July 2010

Carnival of Personal Finance

July 12, 2010

Time for another Carnival of Personal Finance! This one is the 265th edition, and once again many a PF blogger has submitted their best choice of articles for this week. All of these are good reading, but a few jump out at me. I’ve tagged those Editor’s Choices with little red hearts: ♥ Enjoy! ♥♥♥ [...]

Read the full article →

“Managed Recreation Opportunities”: Big Brother’s Slice of the Great Outdoors

July 11, 2010

Years ago I edited a huge report that comes out once every five years for the state Parks and Recreation Department. In it, the bureaucratic authors wrote several times about “managed recreation opportunities,” a term that neatly described their attitudes about you and me and the wilderness. When you go for a hike in the [...]

Read the full article →

w00t!! Funny Breaks into the Top 100

July 10, 2010

OMG! Funny just made it onto the first page of WiseBread’s Top 100+ Personal Finance Blogs! Number 99 out of 100, with an Alexa ranking of 127,986. This, thanks to Financial Samurai‘s Yakezie Challenge to bloggers who wanted to improve their traffic and various measures of popularity. The idea was, by July 4, to move [...]

Read the full article →

Hot and Muggy!

July 10, 2010

Well, the power and water bills showed up at once yesterday. Not too bad: the electric was only $176.63 The water came in a dollar over budget at $126.42, but at least it didn’t out-zing than the power bill, as it did last month. When it gets to be over 100 degrees, you have to [...]

Read the full article →

Safeway’s Got a Meat Sale

July 9, 2010

Just came back from the Safeway. They have incredibly gorgeous 7-bone chuck roasts on sale for $1.57 a pound! Glorioski!! Don’t know if this is nationwide or just local to the Phoenix area. Might be worth checking, though, if there’s a Safeway on your way while you’re out and about today. I had mine ground [...]

Read the full article →

The Burglar Jamboree: Nine Ways to Protect Yourself

July 9, 2010

Yesterday at four o’clock in the morning La Bethulia was awakened by a knock on the front door. A cop was standing out there, inside the courtyard. When she opened the door to him, he said, “I think we have something of yours.” And thereon hangs quite a tale. As it develops, the entire neighborhood [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →