Tomorrow I’m participating in First Gen American’s Coffee Talk, so I didn’t want to do a big post tonight. Instead, I’m stealing an idea from the brilliant Jana at Daily Money $hot and posting a “money tune”. Not only is this song about money, this is a video done by one my absolute favorite local bands, the BOWI Band. The moral of the story is- don’t believe the coal board (or your bosses) when they sayread more…
Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $46.12 Gas Car Thursday $42.20 Seafood City Groceries $19.38 Dinner Eating Out $5.92 Petsmart Pets Saturday ~$45.00 Safeway Groceries Sunday $19.56 Safeway Groceries $30.61 Mud Bay Pets Finally, down to under $200 spent this week. I’m not certain about how much I spend on Saturday because I seem to have lost the receipt and the debit hasn’t posted online yet, but I’m pretty certain I estimated high. It’s been a nice,read more…
I love the teams over at Yakezie. I am now on my 4th (maybe 5th) team. Each time, I get a whole bunch of great new blogs to read and bloggers to interact with. Special thank you to Suba who sets this up, and who is, for the first time, a member of my team this time round. Yay! In fact, with one exception, every blog on my team this January is new to me. Theread more…
You may think I’m kidding. But I am married to a pack rat, and I hate to clean. While I do fairly well at keeping my closet trimmed down, papers pile up everywhere. When it’s time to clean off our dining room table or living room shelves because people are coming over, I do a quick look through of paperwork to decide what can be recycled right now, but anything I’m iffy on gets put withread more…
This is, in the words of Sam from Financial Samurai, a whale post. I usually try to break essays like this into two posts, but I think this one works best as a single piece. It was, appropriately enough, inspired by Sam’s own whale post- a guest post over at Untemplater called Quit Your Job and Die Alone, which is about looking honestly at revenue vs profits when making the decision to quit your day jobread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $274.85 Plumber House Tuesday $7.69 Lunch Groceries Wednesday $10.98 Lunch Eating Out $14.24 Papa Murphys Eating Out $111.75 FinCon12 Allowance Thursday $21.79 Gas Car $500.00 Ins Deductible Car Friday $29.60 Old Spaghetti Factory Eating Out $7.64 Half Price Books Allowance $30.43 Target School Saturday $28.01 Target Allowance $35.53 Bed Bath & Beyond House Sunday $5.00 Starbucks Allowance $30 Gas Car 77.18 CostCo Groceries $25.00 Gift Allowance Over $1,200 in spending thisread more…
Welcome to the Dollars & Pets Carnival. Today we’re featuring a number of blog posts from both personal finance bloggers and pet bloggers. But what they all have in common is that while they love their pets, pets cost money. (Don’t we know it.) Sometimes those expenses are planned, and sometimes… well, not so much. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in the blog posts do not necessarily reflect our opinions here at The Dog Ate Myread more…
I’ve written in the past about why it matters to have health insurance. But health insurance is not mandated by law. Car insurance is. And here’s why. A little over two weeks ago, C was in a very low speed car accident. No one was injured, and it was the other driver’s fault. (That was not disputed.) The accident happened only a block for so from C’s campus. He got to school, emailed me the importantread more…
My brother is starting a new business venture. If it pays off, he’ll be set with a decent passive income while he has time to work on the things he loves, like photography. I do my best to be supportive of my brother- he’s an amazing photographer. Don’t believe me, check out his site. At the same time, I think I am more nervous about the risks he’s taking than he is. But he’s going aboutread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $52.00 Pedicures Allowance $32.52 Lunch Allowance $118.95 Shoes Allowance Friday $151.71 CostCo House Saturday $27.02 Safeway Groceries $131.40 Shoes Allowance We only spent money three days this last week, and yet, we spent over $500. *sigh* I knew Monday was going to be a spend day for me. Every MLK day, I take one of my oldest friends out for her birthday- pedicures and lunch is our tradition. Back inread more…
