Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the category archives:
You can go ahead and buy all the Girl Scout cookies you want.
Or coffee mugs branded with your favorite NPR station. (Let’s face it, you are shopping for pledge gift items. Don’t lie to yourself.)
Or used home appliances from a Habitat for Humanity Re-Store.
But I like finding a good deal on clothes. Very pretty clothes.
While [...]
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Two years ago I started a consulting job with 6 suits. That was sufficient since I spent most of my time there in a warehouse facility and I wore khakis and a dress shirt on most days and though I could get away with jeans and t-shirt, I rarely wore that unless it was Friday [...]
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I haven’t been collecting up things I’ve been reading due to work commitments, so a sampling for you this week:
The Supreme Court on Mutual Fund fees for 401k participants
The Black Suit
Boston Gal has the Depreciating American Dream series from WBUR in Boston. (Where else?)
Revanche remembers her grandmother. I think this is an amazing woman.
Krystal’s boyfriend [...]
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I have a couple of wants. I would like to buy 2 or 3 new suits for work, a raincoat, 2 new pairs of dress shoes for work, a manicure and a facial.
I could put forth a lot of justifications for wanting these things because they’re ‘for work’. But I’ve been enough of a smart [...]
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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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Already another question!
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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