Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the monthly archives:
I was denied claim because I have too many receipts to track and fax in. Sheer laziness and confusion on my part. I had quite a lot to send in all at once. I thought they would still approve the claim because I was still receiving messages to send my paperwork in. Well, they didn’t. [...]
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I’m not kidding. Everyone who is tracking their money ought to have a software program to look at their accounts. Unless you are an anal retentive accountant who keeps old school ledgers, I doubt you balance your accounts by hand and keep it up to date all the time.
I have got a serious cautionary tale [...]
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Nina has a thought-provoking post at Queercents about the Big Money Fight.
Many years ago when I was in college, I was dating my cousin’s best friend. He was Korean-American too and the second son of his family. He was double majoring in Finance and Electrical Engineering. ‘Round about graduation time, we had the talk about [...]
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1) I found the missing iPod Nano. It was in a purse I use only during the summer. I wanted to take that a barbecue yesterday and found the Nano in it. Dead battery though. I won’t sell it since I think I might be riding the bus more frequently now that I know a [...]
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Money for the rest of us has Festival of Frugality #80 available now.
Yours truly is featured in the second section, Food Posts, with the Happy Cake post.
Other posts that caught my eye:
Nina via Queercents on Generation Plastic and using cash over cards.
Steve Faber on buying home insurance. Great advice.
Free Geekery on 22 Things you can [...]
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In fairness, I give you this article on where to find the cleanest water at North Bend Middle School in Oregon. (Which is near Mt. Bachelor, a brutal place to ski in deep powder if you are a novice like me. I wrenched my knee there many years ago.)
Heh heh… Makes me laugh, but this [...]
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*sigh* Jericho Hill, one of the list mods at Get Rich Slowly forums went to the happy hour we had last night. I extended an invitation when I saw he was from DC. My bad.
He is a prime Casey Serin Hater, so he brought me up to date on Mr. Serin’s sad travails.
And all I [...]
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Big Hunt was pretty good and very uncrowded, which is unusual for them on a summer Thursday night, but I misread their website. Wings are Tuesday nights, and beers are a dollar off on Thursdays. I think that last fact is why our check was pretty decent. My contribution was $18.00 for 2 beers and [...]
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A new exhibit of his papers in Jerusalem.
More prosaic documents on display show Newton keeping track of his income and expenses while a scholar at Cambridge.
Fancy that. A student mindful of his money.
If you didn’t know. He was also Warden of The Mint and engaged with finding counterfeiters, often wearing disguises to gather evidence.
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Sometimes I don’t know why The Consumerist doesn’t tell their readers to STFU. There is a story about a poorly made birthday cake for a three-year old.
Ok. Take a step back. Remember the post a few days ago about children’s birthday parties? Well, I do. KIDS ARE JUST HAPPY YOU ARE LETTING THEM EAT SUGAR.
There [...]
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