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Posted in Budgeting on Jul 14th, 2008
I love gadgets, so I’ve been keeping a close eye on the new iPhone that Apple finally released last week. When the first one came out, I thought it was pretty cool, but not that many people bought it right away and it took some time until I started seeing them “in the wild.” Which [...]
I like playing sports video games. It used to be baseball and football mostly, but soccer is also a sport a grew up playing so that’s always fun to play. Now that I have a Wii, I’m looking at which games I would want to own. I already bought Madden 08 but still haven’t gotten [...]
Every frugal person I know has a certain pride about it: you don’t need to spend money the way other people do. For whatever reason, it’s something to feel proud of—like we’ve managed to sidestep some of the financial pitfalls that are out there. We’re better than that.
But a few things have happened recently that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 26th, 2007
I’m kind of embarrassed to admit it, but I finally got one.
I had debated the impulse to follow through and try to get one, since they are impossible to find, but last Saturday M and I went to see a movie. Afterwards, I casually mentioned that I’d like to go to Gamestop and just ask [...]
Posted in Budgeting, Credit cards, Happiness on Nov 26th, 2007
I was up at 3:30am.
I threw elbows to get through the crowds.
I stood in a line that snaked through an entire Target for 45 minutes to check out.
I saw a woman pay with a credit card that she hadn’t even activated yet and asked the cashier to “put $100 on this one and $100 on [...]
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