February 2009

Moments of Fame

February 23, 2009

OMG! If you think PF bloggers have no fun, you have got to see Broke Grad Student’s Carnival of Personal Finance, which just went live. There’ll be no topping this one! Absolutely positively do not miss the “Guitar: Impossible” video. Well…no: don’t miss any of them. Amazingly, Funny’s rumination on job happiness hit the top [...]

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Food Futures! Three-month stash grubstaked

February 22, 2009

The plan to store and keep on hand three months’ worth of foodgot fully under way with a day-long voyage to every food and junk emporium within driving distance. A week ago, M’hijito and I picked up the freezer at Costco, and he helped get it out of the vehicle and into its place of [...]

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“Job Happiness”: The oxymoron of the century

February 21, 2009

Recently a PF blogger held forth on a perennially popular topic, how to achieve happiness on the job. Sorry—I failed to bookmark the post and so can’t offer a link, but I’m sure some of you will recall reading it. Coincidentally, shortly after that post went up, a friend whose research interest is the Latina [...]

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Money, dollars, numbers, stress

February 19, 2009

Math is just not my thing. No: correct that. Arithmetic is not my thing. I can hold my own with algebra, geometry, and even trig. But adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing? The stuff drives me to despair. Under the best of conditions, reconciling my bank accounts makes my gut tighten up. The tiniest stupid mistake [...]

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“Shared Work”: It has some advantages

February 18, 2009

So this morning I made it to a ninety-minute presentation on Shared Work, the Unemployment Service’s plan to provide a modicum of compensation for people who are being furloughed instead of flat laid off. In a nutshell, if your employer cooperates you can get unemployment compensation for those days that you’re not paid on your [...]

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Moments of Fame

February 18, 2009

Good Financial Cents has posted this week’s Festival of Frugality with a photo-enhanced “broken hearts” theme. He says he compiled the entire HUGE thing in one evening: quite an accomplishment! Many, many interesting posts here. Check out Frugal Babe’s well written and thoughtful reflection on building financial goals so as to make it possible to [...]

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