On September 11, 2001, I had 2 job interviews scheduled. C and I had just moved to Seattle over Labor Day weekend and were actively job hunting. I had to get up early that morning and drive through a strange city to get to the interview. It didn’t help that I had just gotten my drivers’ license in August. So I wasn’t paying that much attention to the morning show DJs who were babbling about somethingread more…
Monday $236 Outlet Mall (Clothes) Allowance Monday $ 26 Red Robin Eating Out Tuesday $ 9 Safeway Groceries Wednesday $ 4.50 Tail light Car Wednesday $ 16.50 Best Buy Allowance Thursday $ 54.75 Best Buy read more…
This post is part of a blog swap. It is written by Rich over at Money Wise Pastor. You should head over there and read the post I wrote on this topic and then stick around to check out the rest of his site. How do you save money without giving up your social life? That’s the topic of a blog swap I’m participating in today with other bloggers in the Yakezie.com challenge. I’m glad forread more…
By the time this posts, I will hopefully be enjoying myself at the Yakezie meetup at FinCon. I do NOT have a smart phone. (I might get one in a couple of weeks, but that doesn’t help for this weekend.) That means I will not be posting live updates to the blog or to twitter. I’ll try to check in on twitter in the evening, but I might just be having too much fun. To keepread more…
I am a flaming feminist. That will come out clearly in this post. If that bothers you, you should probably stop reading now. Thing 1 This weekend, we babysat 3.5 year old P for about 25 hours. We had a great time with her, but something happened that bothered me a little bit. I had just put her in her car seat to take her to the park. It was just she and I, butread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $38.00 FinCon Allowance $2,233.00 Car Service Car $45.50 CostCo Groceries $4.75 Safeway Groceries Tuesday $100.00 Charity Misc Wednesday $25.00 FinCon Allowance Thursday $33.45 Outback Eating Out $6.50 Half Price Books Allowance Saturday $71.00 CostCo Groceries Well, if you ignore the ridiculous amount we spent on the 80k miles service on our car, spending this week wasn’t bad at all. And we do plan for the car costs. We knew what thisread more…
Today, we get to babysit a toddler for friends. The little angel demon (I know this child) will arrive around noon and will be at our house until tomorrow morning. C and I are both looking forward to it. When her mom asked if she could stay the night (so that mom and dad could not only have an afternoon, but a whole night to themselves) and I said yes without a second’s hesitation, she askedread more…
Lots of the younger bloggers I read are getting engaged, talking about marriage with their partners, etc. Since today is my 9th wedding anniversary, I want to give them the best marriage advice I know. It’s really the simplest thing in the world. Get married on a holiday weekend. I know this may seem anti-intuitive to many people- who wants to share their big day with something else? But the truth is, your day is alwaysread more…
It’s been a long time since I’ve done a Bloggers Give Back update, so I thought it might be nice to focus an entire post on it. I continue to give to charity- for free. I do this by clicking to give at each of the Greater Good Networks sites. (Click the link, it will take you to the Rainforest site. Click the green button. Then, just to the left of “Rainforest” click “Literacy”. Clickread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $52.00 CostCo Groceries Tuesday $212.50 Vet Pets $30.50 Half Price Books Allowance Wednesday $13.00 Papa Murphys Groceries Saturday $174.75 CostCo Groceries $154.00 Concert Tickets Allowance Sunday $4.00 Starbucks Allowance $34.00 Gas Car With the exception of the concert tickets, spending this week was really reasonable. Next week’s will be out of whack because of getting the car serviced, but for now, things look good. For those of you who like toread more…
