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June 2026 (8)
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May 2026 (53)
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31: Testing (0)
31: Back in the Hubs… (0)
30: Hotter’n the Hubs! (0)
30: Good Morning, Dogmerica! (0)
29: GORGEOUS Evening! (0)
28: “SIZZLE!” (0)
28: Survived to See Another Day (0)
28: Another Gorgeous Day in Central Arizona… (0)
27: Arrrgh!!!! I hate computers!!!!! (0)
27: The Gentrification of the ‘Hood (0)
26: Another Day, Another Nightmare y-Cumin’ In (0)
25: Let Us Try Again… (0)
25: Movin’ On… (0)
25: Another new test post (0)
25: Another test post (0)
25: Trying again…. (0)
25: Testing (0)
25: Hotter Than the Hubs… (0)
25: TIRED of Stupid! (0)
24: Fire Central! (0)
24: Goin’ All Mormon! (0)
23: Another Fine Day in Southern California (0)
22: How Could She Do That? (0)
21: Eeeek-a-Dawg!!! (0)
21: Pool Dude In! Pool Dude Out! (0)
21: A Little Escape…Of Sorts (0)
21: Around the Swamp…uhm, Park (0)
20: Hot Day in the ‘Hood (0)
19: ARF! Not to say OUCH! (0)
18: Hubs of Hades Central! (0)
17: Hotter than the Hubs… (0)
16: Weather: Best Described as Awful (0)
15: STUNG! (0)
15: Passworded Out! (0)
14: Hotter Than a Two-Dollar Cookstove… (0)
13: Jobs We’re Glad We Don’t Have! (0)
12: Eeeek! (0)
11: Surprise! {Sorta…} (0)
11: The Music of the Morning (0)
10: BELAY that Last Post!!!! (0)
10: Woo-HOO!! Car-Free in Phoenix!!! (0)
09: Pant! Gasp! (0)
09: Another Gray Day in Arizona… (0)
08: Sole & Separate: Keep It That Way (0)
08: Parboiled in Phoenix… (0)
07: Report from the Hubs of Hades… (0)
06: Good Dog(gy-less) Walk (0)
06: The Morning of the Morons! (0)
05: The Family Lore: What a Show! (0)
04: Weird, gray day (0)
03: Fuzzy Gray Day… (0)
01: Whew! Hotter than the Hubs! (0)
01: Circumnavigating… (0)

April 2026 (31)
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30: Robin Hood’s Barn: Round & Round! (0)
29: Summertime in Arizona (0)
27: GET’em!!! (0)
25: Strange Arizona Afternoon (0)
23: Reminiscing… (0)
23: A Minor Miracle(???) (0)
22: April 22, Continued! (0)
22: April 22 (0)
20: LOL! Why do people do this??? (4)
19: Hubs of Hades Central…. (0)
18: Whew!!!! (0)
17: Hotter than the Hubs… (0)
15: In-fukkin’-furiating!!!! (0)
14: Another Day, Another…???? (0)
13: Cox Gouge (0)
13: Lazy, Hazy, Gauzy Day of Summer (0)
10: Why Didn’t I….? (0)
10: Ohhh yeah: AGAIN! (0)
10: Idle Essay of the Day (0)
08: AUGH!!! (0)
08: G*d-D***ed PHONE (0)
07: UNBELIEVABLE Evil! (0)
06: LOL! and MORE Skeetifying! (0)
06: Skeert, Version 2 (0)
06: Skeeert!! (0)
06: Jobs We’re Glad We Don’t Have… (0)
05: Fried and Fricaseed! (0)
04: Time to Move Along? (0)
03: Seven Kinds o’ Hell (0)
03: Get the F*** Off My Phone and…. (0)
02: Bing Bong!!$$! (0)

