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…
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…
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…
One of the problems with having a relative who has a birthday very near Christmas is having to give good gifts for both birthday and Christmas with no time in between. When someone’s birthday is 4 months before or after Christmas, there’s time for people to want new things, or there are seasonal issues, but with a birthday and Christmas right next to each other, you have to give enough gifts for each from the sameread more…
For those of you who may (or may not) have been jonesing for an update on the adoption process, this post is kind of for you. For quite some time, we were waiting on an additional background check from the state of Nevada, because the roommate had an arrest record there. (We knew about this- J and C were friends at the time it happened.) It turns out one of the reasons we were waiting soread more…
Have you ever been driving down the road and seen something marked “FREE”? In the previous places I lived, I don’t ever remember that happening, not even in the neighborhoods around my college campus. But in the Seattle area, it happens all the time (at least during the spring/summer months when it’s not pouring down rain). We had a “dog couch” in the garage at our first house that had come from the roadside. It wasread more…
Remember that last year we bought the oil-less turkey fryer? We used it again for Thanksgiving this year. It really is wonderful- doesn’t take up the oven and makes the best baked turkey ever, with very little work. You can see pictures of last year’s turkey here, and pictures of this years turkey below. And that’s all you get. From the Dog Ate My Wallet family to yours: I hope you had a great Thanksgiving,read 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…
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…
