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09.10.08

My Additional Income Progress: 3 Month Update Blog | (2)
I have been criminally negligent in keeping this blog up to date. I haven't been keeping up with changes in my net worth ((Net worth is so last century. I think that the current ratio might be a much better number for determining ones financial position.)) and I haven't even been keeping tabs on my expense tracking. All my regular financial activities have slowly gone the way of the humble buffalo. The good thing is I haven't been wasting away my days playing Team Fortress 2 or the incredibly addicting Company of Heroes. ((The only two video games I own outright.)) ...

Tagged: ad, additional income, budgeting, cost of living, income, life-style choices
08.13.08

Bike Commuting Is Tough on the Tush Frugality | (6)
Last week I inaugurated a season of bike commuting and in the subtitle of my Bike Commuting Begins post I jokingly proclaimed it the "dawn of the sore bottom." I was expecting a little soreness, maybe a little tenderness to the touch - but nothing like what I am experiencing. My quest for frugal transportation is making my sit bones feel like they've been hammered by Thor himself. Now I have narrowed down the culprit to one (or all) of three things: (1) My biking shorts. That's right, my biking shorts are none other than the highly sought after ...

Tagged: bike commuting, life-style choices, transportation
08.11.08

Poverty and Relocating Poverty | (1)
Have you ever considered moving because you can live somewhere else for cheaper? I know that my wife and I have. I've mentioned before the outrageous prices that currently exist in the housing market in San Diego - and that is despite the precipitous fall in prices in recent months. While in South Carolina, home to my wife's family, we could buy a pretty spacious fixer-upper with plenty of land about 45 minutes from Charlotte, NC for around $50,000 (plus $40,000 renovation costs over a few years after purchase). We could probably ride that mortgage. But that ...

Tagged: fight poverty, homelessness, immigration issues, life-style choices, San Diego, world poverty
08.04.08

Bike Commuting Begins Frugality | (1)
Today I began the bike commuting era, and it has been a long time coming. I have been thinking about it for months now - 5 months ago today, to be exact (Bike Commuting: Is it for me?) - and today I have finally taken the first pedals on my journey to cycling ~24 miles a day, 120 miles a week. I am a little sweaty, but no worse for the wear. My first ride consisted of a 1.7 mile joy ride in the cool San Diego morning to the bus stop. Then I hopped aboard my normal ...

Tagged: life-style choices, transportation

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