Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the monthly archives:
I got another bill from the oral surgeon’s office. My insurance company did pay out a little bit for the surgery in March. They paid a whopping $259.00 of a $3032.50 bill. CRAP. I am so out of FSA money to cover that, it’s not even funny. It’s sad and makes me want to cry.
However, [...]
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I was really worried that my ad revenue and getting a bonus from work would bump me up a bracket this year and put me out of the program for real estate tax relief. However, I just ran some figures and it looks like I will actually end up safely under the wire for the [...]
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I know these posts seem kind of mundane. But this is the reality of my finances on a very micro level.
Finishing up the rotisserie chicken, I ate all the meat I picked off the carcass. I ended up having a dinner of three eggs, meat from two drumsticks, and some leftover focaccia from the fancy [...]
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This weekend was full of a lot of poor decisions. This is a really long blow-by-blow so skip it if quotidian stuff is boring to you. I wrote to remind myself that one bad decision often leads to another in an effort to try to recoup the loss from the first mistake. And then sometimes [...]
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As I reflect more and more on what happened to the guy in Maryland who can barely afford his housing costs as taxes and insurance costs rise, I am wondering how he got into this mess.
I’m a big proponent of radical personal responsibility. As much as I whine on this blog, I know that my [...]
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Hat tip to Boston Gal for pointing out an article in USA Today about homeowners who can barely afford their homes.
The person in question is Sydney Lasry of Severn, MD. After doing a public records search and checking Google Maps, I know where this guy lives and I can guess who his employer is. It’s [...]
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Hat tip to Rob for pointing this article out. It’s been a work-focused week for me and I’m not generating enough story ideas on my own.
The Wall Street Journal Online has a short story about American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. and Freddie Mac.
In documents filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., Freddie Mac [...]
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Apologies to my readers and blogpals. I just haven’t been able to focus lately on blogging and reading. I feel as though I am pulled in many directions at the moment, both with my time and my money. I promise to do better on both, because that is why I blog, for some accountability. If [...]
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Well, I bought that lovely chicken on Sunday. I have proceeded to eat one meal of it and the rest will go to waste if I don’t eat it for dinner tonight and figure out what to do with it ASAP. (This was drafted for posting on Wednesday day, but never got around to posting. [...]
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I got invited to go to the movies with this new group of people I met last week. I had a great time with them that I definitely wanted to hang out. To do it cheaply, I wanted to eat at home first and then meet them at the theater.
Well, I never got to go. [...]
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