comments: 1
This weekend’s awesome article roundup
Regular readers of this blog know that I have a second job on the weekends – working a 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. shift at the local cab company. One of the reasons that I like this job (since I’m not entirely fond of waking up at the buttcrack of dawn) is that the [...]
Posted: October 4th, 2009 under Debt Reduction, Everyday Living, Good Reading, Money Saving Strategies, Reader Input, Where My Money Goes, work.
Comments: none
Correction: Not so much “stuff”
When my cousin and I were loading my car full of totes on Friday, we were both taken aback by one particular tote that seemed to weigh about 90 pounds and took both of us to lift into my car. Now keep in mind – the tote itself wasn’t big, but I knew it [...]
Posted: October 4th, 2009 under Everyday Living, Random!, Relationships.
Comments: 3
An influx of “stuff”
One of the biggest leaps of faith that I ever took was when I left journalism and started my life down here in Rochester. And even though this involved one of the most idiotic tracks of thinking I’ve ever possessed (i.e. – I moved down here and didn’t have a job set up. [...]
Posted: October 3rd, 2009 under Debt Reduction, Everyday Living, Money Saving Strategies, Random!, Relationships, Where My Money Goes.
Comments: 3
Free theater night in the Twin Cities
Sorry for all of my readers who aren’t in the metro Minnesota area, but I heard about this link today and thought it was too cool not to post for my MN friends.
What is Twin Cities Free Night? This is from the web site: “This October, go to Twin Cities theater for free. [...]
Posted: October 1st, 2009 under Everyday Living, Money Saving Strategies, Random!.
Comments: 2