October 2009

Winter garden y-cumin’ in!

October 4, 2009

Daytime temps are still in the nineties and hundreds here in lovely downtown Phoenix, but evenings and mornings are delightfully cool. It’s time to get ready for winter gardening, lhudly sing huzzah! Accordingly, I spent large swaths of Friday and Saturday pulling out dead plants (quite a few fricasseed during this summer’s unrelenting heat) and [...]

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Moments of Fame

October 4, 2009

w00t!!! Funny made the Best of Money Carnival this week at Moolanomy! Awe-inspiring…I’ve been trying to get into that carnival for weeks, nay months, without much success. Not only that, but the post, “Truth, the Highest Thing That Man May Keep,” got all the way up to the number two spot! Man vs. Debt’s excellent [...]

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25 awesome sites for personal finance buffs

October 3, 2009

In a moment of idleness, I decided to Stumble in search of sites that might interest friends of Funny about Money. Below, 25 sites full of information, leads, and tools for personal finance enthusiasts. Prepare to bookmark! Find Help, Get Action: Hard-to-find 800 numbers. Includes Amazon, Google(!!), Dell, Apple. Some entries give a clue to [...]

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Dog Adoption: A near miss

October 2, 2009

So M’hijito and his buddy drove to the wealthy northside suburbs halfway to Alaska, there to view the golden retriever said Buddy had heard about. They were pretty excited about the possibility of M’hijito finding the Dawg of His Dreams. He has wanted a dog for a long time but was waiting until the muddy [...]

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Do you have to be wealthy to be financially independent?

October 1, 2009

I’m such a bag lady. Not literally…but I suffer acutely from Bag Lady Syndrome. You can tell me till you’re blue in the face that I have plenty to get by, but I won’t believe it until the bills are paid and no one has carted me off to the poor farm. Matter of fact, [...]

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