March 2026 (32)
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31: PC conversation: Outta Here! (0)
27: Wow! What Luck…. (1)
26: Yipe$ My mother would faint! (0)
26: Hotter Than the Hubs. Again. (0)
25: Where Are Ya Gonna Go? (0)
24: Sprinkler-Mania!!! (0)
24: The Siege of the Front Yard (0)
24: Morning Gad-About (0)
23: Huff-ata-puffa… (0)
23: Go-o-o-d Morning, America! (0)
21: Jayzuz! STOP THE WORLD!!! (0)
20: Hotter Than the Hubs…Again… (0)
20: Old Age Creepin’ Up… (0)
19: Hotter than the Hubs (0)
18: ARF! we say….and GLUB! (0)
17: UN-Be-LIEV-able! (0)
17: Hummer Vandals (0)
17: Turned Upside-Down in Space? (0)
16: And I stay here…WHY? (0)
16: Morning Has Broken… (0)
11: Nothin’ Better to Do…. (0)
11: CAN you believe it? (0)
10: Time to Move to the Old Folks’ Home? (0)
10: We’re IN! Not to say FED UP…. (0)
09: Yow! TAKE COVER! (0)
09: Never a Dull Moment (0)
08: Check Your Homeowner’s Coverage! (0)
05: Home, (Not So…) Sweet Home (0)
05: Hair! (0)
03: Coyotes (0)
02: Dim Light on the Horizon? (0)
02: 41898 (0)

February 2026 (33)
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27: Riding the Wagon (0)
27: The House on the Park (0)
26: Eeeeek! What NEXT, Lord? (5)
25: Life in the Desert: Hazards Thereof (0)
25: Ear Whistle? Or Limp? (0)
25: Hah! I’m IN!!! (0)
23: And I need a $15,000 car…WHY? (0)
21: Another Day, Another Jab in the Hip… (0)
21: B-B-B-R-R-R-R-R-R… (2)
20: Glorioski! (1)
19: Beerless in Gaza… (0)
19: A-r-r-g-h! Not to say OUCH!!! (0)
17: Spavined! (0)
17: Doggie Resistance (0)
15: And the Beat(ing) Goes On… (0)
14: HAH! Next Time…. (0)
13: Scared in Your Living Room… (0)
12: Spavined!! (0)
12: Ruminations on Ruination (0)
12: Back Online! And Chariot-Free (0)
11: The nightmares never stop (0)
11: Hmmm… Maybe I’m in, after all? (0)
11: Hallelujah!!!! We’re IN (0)
11: A-a-n-d…just to make things perfect… (0)
11: NEVER Stops… (0)
10: Securing the Security… (0)
10: Kaput????? (0)
10: Are We Still Online? (0)
09: Egad! Who’d’ve Thunk it? (0)
09: Owwwwww!!!! (1)
08: YOWCH!!!! (0)
07: Ah hah! Back IN! (0)
03: Work Life: Movin’ On (1)

January 2026 (34)
Detailed Monthly Archive

28: Pain, Pain, and More Pain! (0)
27: And When I Said “One of Those Days”… (1)
26: Weirdness!!! (0)
25: The Plague of Passwords (0)
24: Gorgeous Evening! (0)
24: Here We Go Again… (0)
23: Tromping, Endlessly Tromping… (0)
22: Evening in the ‘Hood (0)
21: …And Day Fades into Evening (0)
21: One Ringie-Dingie…Two Ringie… (0)
20: Pool Dude! (0)
19: Memories…of Nightmares (0)
19: Why would she do that? (0)
17: Never a Fukkin’ Dull Moment! (0)
16: Bring Her Back (0)
16: Loverly Loafing… (0)
15: Another Day Later and Deeper in… ??? … (0)
14: Colder Than a By-Gawd! (0)
13: How Do They Know? (0)
12: I’m IN!!! (0)
11: Ever-So-Slightly De-crippled… (0)
09: Hurts Like Hell! Down through the ages… (0)
09: Colder’n a By-Gawd (0)
08: Another Doggy-walk Escape! (0)
07: Rain, Wet Dog, Cranky Human (0)
07: When You Are a Dog… (0)
07: The Boggle Minds! (0)
06: Totally Not in the Mood! (0)
05: How Lucky Can Ya Get? (0)
05: Glorioski! (0)
05: Congregate Living??? (0)
03: Morning in Arizona… (0)
02: Reel Estate… (0)
01: Pain Pain Pain! (2)

