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April 2008

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• 04.16.08
  Hump Day Humor: Cheap Admission Frugality | (1)

  Having money is great. Saving money to have more when you need it is always a good idea and it always pays off. But there is a conspiracy out there to separate me from my money. Whenever I want to use some service or to obtain some type of good, may it be in the form of some type of edible treat or skin warming fabric, people want to charge me money for it. I can't stand being charged for things that I need to survive, so when I stumbled upon a nice little scheme to ...

  Tagged: Free Stuff, San Diego
  
• 04.15.08
  Random Website Metrics and the Carnivals Blog | (0)

  The CarnivalsBoth the Carnival of Personal Finance and the Festival of Frugality are up and running. The Carnival of Personal Finance #148 is up at Gather Little by Little. My post on outsourcing to your kids was included as an editors pick. In Glblguy's comments on my article he made a good point that when we outsource tasks to our children it is important that they have a voice in the proceedings. Otherwise it turns into a masked form of slavery, and nobody wants that!Kyle from Rather be Shopping was also kind enough to include my ...
• 04.15.08
  Credit Card Woes and Weird Banks & Credit Cards | (1)

  First the woes - I got hit with a $39 late fee yesterday because my due date was on a Sunday (why?) and when I made the payment on its due date it wouldn't except it until Monday, a day late. Talk about a bummer. I will try and call my credit card company and see if all the advice I've read about calling and asking them to waive a late fee for a loyal payer will work. Time will only tell. What makes it even a bigger bummer is that on Friday I knew that ...

  Tagged: credit, lessons learned
  
• 04.11.08
  Money Poetry – How I Lost Hundreds By Being a Scaredy Cat Money Management | (0)

  I like poetry. It's fun to read and even more fun to write. I enjoy the rhythm that well crafted words can have as they sit on a page - their hidden accents crying out to be given voice. Most of the poetry I have read in my life has not had much to do with money. It's mostly about love, or beauty, or love, or the violence inherent in the system, or love. Mostly it is just about love. My favorite poet is probably William Blake - he has this craziness about him that I find appealing and interesting. ...

  Tagged: about me, lessons learned, poetry
  

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