Today is Election Day in the United States, where I, and most of my readers, live. Because this will post around the time that most East Coast polls are closing, I have to imagine that if you are actually reading this today, you are looking for a break from election coverage, and that if you are reading this on Wednesday, you are happy to be done with election coverage. With that in mind, I thought itread more…
I had a hard time deciding whether or not to write this, let alone whether or not to post it. This is a POLITICAL post, and so if that will bother you, please feel free to not read it. But I don’t think anyone can argue that politics are outside of the realm of the personal or the financial, so in that sense, this belongs here. What I say here shouldn’t come as a surprise toread more…
Today, I am participating in Bloggers Unite for Animal Rescue on all three of my blogs. I know a number of my personal finance blogging friends are animal lovers, and I just want to make sure you all know, you don’t have to be a pet blog in order to participate in this event. You’re in the pet store, grabbing a new toy for your dog, and it turns out there’s an adoption event going onread more…
For those of you who are not already mired in the world of personal finance blogs (ie my friends and family who read this), you may have noticed a new badge over on my sidebar this week. (Okay, so you all would have noticed, but you PF people already know what it’s about.) The badge is the Bloggers Give Back badge, and it is a movement started by my dear friend Jana over at Daily Moneyread more…
It is 5pm on Thursday night. This blog is scheduled to be updated at 5:30pm. One slight problem- I have no idea what I want to write about. There are lots of little thoughts going around my head, but nothing fully formed in to a post. I read all the blogs I read today, commented on a number of them, and yet still, nothing really inspired me. I blame the post-birthday, pre-Christmas doldrums. So, since Iread more…
I am starting with this bit from the pet blogging world. If you are one of those (few) people who reads both my pet blog and this one, I’m sorry for the repeat, but this is too important for me not to post on multiple times., and I know the personal finance blog world is full of generous people who love animals. So… The wonderful family at Kissa-Bull lost their home and almost everything they own,read 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…
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…
I belong to a writing critique group because without them, my fiction writing would be nearly non-existent. I love to write. I love to tell stories, and yet, without the external motivation provided by this (amazing) group of people, I wouldn’t write. I wouldn’t commit those stories to paper. You may wonder what this has to do with personal finances. Well, the same thing Weight Watchers has to do with losing weight. Sometimes personal motivation isread more…
