Second installment in the “Advertising: Rabbit in the Hat” series Did you watch the Youtube video yet? Go ahead, I’ll wait. For me, the commercial felt like an emotional cannon aimed at a mouse – and I’m the mouse. I know it took me through a tour de force of anger, fear, sadness, and guilt in under 90 seconds. I was left with an almost
Spending Update: Need Improvements Here is my spending update for last week, unfortunately it wasn’t a great week for spending. I went $30 over budget in my entertainment category ($128.31) largely due to being too busy and too frenetic – I wrote a post about it, read more here for “a day in the life of Lindsey”. In personal care, I spent $65.00 for a physical
Do you ever have one of those days when you know this is exactly why you started a personal finance blog? If you’re not a blogger, maybe its when you realize it’s time to buy a time management book. You look at your day and you realize that you’ve made every possible “most expensive ever” choice that you could make? Today was one of those
Weekly Spending Money Update: Auto and transport was expensive because I have a biweekly car payment of $121.00 and then $70.00 in gas. A lot of the gas I used this week was due to a lot of driving for work – I’ll be able to get most back through my mileage expenses. I spent about $110.00 on food and dining, shopping (books), and $10
Hi Cents’ers! I wanted to let you everyone know that I have a guest post taking about money as a couple hosted over at Making Sense of Cents. In the article, I talk a little bit about my previous attempts at managing my finances in a previous relationship and how that turned out to be an epic fail. I am trying to do things differently
Spending Money Update: Debt Progress Happy Sunday Cent’sers! I am happy to give my spending money update this week because we were able to pay off one of our expensive debts this week with our last payment of $2700.00! This is a great weight off my shoulders and I am now able to focus my energies towards some of my other debts. I also paid
Wouldn’t it be interesting to know what we’re up against as consumers when we’re trying to save money? Advertising is everywhere and corporations use it to reach us in ways we couldn’t even begin to guess at: they scan our brains, they research our cognitive processes, and they gather our opinions in focus groups. Corporations spare no expense to understand what makes us tick and what moves
