February 2010

w00t! March Madness win!

February 25, 2010

Hey! Funny about Money won in its first round at Free Money Finance‘s March Madness Competition! Thanks so much to all of you who voted for Truth, the Highest Thing. This is a great first step toward winning the $500 donation (I hope!) for All Saints. FMF’s second round is now under way. I’m sure [...]

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Big-picture thinking and the penny-pincher

February 25, 2010

This morning a fresh experience led me to realize that I spend way too much time on penny-pinching and way too little on focusing on the big picture that is my life—or more to the point, that is my earning potential. Yesterday one of my former students sent me a LinkedIn invite. This caused me [...]

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The great mineral make-up experiment

February 25, 2010

Okay, so after we decided I needed a retread and then we went out and bought a kit of mineral make-up from Costco (nearly removing my fingers in the process of opening the thing), I broke out the camera and conducted a few quasi-scientific experiments. The research questions: Does make-up do a woman any good [...]

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Sartorial Elegance: Thrift store edition

February 24, 2010

Check out SDXB’s new threads, acquired earlier this week at a thrift store in Sun City: Whether New Girlfriend’s costume came from the same source, I have no idea. But (LOL!) doubt it. Says he: Bought the tux for $15 at the Lutheran Thrift Store in Sun City. Bow tie, $23. Tux shirt [at the [...]

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VOTE for Funny at March Madness!

February 23, 2010

Hey! Funny’s post at Free Money Finance’s March Madness is up for a vote. I submitted Truth, the Highest Thing that Man May Keep. As you may know, many of the entries are top choices in the Best of Money Stories Carnival, and so the competition is august, indeed. Would you please go to the [...]

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Moments of Fame

February 23, 2010

Think Your Way to Wealth hosts this week’s Festival of Frugality, where Funny’s rant about consumer-proof packaging appears. This carnival is full of really good posts. I especially enjoyed these: Financial Samurai’s Let “Freement” Reign: Spending Paralysis, Material Lust, and Obsession Paul of Fiscal Geek‘s post at Jeff Rose’s site, Good Financial Cents, How to [...]

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