Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the monthly archives:
I have to repost this link by Jonathan. I’m not sure how I feel about this post and the posting over at Make Love Not Debt. I had this huge post written about my relationship with my parents and with money, but I don’t think I want to brave the moonbats on the internet to [...]
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LAMoney Guy has a really good post about commuting and how much it really costs you.
The calculator on it is the best part!
One of the newest blogs I’ve liked is City Girl’s Financial Blog. This post about buying Bay Area real estate is so true.
Financial Genetics at My Open Wallet, by Madame X.
A call for [...]
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I hate to call them ‘beancounters’ but lunch on Wednesday was a pretty amusing lesson in frugality. So someone in our office is leaving and we decided to take him out to lunch. The Accounting team joined us and composed over 50% of the group.
We went to some yucky pan-Asian cuisine place.* There is an [...]
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CNNMoney reports that GridPoint has a device about the size of a filing cabinet which will store power much like a UPS. But instead of going on and off during a power outage, it will pull power down off the grid when it’s cheap and release the energy when it’s expensive, thereby getting the user [...]
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So frequently I am in a daze lately and today I forgot my wallet. I had no money for lunch. I borrowed money from a co-worker and now I owe him $15 instead of the $5 from yesterday’s group lunch. (Another story posting tomorrow.) I was going to eat leftovers for lunch but that would [...]
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Three of my favorite PF Bloggers have banded together to make QueerCents, Caitlin, Dawn, and Nina. I admire each of these three women for their common sense and thrift. They each have financial wisdom to pass on to us, queer or not. (Caitlin is godmother to this blog because she’s the first person to [...]
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Welfare Brat by Mary Childers
It was a really good memoir about growing up urban poor. Her mother was on welfare with 6 kids. If ever a person was motivated to leave poverty it was Mary, the 3rd of 6 kids and the de facto oldest at home for most of the book. Her story of [...]
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NPR just ran a story about Individual Development Accounts as part of their radio series on Poverty in America.
I liked this one because it focuses on IDA’s. I found a directory site through the NPR story and checked it out. Virginia has quite a few programs, even one focused on prisoners who’ve been released, another [...]
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Drivers are purposely running out of gas.
I think on the commute I have, that would make a lot of people hate you really bad. I-66 has Metro rails to divide the highway, but the Dulles Toll Road doesn’t. Rubbernecking is awful on the toll road and they just love to see who’s waiting by the [...]
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Claire is looking for a periwinkle blue bridesmaid dress. I have one in my closet right now! I wore it to my sister’s wedding two years ago. I’ll be the maid of honor for a friend this summer in Puerto Rico. I am slightly irate about this wedding since it’s very short notice and it’s [...]
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