May 2009

Sumer is y-cumin’ in

May 17, 2009

Spring has done all the sproinging it’s going to do around here, and now temperatures are in the low 100s every day. The pool is decidedly warm enough to swim in, though most of the yard’s flowers are fried. I need to pull out the remains of the winter garden, which has gone to seed, [...]

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Your megacorporation “values” your business

May 16, 2009

Why do faceless corporations work so hard at being faceless? And why do they veil their facelessness behind messages that claim to “value” their customers’ business? The fact is, if they valued your business they wouldn’t treat you the way they do. For the second time in three months, Cox has failed to send a [...]

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Incorporating for fun and profit

May 15, 2009

Finally finished with all the paperwork (I hope!) needed to establish The Copyeditor’s Desk as an S-corporation. Incorporating my multifarious freelance enterprises as a single entity will make it possible for me to earn enough to live on despite the government’s strictures on earned income for those who take so-called “early” Social Security—a limit guaranteed to [...]

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Reno loan GONE!

May 14, 2009

Well, after two days, almost two hours of dorking around at the credit union, and a quiet stress attack, finally I managed to get someone to take my $21,000.  At one point I thought maybe I should take it all out of the bank in dollar bills and sprinkle it around the floor of the [...]

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Moments of Fame

May 13, 2009

This morning the Money Hacks Carnival went up at My Life ROI, with a scrumptious theme that is guaranteed to make you hungry. Funny’s piece on budgeting in strategies for saving made Editor’s Pick here—thanks, ROI! ♥ At this round-up, you’ll no doubt enjoy MoneyEnergy’s slightly contrarian essay, “Don’t Wait Until You’re Fifty to Start Preserving Your Wealth.” I also enjoyed [...]

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Optional frugality

May 13, 2009

The other day, a woman wrote a letter to the New York Times‘s editor in which she recalled her younger years of drudgery, before everyone in the country owned a dishwasher, a washer, and a dryer—or at least had access to a laundromat. She reflected on the fatuousness of us new-age frugalists who imagine we’re [...]

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