Thursday: Most and Least is on hiatus again this week. I've had an emotionally exhausting couple of days and just didn't have the energy to put it together. But! I wrote a guest post for Bridget over at Money After Graduation that I hope you'll have a chance to check out :) ... Read more...
Archives for March 2012
People Do the Darndest Things..With Their Money
Below my apartment building is a little convenience store (which is really convenient, ha!). It sells soda, beer, and a few other basics. It also - shocker - has an ATM machine because they don't accept credit cards for purchases under $10. Last week I was in the world's most ... Read more...
Tough Love
Every once in a while, I have to give one of my students some tough love. What I basically say to them - without actually saying it - is that they're screwing up. Maybe that sounds harsh, but every so often a little dose of honesty does a teenager some good. We live in an almost ... Read more...
Freud on Personal Finance
Sigmund Freud: probably the most famous and influential psychologists of all time.SourceThe founder of psychoanalytic theory, Freud is credited with creating the "talk therapy" approach to solving psychological problems that we take for granted today. In addition, our popular ... Read more...
Other PF Bloggers Have the Best Ideas
A few months ago, Well Heeled from Well Heeled Blog wrote a really interesting piece about "tricks" she uses to save the money she would have otherwise spent. After I read the post I must have put it in my mental filing cabinet because when I was driving home the other day, ... Read more...
Thursday Most and Least
I missed writing my Thursday: Most and Least post last week! I'm having fun with this weekly feature. If you want to try it out on your own blog, do it! Just be a sport and link back to my blog somewhere in the post. Thursday, March 1 - Thursday, March 8: Most Expensive ... Read more...
I’m Broke. But In A Good Way This Time.
I came to the realization yesterday that, monthly cash flow-wise, I'm in pretty much the exact same place that I was when I first started teaching almost five years ago. Thus, I still always feel broke and am sometimes kinda depressed about it. But there is good news: I'm broke ... Read more...
I Have Some Controversial Ideas about Money
Actually, I have some controversial ideas about a lot of things, but since we're talking about money here, that's all I'll share. For today. To be fair, it's possible that the thoughts I'm about to share aren't controversial - they could just be straight-up wrong. And I hope ... Read more...
I Joined the Yakezie Challenge!
Guess what? I joined the Yakezie Challenge! I'm so excited! The challenge is to get my Alexa ranking below 200,00 within six months. I just set up an Alexa toolbar for the first time in order to check out what my Alexa ranking is, and the news wasn't pretty. Right now, my Alexa ... Read more...
Super-Cheap Weekend #1: What I Did
As I mentioned before, I need to have a couple of very low-cost weekends to make up for the serious spending I did at the beginning of my budgeting cycle. This past weekend was Super-Cheap Weekend #1. Here's what I did: - Finished a book - Ran errands, including the vet, the ... Read more...