Debt Reduction 101

I read this article today over my lunch break and had to share it with you guys. It’s from the Minneapolis Star Tribune and documents the “back to basics” approach of Dr. James Eelkema who quit his job at a large family medicine clinic and set up his own shop. While this isn’t [...]

This article was in the January 22, 2010 edition of the New York Times: “Ready to Spend Bonuses, but Not to Boast.”
It’s bonus time for many of Wall Street’s elite and according to luxury retailers, these folks are shaking off their “frugal fatigue” and getting ready to spend their bonus money – discreetly, of [...]

No, I’m not making some social commentary in the cool alliteration of my blog title – I’m just recapping the sentiment of a New York Times op-ed piece that I read this morning called “My So-Called Wife.”
I found this article interesting. By no means am I the breadwinner of the family, but I am [...]

Goodwill seems to be everywhere these days. My boyfriend George Clooney is hosting a telethon to help Haiti that will feature my other boyfriend Robert Pattinson. (Oh wait … this is a public forum read by my husband. There’s no one but you, honey …) Irregardless of my Hollywood crushes, disaster [...]

I should preface this piece by saying that I have only told off two of my employers in my 10-year history of working … wait, that’s actually three times although I don’t think the first time really counts because I got all teary while doing it. While I feel like I have a strong [...]

Before my husband and I were married, he went without health insurance for seven months. He had switched jobs the summer before we got married and although it was anticipation of greater things (more chance of advancement, higher pay, a more stable future, less office politics), it was a temporary to permanent thing that [...]

My husband has a pretty intense hatred of commercials. If he is away from his television with the Tivo attached (I brought a cat to our marriage, he brought an entire Tivo), his hand is clutching the remote and flipping through channels at an impressive speed. At first, it annoyed me, but it’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m a big fan of Katy Wolk-Stanley’s blog “The Non-Consumer Advocate.” I particularly enjoyed a post she had today about an acquaintance’s blog called “Small Measures” – basically a how-to guide for simple, everyday living.
Although I’m probably more materialistic than I care to admit – there was something really refreshing about this [...]