June Food Stamp Challenge: The Hair Of The Dog That Bit Me
For the second day straight I woke up with a hangover. A junk food hangover. I’ve been eating crap for the last three days. The crap-fest began on Wednesday when I was stupid and didn’t schedule my day at all. I hadn’t eaten anything all morning because of back-to-back work calls, so when I met [...]
DONE!: #96 & #127
We had our third garage sale of the year with netted us a cool $113 which put me that much closer to my goal of earning $1000 (#77 on the Master List) from garage sales. Only $602 more to go…I can also scratch two more items off the my master To Do list as I [...]
Food Stamps: Eating Well On $202 In June
Last week my friend Katy, who writes the excellent blog The Non-Consumer Advocate, challenged her family and a group of bloggers, including me, to feed themselves on the average food stamp allotment for the month of June as a fundraiser for food banks. Currently one in five Californians are receiving some sort of food assistance, [...]
First Master List FAILURE!
Wow, this sucks. This morning my application to refinance my mortgage was denied due to my last year’s income of $18,000, which I was completely up front about at the beginning of the process. The fact that I can live on $18,000 in Los Angeles and maintain a high credit score and pay all my [...]
It’s Like Hello Kitty For Men
As an early Christmas present, I gave Mr. Foxypants a penguin shaped seltzer machine to replace his two bottle a day Pellegrino habit. Although I absolutely prefer the taste of Pellegrino over filtered Los Angeles tap water, environmentally, bottled water is a terrible waste of resources. Financially, bottle water sucks too, as Pellegrino is more [...]
Wise Bread Post #3 Is Published!
I was so excited when another $10 credit showed up in my Amazon Account last night. I thought it was Wise Bread giving me an extra treat because my last guest post ended up getting republished on a couple other financial blogs including MSN Money. This morning, my 3rd guest post was actually published. So, [...]
Mail Order Catalogs=The Devil
Okay. This is sad. I bought a lightly used black and white striped sweater on ebay last week by J. Crew. ($52). Since I haven’t bought anything from J. Crew in such a long time and I couldn’t try on the ebay sweater for obvious reasons, I went by my local store while running errands [...]
