Just tidbits about money and finance.
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I blame J. Savings. He’s just mad that I spend less on clothing each year than he does.
I just won a $25 Threadless gift card in a contest giveaway he was running. Yippee!
I used it to buy two t-shirts for me ($9 & $5) and order a cute t-shirt for one of my nephews for [...]
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Me Without Debt asks in regards to my NYC Trip:
“Do you believe $64.90 Clothes and $250.36 Boots are trip expense or clothing expense?”
Both. It’s clearly a line item in Quicken as a Clothing expense. But I wouldn’t have spent the money on boots if I wasn’t in NYC. It’s actually somewhat irrational to [...]
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I don’t normally get a lot of questions. But I try to answer them when I do.
Kelly from The Centsible Life asks, “Did I see shopping bags on Saturday night?”
Why yes you did. They had the boots, my clothes, mooncakes (2 boxes), a wool shawl, knitting, and my purse in that ginormous Steve Madden reusable [...]
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$43.50 Bus ticket
$10.00 Metro card fill
$8.00 cab ride
$1.25 bus ride in DC
$6.64 snacks on trip
$64.90 Clothes – new dress, cami
$250.36 Boots @ Steve Madden
$20 – Moon cakes for Harvest Moon Festival
Total $404.65
Only $89.39 was spent if you subtract out the clothes.
I ate most of my meals with friends so I didn’t spend any money on [...]
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My new winter coat was an utter disappointment. The camel colored I selected was just a shade too yellow. The wool was sort of thin and didn’t actually feel like it was going to keep me warm. Nor was it lined with Thinsulate as an extra layer, so I returned it. (Thank god Sears takes [...]
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I picked out a new dress coat for ~$150 and a new no-iron dress shirt in a dark blue pattern for ~$50. I had a coupon for $25 so I saved myself the cost of shipping and tax. The balance was just a hair under $199.
Only one item left to buy, dark dress shoes. I [...]
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So far, I’ve spent $373.98 for the year. That includes a haircut for $22. Not too bad, but I need a few more things as I mentioned before.
Things I hope to buy soon:
Dress winter coat ($150-200)
Dark formal shoes ($80-100)
No-iron shirts (2 @~$50 each)
That’s about it. I am so picky about shoes that it may take [...]
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I bought two pairs of summer sandals and a skirt that’s dressy enough for work, including shipping, about $55. The skirt is a dark chocolate brown and will go with some of my suit jackets and carry me into the fall with the right shoes and sweaters. I rarely wear skirts to work, but it’s [...]
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No big surprises here. Just a depressing decline through the market’s losses. While my retirement accounts took a precipitous fall, my credit card debts have risen as well. I have temporarily charged them up for my Christmas vacation plane tickets. Due to the vagaries of the credit card billing cycle, at the end of the [...]
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It’s $180.71.
That’s the tally for 2 Maidenform bras and two pairs of jeans (Buffalo by David Bitton and Lucky). (Who the heck is David Bitton?) And that was on SALE. EEK. Macy’s was having a fall sale on clothes and so the bras were a good deal. I got them for 40% off their original [...]
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