if it comes to pass that the fed drops interest rates again, causing real savings to back away even further from keeping up with inflation rates (currently 5+%, whereas my savings is like 2% apr), ergo causing one’s saved money to in fact lose rather a lot of (potential and real) value while waiting for […]
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i am a good girl. i have a clothing budget and i try to stick to it. sometimes i fail but this month i have not yet failed. and i wanted SHOES. pretty, pretty shoeses. so i went shoe shopping on zappos.com (who have never let me down in the arena of online shoe shopping). […]
so, over the past several years i’ve been gradually getting better and better at managing my finances, and consciously working towards becoming more and more mindful of my money. mostly that was because of the credit-card debt i was working to eliminate, and finally did at the end of last year, but i found, freakishly, […]
so, the other day, i was running in to osco to pick up tiger’s syringes, and on my way to the door, i spotted someone’s credit card on the sidewalk. by the time i realized what it had been, i was already halfway past it to the door, and i thought it would look weird […]
you have to love the odd shopping trip every here and there where the stars align — the in-store sale, the coupon you got in your email, the frequent shopper’s card discount, the just-earned bonus for shopping frequently with your frequent shopper’s card… — and you walk out of there with a whole massive pile […]
