Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Budgeting on May 9th, 2008
I’m pretty good at staying under budget and under control. It’s actually kind of fun to see how much lower than my budget I can come in at when the month is over. But lately I’ve been really bad. It’s not because I’ve lost my frugality or because I’ve gone on a spending binge—it’s because [...]
Posted in Budgeting, Money and Relationships on May 8th, 2008
I’ve mentioned before that M and I are getting married pretty soon (two and a half weeks!) and one of the things that we’ll be doing that is relevant to this site and to personal finance is joining our bank accounts. We’ve already created a joint ING account that simply shows up via both of [...]
Check out some great posts over at the Money Hacks Carnival, hosted by Save and Conquer. My post, Going to the Game is Expensive, was chosen for the Economy section of the carnival.
I’m also over at the Carnival of Twenty Something Finances hosted by The Locomono Website. My story for that one is about getting [...]
Posted in Creativity, Writing on May 7th, 2008
Earlier this week I wrote about a writing formula I discovered that works for me and I think can help other writers, as well as any creative types. Well, today I went out for a run and had an epiphany: there was more to say about the formula.
Reading + “Quiet Time” = Creative Writing Ideas
Today [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2008
I was tagged by GradGirl for this and so I’ll dutifully pass it along.
What was I doing 5 years ago?
In May of 2003 I’m pretty sure I was in Paris, having one of the greatest times in my life. I had French class every day from 9–1, and then I’d just walk around different parts [...]
I just read this piece on ESPN and I couldn’t believe it. Here was a couple that didn’t know how they would pay for their next mortgage payment and still they would not sell their season tickets to the Dodger games.
Huh?
I was shocked when I got to the end of it because it felt like [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2008
I got locked out of my apartment on Thursday night and it cost me $25 to get them to open up my apartment. I felt like such an idiot. You scrimp and hustle and save and everything you can, you take lunch to work every day and don’t buy unnecessary stuff and then this stuff [...]
Posted in Best Of on May 3rd, 2008
I haven’t done this before, but I think it’s a cool way to recap some of the stories I’ve written over the past month. Usually after I publish a story I just put it in the back of my mind and stop thinking about it. But going back and looking at some of my favorite [...]
Posted in Creativity, Writing on May 2nd, 2008
Writing that title made me feel like I was penning the sequel to The Secret or something. Like I was going to write something akin to “Just follow this simple formula and all your writing block problems will be forever solved!”
Which isn’t what I’m saying but I am saying that it’ll definitely help you the [...]
Posted in Investing on May 1st, 2008
Here’s a neat little article on something I had never heard of until yesterday. Apparently, the SEC is going to announce (on May 14) how companies will have to report their financials in XBRL language. That means that all the data will be organized and labeled so that investors (or anyone, really) can organize, play [...]
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