December 2025 (56)
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31: BANG! BANG!! BANG-A-DA-BANG!!! (0)
30: Hurt! Hurt! Hurt! Hurt!!!! (0)
30: Pool Dude, Beloved Pool Dude (0)
29: December 29, Part II (1)
29: Wow!! (0)
28: Outta There! (0)
27: Brats and Morons Abroad! (0)
27: Real-Estate Dreamin’ (0)
26: How is it possible to HURT this much???? (1)
25: Batteries Battened Down… (0)
25: Hiking Dogtilda… (0)
25: Merry Xmas!! (0)
24: Our Garden Spot… (0)
24: Unmerry Christmas (3)
24: Holiday Confuse-a-Bat (0)
23: Still Pre-Xmasing (0)
22: Pre-Xmas, Continued… (0)
22: Uh-oh! Xmas-time!! (0)
21: Pillar to Post…and Back Again! (0)
21: One of Those Days: Adumbrated (0)
21: Ugh! (0)
20: The Ole Guy…The Ole Neighborhood (0)
20: Does It EVER stop? Or even slow down? (0)
19: She Would’ve Loved…. (0)
19: Free!! (??) I hope…. (1)
19: Colder than a By-Gawd… (0)
18: And now it’s night-time…. (0)
18: LOL! NOW what new neurosis??? (0)
18: She killed herself. Why, why, WHY the Hell???? (0)
18: Key Hell (0)
17: Understatement of the Century (0)
17: Is there a REASON we never notice…??? (0)
16: My Father’s Little Orphan Annie (0)
16: So…What would you have done if…? (0)
16: Brrrrrrr! …I think…. (0)
15: December in Phoenix…oh my! (0)
15: Too Silly for Words… (0)
14: Five Days Later!!! (0)
14: GORGEOUS Day! (0)
13: Colder Than a By-gawd… (0)
11: Day’s End (0)
11: Dog as Everywhere Everywhen Companion (0)
09: Strangely Healed… (0)
09: And…whaaa? UNdone for???? (0)
09: Done For! (0)
07: So…Where Were We? (0)
07: En Train (0)
07: Good(?) Morning, America… (0)
06: Kickin’ & Screamin’…into the 21st Century (0)
05: And I’m Staying Here…WHY??? (0)
04: A Long Time Till Dawn of a New Day (0)
03: What a Life She Had! (0)
02: Never a Frikkin’ Dull Moment (0)
01: Round and Round We Go…. (0)
01: A-n-d…here we have another December… (0)
01: Surely the End Is in Sight (0)

November 2025 (47)
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30: Hiking to Pretoria… (0)
30: Inna Minnit… (0)
29: Another Night of the Sh!theads… (0)
28: Women and Terror (0)
28: Gosh! (0)
26: Thank You, Good Realtor!!! (1)
25: No, Thank You!!! And it works! (0)
25: Loafing: The Impossible Dream… (0)
24: Now for some serious loafing… (0)
23: Mayo-Trapped! (1)
23: Glub! (0)
22: Today, Continued…. (0)
22: Today… (0)
21: Roaaaarrrrrrr! (0)
21: wooo-OOOO-ooo Argha! (0)
20: Roar…Roar…Roaaaarrrr…. (0)
19: Soggy Doggy Day (0)
18: Yuch! Another Tuesday (0)
18: Summer Storm-time (0)
18: How DO they know???? (0)
17: Roar! Roar! ROOOARRR! (0)
17: Go Ahead: Just TRY to Put Your Feet Up and Relax! (0)
16: Kids!!! (0)
15: Imagine that!! (0)
15: And…So…DO I really wanna stay here? (0)
14: Arf! We say…ARF! (0)
14: GLORIOSKI!!! (0)
12: Gettin’ Old…how is it possible??? (2)
11: Wow! AWESOME! (0)
10: LOL! It Gets Stupider and Stupider!!! (0)
10: Reminiscences (0)
10: GGRRRRRR!!!!! (0)
10: Testing (0)
09: Sunday Evening: November 9 (0)
09: No Longer Even Bother…. (0)
08: Li’l Afternoon from Hell… (0)
07: “The Sound of Freedom”!!! (0)
06: Zowie!!! (0)
05: And we’re b-a-a-c-k! (0)
05: ‘Round & ‘Round They Go…ARF! (0)
04: November 4, continued…. (0)
04: Ahhh! And now to LOAF! (0)
03: Another incredibly gorgeous morning! (0)
02: Too Gorgeous to be Miserable… (0)
02: EEEEK! Senility Attack!!! (0)
01: Turning the House into Profit… (0)
01: You Want Me to Pay WHAAAT????? (0)

October 2025 (46)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: What’s Your Favorite Phone Solicitor Bounce? (2)
30: What COULD she have been thinking? (0)
30: Doggy-Walk from Heaven (0)
29: Bug Bite Bait! (0)
27: Life in Lovely Uptown Phoe…DUCK!!!!! (0)
26: Close One! (0)
25: Pure Nit-Wittitude! (0)
23: The Big Apartment Adventure (0)
22: Love Escapes Blindness at the Garden Gate… (0)
22: Awww, jeez! Guys!!!! (1)
22: Glorioski! Glorious Day, Glorious Future (0)
21: Hup hup hup hup… (0)
21: Hotter’n’The Hubs… (0)
21: What NOT to Do in Old Age… (0)
20: Still a GORGEOUS Monday (0)
20: Never-Ending…scams (0)
20: Late October in the Desert (0)
19: Glorioski Morning (0)
18: Ethnic Hatred (0)
18: Slow Morning in Citrus Central (0)
17: Beautiful Dog-&-Human Night (0)
17: A Day Not QUITE from Hell… (0)
17: Scam-a-Bat (0)
16: Thursday Afternoon in October: Phoenix, AZ (0)
15: Arrghh! Home Sweet Home? (0)
15: Morning Perambulation (0)
13: Traipsing to Pretoria…. (0)
12: How Much Longer, Lord? (0)
11: Ruby-Dooo!!! EEEEEEK! (0)
11: Glub! (0)
10: Gray Day Redux (0)
09: And Another Evening at the Gym (0)
09: Can a day REALLY be this gorgeous??? (0)
09: It’s Taken Me 60 Years to Figure It Out?????? (0)
08: Gronk! Spare Me, Lord!!! (0)
08: Lock It Down!!!!! (0)
07: What happened next… (0)
07: Another Evening from Hell, Comin’ Up! (0)
07: Morning in the ‘Hood (1)
07: Coyote Jamboree (0)
06: Stay Away from My Doorbell…Stay Away from… (0)
05: More October 5 Scribbling (0)
05: Ohhhh, the Terrror!!! (0)
04: Headin’ Toward Hallowe’en! (0)
02: So it goes…and goes… (2)
01: New Post? Nothin’ Much New… (0)

