July 2008

Goals start to gather . . .

July 31, 2008

Hot diggety! Be This Way has responded to the Five Midsummer Goals Challenge with five great money-saving and wealth-building ideas. She also tagged five more bloggers: Remodeling This Life, This Wasn’t in the Plan, I’ve Paid for This Twice, Moolanomy, and Frugal Babe. BTW, Paid Twice has thrown down the gauntlet with a Shopping Bag [...]

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Insurance: Never a dull moment

July 31, 2008

Just got a notice from the Great Desert University that my health insurance plan–the only one that covers my doctor–will be dropped this August. Thank you so much, beloved employer. Well, I knew it was too good to last. After a long series of health insurance fiascos (including one year when the only provider they [...]

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Moments of Fame

July 28, 2008

Jesse at You Need a Budget is hosting the 163rd Carnival of Personal finance. It’s vast! And it’s filled with interesting posts. That’s why I was especially flattered to see Funny’s rant on usury, the credit card industry, and the need for some sensible regulation (with teeth!) selected as an editor’s pick. If I didn’t [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions: Where are those goals now?

July 28, 2008

Converting iWeb posts into WordPress occupied a fair amount of this weekend. In the course of opening old entries, I came across a New Year’s list of goals, which I’d promised to revisit off and on during the year. Well, of course the instant I posted that I promptly forgot the follow-up part. Better late [...]

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Shopping: Saved from myself

July 27, 2008

A friend and I shopped the sales at an upscale Scottsdale mall last week. I was saved from spending much by the fact that in all those acres and acres and acres of women’s clothes, there wasn’t a darn thing worth buying. I’ve never loved shopping. But now that I’m a grown woman and, as [...]

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