Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the category archives:
Ben at Money Smart Life doesn’t like me. I can tell. He tagged me to make a New Year’s Action Plan. Crud. I’ve been avoiding this. I have a 2009 goals post drafted, but meh, I don’t feel like posting it yet. It seems bland and dull. Nothing really exciting around here at MFC. 3 [...]
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After reading that miserable article, I was IM’ing with a friend of mine at Complex Diagrams. (He’s a UI designer I know.) It struck me that what I really wanted to write was an article about the skills that have served me most in life, not just school, but the actual office.
1. Being able to [...]
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The addendum to the treadmill post is that I am too cheap to buy new clothes. I kind of resent letting myself get fat so I will remind myself with tight fitting clothes that I need to hit the treadmill.
I don’t plan on boring anyone to death with how much I’ve run, etc. I plan [...]
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Time to try something different with spending. Now that I’ve moved to mostly debit and cash for my daily spending on lunch, gas and whatnots, I’m having a hard time tracking spending again. I am going to have to write stuff down once more.
I can tell that most of what I’m buying is lunches out. [...]
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No, not talking about politics here. I get enough of that in DC just be living here.
I’m talking about my credit cards and this year’s goals. The bathroom renovation was a major setback for me. But I ran some numbers and I’m *slightly* better off than I initially reported on my Net Worth IQ graph [...]
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FMF serves up the chuckles. His advice is spot on, “Come on, people, control your spending!” Just the reminder I needed before splurging on a trip to London for NYE with friends. I have to remember to keep my pennies tightly clenched in my fists. What is it he says in Croupier? “Hold on tightly. [...]
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As we head into the holiday season and enjoy today’s holiday of gluttony, I just wanted to take a moment and reflect on the abundance in my life.
During my regular knitting gathering this week, we were talking about S.A.B.L.E., Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy. For those of you who don’t knit, ’stash’ is your yarn [...]
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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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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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