June 2010

Moments of Fame

June 23, 2010

Funny made third place in this week’s Best of Money! w00t!! Host Free Money Finance kindly included the rumination on the value (or not) of elite liberal arts schools. In that department, Frugal Scholar has published a really excellent discussion of whether it’s worth taking on debt to pursue an Ivy League degree, replete with [...]

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How Do You Organize Your Budgeting?

June 22, 2010

Here’s the question: Is it better to mound up your spending money in one big pile, or does it make more sense to divide it into “piggybanks” dedicated to one purpose or another? Is it an overcomplication to dedicate x or y amount to, say, groceries or eating out? Wouldn’t it be simpler to give [...]

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Just can’t believe it…

June 21, 2010

So up at the Mayo they told me it looks like I may have to have surgery for a torn rotator cuff, in the shoulder that got dislocated when I fell on Easter. It takes six months to recover from this. At least. One site says it takes up to a year to recover. My [...]

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Found Hound

June 20, 2010

This morning in the park, Cassie and I picked up a hanger-on: Very thirsty and very hungry, she followed us home. She has no collar and no tags, but she’s been spayed quite recently. This leads me to suspect she was just sprung from the Sunnyslope Humane Society, which microchips adopted dogs unless you tell [...]

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Funny on the Radio!

June 19, 2010

Cary Lockwood, proprietor of Your Auto Network and host of his own radio show on Phoenix’s KXXT, kindly invited Funny to do a segment on his program, Calling All Cars. It aired yesterday, June 19. You can listen to it by clicking here… Or check out Cary’s podcasts over here. Cary, as you’ll recall, was [...]

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Welcome to Calling All Cars Listeners

June 19, 2010

Hello! If you came here from Cary Lockwood‘s Your Auto Network Calling All Cars, welcome to Funny about Money. Funny is about Life, the Universe, and All That Money. We talk about subjects having to do with frugality, personal money management, and the real values that matter in life. You might enjoy these posts: Entrepreneurs: [...]

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