July 2009

Too much debt? Sell your house and rent it back!

July 31, 2009

Ever doubt whether your elected representatives should be your role models? Well, here’s a new twist on finance guaranteed to convince you, one way or another: the Arizona state legislature proposes to sell state capitol buildings, presently owned free and clear by the taxpayers and including the state House and Senate buildings, and them rent [...]

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Best of July 2009

July 31, 2009

Recently I decided to follow other PF bloggers’ example and post a brief round-up of the best articles that have appeared on Funny about Money each month. So, for the inaugural edition, here are my choices: Number 6: Update: How Deferred Compensation Works with Social Security Number 5: Other People’s Pets Number 4: If You’re [...]

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Choir!

July 30, 2009

Hey! The director of the choir where I used to sing (or, more accurately, pretended to sing) said I could come back. Even though I was with the choir for about three years, last weekend I revisited his summer workshop for newbies. Since I’m very naive about music—never learned an instrument and can’t read music—every [...]

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Stress Control: Second insight

July 29, 2009

Yesterday I described a small epiphany that freed up as much as two hours a day of precious morning time. It helped to relieve the stress and frustration aggravating the bruxism, the insomnia, and the general irritability that help to make my life miserable. Surprisingly, a day later another, equally significant revelation dawned. Second moment [...]

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When real estate is funnier than real life…

July 28, 2009

Here’s a fine, recently built little palace, billed as 1,400 to 1,600 square feet, for sale in the far-flung Phoenix suburb of Anthem, an instant “community” that contributed richly to the destruction of, at the height of the real estate boom, an acre an hour of irreplaceable Sonoran desert habitat. This great lake of lookalike [...]

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Stress Control: First insight

July 28, 2009

In two small moments of Insight, I recently figured out how to cut down the Himalayan Range of chores that face me every morning and thereby relieve a great deal of daily stress. My days start with more work than I can easily handle, most of it ditzy stuff that frustrates because it’s never done. [...]

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