Category: Musings
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Take this job and shove it?
Surely you’ve been hearing quite a bit about Steven Slater this week. He’s the fed-up Jet Blue flight attendant who, in a blaze of dramatic glory, quit his job and jumped down his plane’s emergency chute after a confrontation with a fussy customer. Coincidentally, I received an email this week about this girl, who had…
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Lists You Need
You may not actually need these lists at all. You may not need a Diet Coke to survive every morning. But I do. And you just might find some of them useful.
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What I Wouldn’t Do for Frugality
Our goals define largely how we view every single expense and our frugal mindset should be linked to these goals. It’s very possible to spend hardly any money at all. It’s even easier to spend all of your money at once. Neither would make much sense without considering how you envision your financial future.
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Jump Start Next Week This Weekend
Did you know that 1/3 of diets started on Monday are given up by Tuesday? Weekdays are busy enough without packing your 1,000,000 item to-do list in there. This weekend, try getting ahead by tackling a few items on your scroll (it must be a scroll if there are a million items on it).
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5 Library Perks
Ever since Barnes and Nobel started putting Starbucks in thier stores, there really hasn’t been much of a reason to hit the public library. Well, draw yourself away from their frothy mochachino’s for one moment and let me remind you the upsides of your local book rental facility; you’re already paying for it with your…
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Around the Interwebs – Week of June 21
I spend a lot of time at my computer. I was bound to find some good stuff. Here are my favorites from this week: Save Money on Groceries Without Couopons @ Frugal Village How Not to Buy Too Much @ Wisebread Money 101 @ CNN The Big Choice @ Simple Dollar Top 10 Worst Paying College Degrees @ Free Money…