The Dog Ate My Wallet

The Dog Ate My Wallet

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Author Archive: Erin Shanendoah

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What I’m Reading: Happy the Week is Over

It has been a busy Saturday morning. We’ve picked up poop, done some major shopping, started a large cooking project, and I’ve started a load of laundry and mowed the back half of the lawn. I’m ready for a nap, but instead, I’m getting this edition of “What I’m Reading” put together. On one level, it is rather nice to be this busy, as this week is one of “sucky” anniversaries. We lost Smokey 2 yearsread more…

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Women’s Money Week: Prepare for the Future by Owning Your Past

Today is both International Women’s Day and the last day of Women’s Money Week. Thanks so much to Jackie and Elizabeth for hosting once again. It’s been an honor to participate. Look for my favorite post from each day in tomorrow’s round up. The theme for Friday is Future Planning and Financial Planning   “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana As an undergrad, I majored in History, so itread more…

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Women’s Money Week: Attend a Geek Convention for Less

Has it really been a year? It is time, once again, for Women’s Money Week. Let me be honest, everything I say in any of these posts applies to men as well as women, but I do think it is important to have events that focus on women and their relationships with money. Why? Because in a lot of ways, men are still seen as the bread winners and financial decision makers. It is less trueread more…

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Women’s Money Week: A Family and Money Update

Has it really been a year? It is time, once again, for Women’s Money Week. Let me be honest, everything I say in any of these posts applies to men as well as women, but I do think it is important to have events that focus on women and their relationships with money. Why? Because in a lot of ways, men are still seen as the bread winners and financial decision makers. It is less trueread more…

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Women’s Money Week: Find Time by Letting Go of Perfection

Has it really been a year? It is time, once again, for Women’s Money Week. Let me be honest, everything I say in any of these posts applies to men as well as women, but I do think it is important to have events that focus on women and their relationships with money. Why? Because in a lot of ways, men are still seen as the bread winners and financial decision makers. It is less trueread more…

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Women’s Money Week: Increase Income by Investing in Yourself

Has it really been a year? It is time, once again, for Women’s Money Week. Let me be honest, everything I say in any of these posts applies to men as well as women, but I do think it is important to have events that focus on women and their relationships with money. Why? Because in a lot of ways, men are still seen as the bread winners and financial decision makers. It is less trueread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #85

I’ve spent all of today in bed playing on my lap top and watching bad movies On Demand. (Fast Five for the win.) But I did manage to get myself on my desktop in order to put together this Sunday Evening Post for you.   Blogging The purpose of these two goals is, yes, to grow my blogs, but also to support and highlight blogs and bloggers I enjoy. Just like I will be posting 2read more…

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Walking in the Rain

I try to take two walks every work day, one in the morning, one in the afternoon. This afternoon, as I was taking my walk, I was also thinking about what I would write about today. There were a few possibilities about work, a conversation C and I had last night, maybe the second post in the “jobs high schoolers have never heard of” category, but in the end, I was feeling more philosophical than concreteread more…

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Money Mistakes We’re Still Making (and Not Regretting)

We are bad at saying “No” to good sales pitches. We just are. I know this. It is the reason we have a timeshare (and I still don’t regret it). Maybe that lack of regret played into my decision that we should attend a Direct Buy presentation when the offer was made. I know it had something to do with the $200 worth of restaurant.com gift cards they offered, as well as the two round tripread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #84

It’s Sunday, time for my weekly Sunday evening post! I know you wait all week for this update on how I’m doing on my goals.   Blogging The purpose of these two goals is, yes, to grow my blogs, but also to support and highlight blogs and bloggers I enjoy. Just like I will be posting 2 new to me blogs every week in my round ups, the point here is to draw attention to blogsread more…