April 2010

w00t! A win!

April 7, 2010

FMF just e-mailed to say Funny won one of the $100 prizes in Free Money Finance’s March Madness competition. Thanks to everyone who kindly participated by voting for Funny in each of the contest’s many rounds! Far as I can tell, he hasn’t posted the grand prize winner’s name yet. But the final round is [...]

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Spring in Arizona

April 7, 2010

The winter-long El Niño rains have brought a bumper crop of spectacular flowers. The rain’s about over now, and now we have the stiff winds that, each spring, blow in the summer’s 110-degree heat and blow out the blooms. But for a few days yet, we can enjoy air perfumed with orange blossoms and spectacular [...]

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Moments of fame

April 7, 2010

Funny appeared in the following carnivals this week: The Carnival of Personal Finance, at Mighty Bargain Hunter, with Queen Is in Her Counting House Carnival of Money Stories, at Bucksome Boomer, with “Check’s in the Mail”: The checks that never return The Festival of Frugality, at Frugal Upstate, with Money Happens: Planning ahead through 2011

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Five frugal ways to entertain the kids

April 6, 2010

Guest post by Tina Minchella I was going to title this post “why it’s never a good time to have a kid.” Many friends and family members as well as the occasional professional acquaintance discuss family planning with me. With the economic situation the way that it is, I hear over and over, “It’s not [...]

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Anybody wanna write a guest post?

April 5, 2010

Are you interested in submitting a guest post to funny about money? I broke & dislocated my shoulder this evening & so won’t be up for typing, possibly not for several weeks. Would welcome any guest posts that might keep funny going for the duration.

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The Queen Is in Her Counting House…

April 3, 2010

So now that the Dow is closing on 11,000 again, I spent part of yesterday evening counting up my shekels. Some time back, I figured the crash of the Bush economy (oh, how i luv bugging my rightie friends with that one! ) had drained my retirement savings of about $180,000. Things are looking somewhat [...]

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