September 2025 (48)
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30: Gorgeous morning (0)
29: Progress Being Made… (0)
28: Awaiting…. (0)
27: A-n-n-d… {rumble rumble} here we go again!! (0)
27: Back at the Ranch…in the nick of time (0)
26: And now…Friday Afternoon (0)
26: Friday Morning… (0)
25: Really: There is no answer, is there? (0)
25: Garden Spot!!! (0)
25: Dawgy Walk…Through the Swamp (2)
24: Movin’ On…if it can be called moving… (0)
24: Haunted! (0)
23: And What to Do Next? (0)
23: YOW!!! Incredible pain! (0)
22: Giddy-up! (0)
22: AAARRRRGHHH! Not to say “goddammit!” (1)
21: Morning Does Not Become Us… (0)
20: Three sheets(????) to the Wind… (2)
19: Beloved Neighborhood, Beloved Neighbors (1)
18: Another Day, Another Thunderstorm… (0)
17: Report from the Hubs. (2)
16: Car? We Don’t Need No Steenking Car! (0)
16: Round and Round They Go… (0)
15: The Phone Is Not Your Friend (0)
14: Trudge Trudge Trudge (0)
14: The Choirless Sunday Proceeds (0)
14: Choirless Sunday (1)
13: Good Morning, Dogmerica! (0)
12: Please, please make it harder to get a covid shot! (0)
11: Why You Have a Kid… (0)
11: Another Beautiful Day in Arizona… /eyeroll/ (0)
10: And I’m still doing this…WHY? (0)
10: Good Morning, America! And… (0)
09: Wow! Not to Say Good Grief!!! (0)
09: Snoop Snoop Human (0)
08: Ripped! (2)
07: A Revelation in Transit (0)
06: Re: Paul the Romanian Lover (0)
05: And moving on… (1)
05: GRONK! Another sylvan day in Arizona (2)
04: Tryin’to F’geddaboudit…. (4)
04: Soggy Doggy Day (0)
03: One of Those Days, Continued… (0)
03: Trying Again… (0)
03: Joys of Olde Age (0)
02: Loaf-ifariousness (0)
02: Cool Dude! (1)
01: Hotter Than the Hubs…Again… (0)

August 2025 (68)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Hotter than the Hubs (1)
29: Heeee! It keeps getting better… (0)
29: Grrr! Makes a Landlord Look Good! (0)
29: STILL hotter than the hubs… (0)
28: And now: Eeeeeeps! (0)
28: {Gasp!} {Pant!!} (0)
28: Out the Door (0)
28: Wetter than a By-Gawd! (0)
27: Okay, I give up…. (0)
27: And further(glub!)more…. (0)
27: Glub!!!!! (0)
26: Round and Round She Goes… (1)
25: The Joys of Living in Phoenix (0)
25: Amor de Amazon… (0)
25: Another Soggy Doggy Day (0)
24: Hot enough to fry your brain…if you still have one… (0)
24: Rasty-Nasty Weather! (0)
24: She’s B-a-a-a-c-k! (0)
23: What WAS the matter with us??? (1)
22: Shades of Araby… (1)
22: Hotter Than the Hubs…Crabbier Than a Dungeness Crab (4)
21: F’rgodsake, At Least Get the Story Straight! (3)
20: Another Balmy Day in Arizona… (0)
20: Muse Me No Muzak! (0)
19: Freedom’s Just Another Word… (1)
19: Lovely Morning in Uptown Phoenix…again (0)
19: Daydreaming (0)
18: Staying Home; Getting Safe (0)
18: And now…DIS-dislocated????? (0)
18: Huffa puffa…WOW (0)
17: The Evolution of Car-Freedom (0)
17: Augh! SPARE Me, Lord! (0)
15: Which Way to Jump? If Jump at All… (0)
15: Idle Question of the Day… (0)
14: Still More Existential Agonizing (2)
14: Glub! (0)
14: The Night Comes… (1)
13: Joys (and Amazements!) of Cultural Difference (0)
13: Dog & Human & Heat & Humidity (0)
12: Deliver me the chow! (0)
12: Sauna City! (0)
11: How Did They Live That Long? (0)
11: HOW do dogs know???? (0)
10: Hotter than the Hubs (0)
10: Hot and Hellish (2)
10: And…you thought “hotter than the hubs” was hot? (0)
10: Hotter than the Hubs; Ever Amazing (0)
09: How’m I Gonna Get it??? (2)
09: ohhhh well…. (0)
08: Eeeps! Sell Car? Get Free? Whaaaaa! (0)
08: And Yet ANOTHER Wild-Eyed Radical Idea… (0)
08: Idle Reverie of the Day (0)
08: Time to Exit, Stage Left? (0)
08: Hotter Than the Hubs (0)
07: Outta Here? (2)
07: Weird-weather Day (0)
06: Holee Ess-aitch-ai! Does this stuff NEVER stop? (0)
06: Hee heeee! And I imagined I was drinking…WHAT? (0)
06: Take Me Home, Lord! (0)
05: Hotter than a Two-Dollar Cookstove… (0)
05: August 5 Heat, Continued… (0)
05: Tired of Stupid!!!!!!! (0)
04: Another Beautiful Day in Arizona… (0)
03: In the Land of Looney Toons… (4)
03: Delivery? HOT diggety! (0)
02: Beloved Contract Workers…. (0)
01: Hotter than a three-dollar cookstove… (0)
01: Summertime, And the Livin’ Is… (0)

July 2025 (63)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: And all these years I’ve been paying…for WHAT? (0)
31: “Another Beautiful Day in Arizona… (1)
30: A Hundred WHATS????!!?? (0)
30: BBBRRRRAAAAAAAACCCCKKKKK! (0)
30: Why? (0)
29: Soggy Doggy Day (0)
28: Back at the Hubs… (0)
27: Arf, we say. ARF!! (0)
27: Ninety degrees at seven-forty… (0)
26: What Happened to Her? (0)
26: Hot and Wet! (1)
25: Yuck! …and… WHY am I Here??? (0)
24: Report from the Hubs of Hades (0)
24: Porch Pirate Heaven (1)
23: 40631 (0)
23: Arfa -EEEK!!! (0)
23: Lone Wolf Howls at Moon… (0)
22: Hotter Than a Three-dollar Cookstove! (0)
22: And speakin’ of real estate… (0)
22: Hotter than the Hubs! (0)
22: I’m IN! (0)
21: To Move…or Not to Move (0)
21: Weird Little Experience… (0)
21: G-D Phone Solicitors! (0)
20: Lazy Hazy Crazy Day of Summer… (0)
19: Movin’ Movin’ Movin’…. (1)
18: Ugh! Through the Swamp (0)
17: My poor father! (0)
17: 7:00 a.m.: The Moron Hour (0)
15: BREAK TIME!!!!!!! (2)
14: {chortle!} In the Department of Wacksh!t… (0)
14: Still Kickin’ (5)
14: Reeeel Estate! (0)
14: Morning in Aridzona… (1)
13: Bye, All! (2)
13: San Francisco: Take Me Home (2)
12: Hotter than the Hubs & Crazier than a Loon (1)
12: For the Luvva Gawd (0)
11: And QUADRUPLE-ARRRRRRGHHH! (2)
11: Arrrrghhhh!!!!! (0)
11: 40520 (0)
11: Woof! (0)
10: WHAT IF…you didn’t need a car? (0)
09: Corner of Hell and Hades…. (2)
09: EGAD! (0)
08: WTF????? (2)
08: How DO they compete? (0)
08: Back!!(wards…) (0)
07: Fricasseed! (0)
07: And Speakin’ of ARGHA!… (0)
07: Glub!! (0)
06: Gasp! Huff! Puff!!! (0)
06: EEEEEEK! Be scared! Be VERY scared!! (0)
05: Joys of the Computer Age (4)
05: Why fireworks are illegal… (0)
04: July 4, 2025: 7:30 a.m. (0)
03: Car Hijinks: Is this even possible? (2)
03: Inauspicious Morning (0)
02: A Plan! (0)
02: How DO they know??? (0)
02: Back from the Hubs of Hades… (0)
01: Did She Know? (0)
01: Hotter ‘n the Hubs…again (0)

