Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the category archives:
I’ve been traveling for work the past few weeks and that looks like it will continue for a while yet. To cheer myself up and stop wasting so much money on herbs and produce I don’t eat, I convinced my boyfriend that we should plant a few things on the back deck.
The impetus for gardening [...]
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I found Pantene conditioner on sale this weekend at Safeway in DC. Pantene is rebranding its bottles and the supermarket was getting rid of all the old packaged stuff at a really low price. I love it! I got my favorite brand-name conditioner for about $3 a bottle. I resisted buying a ton of it [...]
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I saw the Starbucks free pastry promotion today, but didn’t click through to print the coupon. I just ran downstairs to get a pastry without reading about it first. (Damn you Twitter! No one tweeted the coupon in 140 characters!) So I got a coffee, but no pastry. It was around 10:45am anyway, which was [...]
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1. I can’t quit my job.
2. I can’t get fired.
3. I can’t go to Europe next year. (got an invite)
4. I can’t go to Beirut next year. (got an invite)
5. I can’t go to California for Christmas. (to *snorgle* my nephews)
6. I can’t go to California for Christmas next year. (to *snorgle* my nephews some [...]
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Because I don’t spend a lot on makeup and cosmetic treatments and yet still have a boyfriend.
From RevancheGS on Twitter, via Ramit: How much women will spend on a lifetime of beauty care
I had a little rant on Twitter about this the other day (most of which I have re-posted under the cut). I lived [...]
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I had an interesting experience at Advanced Auto Parts.
I wanted a new air filter. The one I wanted was a Purolator version for $12. But there was a K&N version for $50. I couldn’t understand why that one was so expensive. It couldn’t possibly be that good, or could it?
The salesman at the store demonstrated [...]
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Perhaps because I majored in something that required me to have more than passing knowledge about Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class
, but I read the NYTimes article on people scaling back and it only makes me angry.
To many, the adjustment feels less like a temporary, emergency response than a permanent recalibration, one [...]
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I have been thinking about this for a while, but I use my phone service with DSL to update my Quicken regularly. And I was mistrustful of 911 services over a cellphone and whether or not it really worked since I have an out of state cellphone number. (There’s this whole thing I learned with [...]
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At work, about once a week, someone brings in breakfast. It’s my turn soon and someone asked, “What do Koreans eat for breakfast?” My reply, “Whatever they eat for dinner, just less of it.”
Read this article by Mark Bittman. It’s great. You don’t have to eat traditional stick to your ribs breakfast, nor do you [...]
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While I was in California over the holidays I was window shopping with an old friend because we met at the local mall for coffee and chit chatted while wandering around.
I saw a salt pig at Williams-Sonoma. The link isn’t the one I actually saw. I saw one that was almost $40 and shaped like [...]
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