Articles I liked this week

Hat tip to Madame X. This one is great. Why people leave their jobs.

Boston Gal on Identity Theft. It’s usually done by family members who are privy to your details.

Hat tip to Amanda at Young And Broke for pointing me to this article about a ‘Potemkin life’, and generally regretting overspending and keeping up with the Joneses.

Savvy Saver is traveling on business. Her advice on expensing things is wonderful. I admit, I’ve gone overboard in the past when I had an expense account. I also admit, that I also have saved my company money by staying with friends instead of at hotels, done the Saturday night stay to save on airfare etc. Then I didn’t feel so bad maxing out the per diem and paying the rest out of pocket to take my host out for an excellent meal. Using her criterion, was it a place where I would have spent the money anyway? Yes it was. I wish I could name the place in NOLA I went with a friend. He had a La Crema Chardonnay in hand where we went and dragged me to Pat O’Brien’s for a Hurricane. (He gave me no choice but paper cup or souvenir glass. The restaurant was past Audobon Park and was called something like Nat & Jenny’s.)

Free Money Finance tries his darndest to convince me that moving out of a major city is the prudent financial thing to do. He may be right working the numbers, but I’ll never, ever, forget going to hear Kiri Te Kanawa in recital. She sang a Puccini aria for her encore and I got chills. The ticket cost me about $75, but was worth every thrilling penny to hear her sing. Yes, you can get opera on the cheap. There is Opera in the Park, student recitals at conservatory, etc. But a superstar, well. That was worth the money.

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This entry (permalink) was posted on Friday, November 17th, 2006 at 1:37 PM by mapgirl and categorized in Frugality, Identity Theft, Jobs, Location.

Comments (3) left to “Articles I liked this week”

  1. marie wrote:

    Mapgirl, you probably went to Dick & Jenny’s, which is on Tchoupitoulas.

    Posted on 18-Nov-06 at 12:57 pm | Permalink

  2. mapgirl wrote:

    Thanks Marie! That is exactly the place. I found a picture of it on the internet, but I remember sitting in the picture window there for dinner.

    Posted on 18-Nov-06 at 3:11 pm | Permalink

  3. alex wrote:

    hi nice site.

    Posted on 13-Apr-07 at 3:51 pm | Permalink

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