June 2025 (36)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: HOW many degrees????? (0)
30: Don’t Do This to Yourself… (0)
30: The Evolution of Life in (un)Lovely Arizona… (0)
29: Egad! Watch out for this… (0)
28: “The Sound of Freedom” (0)
28: Who’d’ve Thunk It? (0)
27: Hotter than the Hubs (1)
27: Report from the Department of Weird Experiences (0)
27: Life with…Other Humans (1)
26: Hotter Than a By-God (0)
26: She Knew. Oh, Yes: She Knew. (0)
24: Shocked! Back to Sobriety… (1)
23: And we need this…WHY? (0)
22: Now what? (0)
22: Arf! We say…ARF! (0)
22: Makes the Old Folkerie Look Good… (2)
21: What Next, Then? (0)
20: Another (un)Fine Mayo Day (0)
19: MORE Pool Dude Shenanigans (1)
19: Weird…Yea Verily. The Weirdness That is WordPress (0)
19: Hah! I’m IN! (0)
19: Hou$e-Cleaners! (0)
18: Wednesday Argha-Wargha! (0)
17: Balmy Afternoon… (0)
17: Wow! Let’s Get This Straight! (0)
16: Cleaning Lady Day… (0)
15: Gettin’ Old…and Stayin’ Free! (0)
14: Gettin’ Old (0)
13: Ah hah! First Thing to Go Right This Morning! (2)
11: Roar! Roar!! Roar!!! (0)
11: Dawn of Another Dreadful Day (0)
09: 87 berzilliion things…. (0)
08: Wow! I’m IN! (0)
07: Did She Know? (0)
06: Holy Sh!t….DUCK FOR COVER! (0)
05: BONK! And this didn’t occur to me…WHY? (4)

May 2025 (23)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Eeek! Be Scared! Be Very Scared! (0)
31: What Happens When You Move to Sun City….and when you don’t…. (0)
31: Yahoo! I’m IN! (0)
29: Late Spring in the Low Desert (0)
29: Strange Weather… (0)
27: If only she were still here… (0)
26: EEEEK! Be scared, be very scared (0)
25: Sunday, Bloody (Boring) Sunday (0)
25: She’s b-a-a-c-k again…for the nonce (0)
23: A WTF Week… (0)
22: Now What??? (0)
21: {click!} On Cars: WHY have I never figured this out??? (0)
20: Glorious Morning in the Gorgeous ‘Hood (0)
19: Over the Hills and Through the ‘Hood… (0)
18: Ohhhh Most Brilliant of Web Gurus! (0)
11: Another Junket Through the Hood (0)
11: Afternoon Doggy-Walk…and on… (0)
10: She’s B-a-a-a-a-c-k!!!! (0)
05: …And Stumbling Through Another Day (0)
05: Stumbling toward Eternity (0)
04: GLUB! To say nothing of GRRRUUUUMMMBLLLLE (0)
04: G-a-a-a-h! STOP THE WORLD! (0)
01: She’s B-a-a-a-c-k… (0)

April 2025 (17)
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27: How to End a Love Affair (0)
23: And…A Different Viewpoint (0)
22: Why Did They Hate Him So? (0)
21: Another Day from Hell, y-Cumen In (0)
18: Personicane!!! (0)
18: Chaos in Hevvin… (0)
16: 40170 (0)
12: Life in the 21st Century (0)
12: Loafifariousness… (0)
11: Ohhh How I Wanna Go Home! (0)
10: Day from Hell…on Steroids! (0)
09: Still Kickin’… (0)
08: Moonset (0)
07: Zonked and conked (0)
07: New Day in the ‘Hood (0)
04: “The Sound of Fweedom!” (0)
01: Real Estate…Run Amok! (0)

