Just tidbits about money and finance.
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I swear, the reporters who say that camping vacations are people who have never been camping. It’s cheaper than going to Europe, but it’s not really that cheap. Boyfriend and I own a lot of camping gear. We acquired all of it separately before knowing one another. In the course of dating, we’ve started consolidating [...]
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I had a successful No Spend Day on Saturday. I had spent the morning at home cooking and doing some light cleaning. I spent the late afternoon at a Pampered Chef presentation at a friend’s place. It was nice to catch up with some friends there, but I didn’t buy anything. Nor was there anything [...]
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My motorcycle isn’t running. The carburetor is clogged and so I had to trailer it to my boyfriend’s house and I’ll probably trailer it to our new rental because we’re under severe time constraints. My boyfriend did not have time to fix the engine before we had to move. I’m only trying to get it [...]
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Life has been crazy in 2009. But in mostly good ways.
1. My boyfriend asked me to move in.
2. My car was telling me how old she is and I started to consider my options.
3. I got two performance bonuses and a raise on the way.
4. I fixed up and rented out my condo.
5. My pop [...]
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I love this article. Onto my snarky two cents.
Steam Shower – Someone at work wants one. Back in the 1980’s all the rage amongst my parents’ Korean friends were sauna cabinets at home. Everyone got one but us, and my parents are happy they kept their powder room. You just won’t use it like you [...]
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That’s $360 for movers for 3 hours and a tip. $450 for a new dishwasher at Sears. That includes a 5% discount for using boyfriend’s Sears card. And another $70 for paint and some more supplies at Home Depot.
We also ate dinner out twice over the holiday weekend. The first check was for Chevy’s about [...]
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Friday night I have no idea what I ate for dinner. I think I ate a slice of pizza that my boyfriend ordered from the new pizza place near his house. We relaxed at home because I was kind of wound up.
Saturday, my boyfriend took me to a car show so we could source some [...]
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I tried the Alton Brown Pizza Dough recipe this weekend. I did my usual 1/2 and 1/2 with whole wheat flour. (FWIW, I use King Arthur White Whole Wheat flour so my brain doesn’t think I’m eating ‘whole wheat’.)
Before buying the mixer, I would spend 30 minutes hand-kneading the dough and wearing myself out. Now [...]
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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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Friday night was a quiet evening at home. I hadn’t been feeling well that morning so I worked from home. As soon as it was quitting time I started two loaves of bread for a dinner party Saturday night. I also ran an errand mid-day with boyfriend to pick up a magnum of my super [...]
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