Weekly Review: Labour Day Life Under Construction How was your long weekend? Was it great? Did you go camping or have a barbeque? Did you go see family or friends? Did you have fun of any kind? My weekend was pretty good until that end part. That Labour Day part. It was great and then shit got off the hook stupid. Observe:
Life Under Construction: Happy Friday, fair readers! Do you ever dream of reliving your glory days in college? You know, skipping classes that start before noon; writing papers until 4am the night before they’re due; pretending you’re not completely hung over when you write your finals. Just living the dream. Next week I start school. I’ll have to figure out what being a student is
“The graveyards are full of indispensable men” – Charles De Gaulle My latest, and most important, learning: I am not indispensable. Not to anyone or anything. Does it sound harsh? Well, it is – but it’s the truth. It is both liberating and humbling. My position at work? It can be done quite well by others if I weren’t there. My blog? See above. My
When you were fantasizing, did you want to get married here? I know I did. In part one, I asked you to dream of your perfect wedding without concern for money or resources. To imagine your ideal day with all the bells, whistles, and designer dresses that you can think up. At this point, you might be pretty bitter with me. You might be asking
Hi readers! This week I’m combining the Weekly Review: July 15 – 21 and Saturday’s Sweet Savage Love #4: July 21st Edition because I took yesterday off from blogging. Enjoy! Weekly Review: Spending Well, this week’s spending was far more conservative than last week’s spendaholic fesitivities! I spent $70 ($67.00) on entertainment – down from my usual $100. Under blog costs, $50.00 went to a winner
Weekly Review: Spending This week’s spending was….not great. The big expense was my husband’s birthday; we went out for dinner and to see a comedian for about $100.00. It was a fun night and a planned expense. However, I got more than carried away with summer fun spending this week. Patio lunches, Stampede celebrations, more patio lunches, and other summer delights. It’s like I discovered
* The gracious host, Ms. Thrifty, of this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance has been kind of nice to feature my article in this edition’s fine selection of PF articles. Please head on over to check it out. Last week, I wrote a post about Visa’s #smallenfreuden campaign and some of the problems I saw with using your credit card for every day purchases. Some
