Category: Musings

  • Who’s Keeping Track?

    In school your teachers assigned you grades. At work the boss man monitors your output. Tell me, who’s tracking your financial performance?

  • Spending Under Pressure

    Pressure will make you do funny things with your money. It’ll make you give $20 to a fanny-pack-wearing-man in the park who only asked for $15 and who deserved about $0.

  • Judge Not, Lest Nobody Like Ye

    Everyone judges other people’s spending habits at one time or another, but eventually the shoe will be on the other foot. Today the shoe was on my foot; my newly pedicured foot. And it was smelly.

  • College Degrees and Varying Degrees of Worthlessness

    Yup, college is expensive. Yup, expensive endeavors are not to be taken lightly, especially by the non-loaded. There are many college degrees that some people would consider worthless. I submit that a great deal of the value derived from a college degree has nothing to do with the concentration/focus/major.

  • What I Like About You

    Tired of hearing about what you’re doing wrong with your finances? You need to focus on what your doing right; that’s what I like about you.

  • The Emotional Purchase

    Emotionality is frequently the driving force behind an impulse purchase. Will the purchase of a single hat ensure that all a woman’s dreams will come true? Likely not, it was an ugly hat; not to mention, IT WAS A HAT not a magic lantern.