so i have recently decided to pursue a really, really, really, really, really difficult goal: to pay off my credit card debt by the end of this calendar year. in aid of this, i have been going down my expenses the past four days, and, like Ebenezer Scrooge, slashing through any expense that isn’t strictly […]
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So I did some arithmetic over coffee this morning, before getting ready for work, and it looks like if everything holds steady for the next little while, at worst I will be out of credit-card debt by next march, and with a little more effort, it’s even possible I might actually be totally out of […]
so i have begun making the switch to compact fluorescent lightbulbs instead of standard incandescents. what actually got me started thinking about it was, last time i was in p-town visiting the folks, my grandmother was talking about a proposed city ordinance which would outlaw incandescents on the basis of their inefficiency, and require compact […]
i had a very bad few minutes of shock this morning as, while going down the to-do list and paying various bills (man, i love quicken), i sliced off bits of my available (primary) checking account balance until it was not so very big. and then i thought to myself, “shit! what the hell did […]
i want this t-shirt. and this one. badly. stupid trying to save money. stupid not allowed to buy self nerdy t-shirts. stupid budget!
