Day Amount Place Category Monday $43.44 Gas Car Tuesday $5.00 Fiction in 50 Allowance Wednesday $21.70 Chinese Eating Out Thursday $80.00 Christmas Gifts Allowance Friday $30.00 Thai Eating Out $25.00 Christmas Gifts Allowance Sunday $34.27 Fred Meyer Groceries $15.00 Christmas Gifts Allowance About $255 in spending this week, and that includes $75 in Christmas gifts for my family and $25 in gifts for those who will be at our house on Christmas day. My familyread more…
It’s a Blog Swap! Today, we’re answering the question “What do you spend money on that brings you the most value.” Below is a guest post from Erika at Newlyweds on a Budget. Erika blogs about managing finances in a relationship. Make sure to hop on over to her blog to read how I answered the question. For more fun, go on over to Narrow Bridge Finance for a round up of all the posts in this blog swap. And be sureread more…
This is the second of two posts about donating to charity. To learn how to give money when you don’t have any of your own, click here You may have noticed that on Tuesday when I posted about donating to charity- for free, I didn’t mention the most common way to give without spending any money- volunteering. There’s a reason for that. Volunteering is often a pretty expensive endeavor. Your time is precious, and many, manyread more…
This is the first of two posts about donating to charity. To learn about how to volunteer from the comfort of your computer chair, click here It’s that time of year, when outside your favorite store there stands a person wearing a red apron, ringing a bell, and pointing you to a red pot. In your office or at your school there are angel trees and people coming around to ask you to donate to aread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $10.00 McDonalds Allowance Wednesday $75.00 Flogging Molly Allowance Thursday $26.00 Olive Garden Eating Out Saturday $135.00 CostCo Groceries $28 Pedicure Allowance Sunday $35.50 Gas Car Just over $300 in spending this week. And to make it even better, the Flogging Molly tickets (concert is in March) were actually paid for by the check my grandfather sent for Christmas. C paid for my pedicure out of his allowance. We’ll call itread more…
When my boss, my department’s executive director, told me that he wanted me to take the lead on going through resumes and determining who we would interview for a director position we have open, I wasn’t thrilled. I know nothing about the work the director oversees, I’ve never hired anyone, and this is for a position at a higher level that I am. (I’m a manager.) I didn’t think I was really qualified to do this.read more…
We are currently member of the National Consumer Panel- basically, we are a Neilsen family for what we buy. We’ve been doing this for about a month now, and it’s going alright. It’s a bit more work than I thought it would be. Scanning everything we buy isn’t that big a deal. Scanners are fun, after all. But if I shop somewhere other than a traditional grocery store, I have to enter the price I payread more…
The Week Amount Place Category Monday $125.73 Medical through Allowance Friday Eating Out Groceries Saturday $21.88 Target Allowance $20.00 Cash Allowance $99.44 CostCo Groceries $32.00 Gas Car Sunday $5 Starbucks Allowance Format is a little different this time because I bought C’s Christmas gift this week. Since he sometimes looks at this blog in order to be a supportive husband, I’d rather not publish how much and where he gift came from. But sinceread more…
Reading Money for College Project’s post about his Carnival Cruise: A Lesson in Wealth Distribution reminded me of the first time I noticed a homeless person. (I know, my mind works in odd ways. You just have to go with the flow.) I can’t say for certain it was the first time I saw a homeless person. Growing up in a small town, we had the well known strange folks- the green & purple ladyread more…
Every year I rant about this. (See the evidence from last year here and here.) And I will probably keep ranting about it. I HATE the car commercials that indicate you should buy a car as a gift. HATE THEM. Now, these commercials are almost always Lexus (this year’s biggest offender so far), Acura, Mercedes commercials- you know, luxury cars, though last year there was the Buick commercial. But still, even if you’re “rich” why doesread more…
