Just tidbits about money and finance.
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For those of you not following my Twitter feed, I should have left DC this morning for sunny Silicon Valley, but my flight was canceled due to the SNOWPOCALYPSE. (Now with Thundersnow!)
Facts:
I bought the ticket via Orbitz.
It is a codeshare flight on USAirways operated by United Airlines.
There is 8″ of snow on my back deck [...]
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How much are the holidays costing me so far?
$1560 – for three plane tickets to CA from DC and Philly
$162 – for my cabin rental on my camping trip with friends
This does not include the $100 for Christmas presents for the nephews and ~$100-200 for my boyfriend’s present. I’m upping the ante this year because [...]
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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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$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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I’m very excited to go to New York City this weekend. The ostensible reason is for the NYC PF Blogger meet up that Flexo is coordinating at Mercer Kitchen on Saturday. But that was only the reason that drove me to finally book a visit upon two couples with new babies and another friend who [...]
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Normally I do not bring up politics on this blog. I save my rants for other places. But Stephonee from Poorer Than You pointed this out on Twitter and it’s making me grind down my dental crowns in anger. This is an economic problem he has personally compounded by not voting for more transportation funding [...]
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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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This is a special guest post from a long time commenter, T’pol. I asked T’pol to write a guest post for me after she remarked that my dental work in the US was really expensive. I wanted to know more about the cost of living in Turkey versus the US.
Hi, my blog name is T’Pol. [...]
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I found the best article this week on preparing your house before you go away on vacation.
Apartment Therapy is great reading and I love their Kitchn food blog.
Read the comments for extra tips. I think the two comment tips I liked most were emptying your coffee filter and unplug all the appliances to save energy.
Do [...]
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I’ve been meaning to rave about Heidi’s Pies for a while. Boyfriend and I ate there for brunch and picked up some pies for dinner, boysenberry, chocolate cream and apple. All of them were amazing. Freshly baked with interesting specials like strawberry and German chocolate.
It’s on El Camino Real north of the Hillsdale Caltrain station. [...]
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