5 Easy-to-Make Deluxe Gifts for Under $15 article on Wise Bread
My article about my super awesome ninja homemade gifts was published today on Wise Bread. Go here to read the entire article and/or leave a comment: 5 Easy-to-Make Deluxe Gifts for Under $15 (Wise Bread) I wonder if I can write and sell five more articles to Wise Bread in the next twelve days…
Decluttering: How To Get Rid Of Magazines Without Feeling Deprived
Because of my tweaker OCD brain, I have a tremendous problem managing paper clutter. Which is exacerbated by my love of magazines. My love affair with magazines started in high school. I lived in a boring, backwards Arizona town without a bookstore. My favorite day every month was the day that my VOGUE subscription would [...]
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 [...]