March 2025 (32)
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31: Cleaning Lady from Heaven! (0)
31: Is There a Place for Me? (0)
31: R-R-R-O-O-O-O-O-O-A-A-A-R-R!!!!! (0)
30: So…??? (0)
30: Now What? (0)
29: So…where wuz i???? (0)
28: r-r-r-r-r-o-o-o-a-r-r-r… (0)
28: Drivin’…Drivin’…Drivin… (0)
27: Mid-century Joy! (0)
26: Arfa Arfa OUCH OUCH! (4)
24: One of THOSE days… (0)
23: Soggy Doggy Day (0)
21: woo-HOOO! Lunchtime!!! (0)
20: Good (not quite) Morning, Arizona! (0)
20: Sooooo…. Where were we? (0)
20: Make. It. Stop, Lord! (0)
19: STOP THE WORLD!! (0)
18: Scare of the Day….FOUND! (0)
18: E-freakin’ NUFF (0)
17: “The Sound of Freedom”… (0)
16: Tryin’ Again… (0)
14: And Speakin’ of Colder Than a By-Gawd… (0)
14: Augh!! (0)
14: Re-Battening Down the Hatches… (0)
11: Doggy-Walk-a-Rama (0)
11: She Knew (0)
08: Soggy Doggy Saturday (0)
07: Weather, cont’d. (0)
06: Foiled! (0)
04: You Know You’re Too Darned Lazy When ….. (0)
04: Grrrrr! Rich People’s Problems…. (0)
01: Renovations (0)

February 2025 (14)
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25: Can’t Go Home Again… (0)
25: Beloved Pool Dude! (0)
24: Real Estate Dreamin’… (0)
23: Murder by Microbe (0)
19: The Joy of Living in the ‘Hood (0)
19: Coyote Morning (0)
19: Arfa Argha Warfa! (0)
17: Good {grump!} Morning, Arizona! (0)
16: She Done Did Herself In (0)
14: Blessed Silence! (After a Fashion…) (0)
12: Wednesday in Hell… (0)
11: Holeee Shee-ut… (0)
08: Another Day, Another Taxpayer-Funded Dollah… (0)
07: World War III…Comin’ Your Way! (0)

January 2025 (18)
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31: Fundamental Questions of Olde Age (0)
30: One Effin’ Nightmare After Another… (0)
26: Argha! (0)
26: Colder ‘n’ a Bigawd (0)
24: Gorgeous Day! (0)
23: Just a LITTLE peace and quiet, puhleeze? (0)
23: Howling Wind. Howling Flames… (0)
14: STOP THE WORLD! (0)
14: Apocalypse! (0)
13: Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda… (0)
12: Argh! When was the last time…. (0)
11: Worser and Worser (0)
09: Been there… Yow! (0)
08: Conflagration! (0)
07: Colder Than a By-Gawd…again! (0)
06: Wow! I’m in!! (0)
05: Wow! Clo$e call… (0)
03: WHY restaurant food??? (0)

December 2024 (22)
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30: Ah, the Good Ole’ Days… (0)
29: The Cracking of the Dawn (0)
27: YDK: Lost and Gone Forever? (1)
20: Grrrrrrr…. (0)
19: Back at the Ranch…. (0)
19: Scared Witless (0)
18: …ROARRRR…. (0)
18: What the Dickens? (0)
17: Puffing Her Way to Hades… (3)
15: Duck for Cover!!!!! (0)
14: My Mother Killed Herself (0)
14: Grrrrrrrrr….. (1)
13: Colder ‘n a Bigawd… (1)
11: The Times (and the Demographics), they are a-changein’ (0)
10: Doggy-Walk-a-Roonies (0)
09: What if…what if…why didn’t I? (0)
08: One Ringy-dingy, Two Ringy-dingies… (0)
04: And Another Lovely Evening… (0)
03: Eeeek! Duck for Cover! (0)
03: Sittin’ on the dock of the…uh…pool… (0)
02: Kissy-Wissy…icky wicky??? (4)
02: AUUUGGH!!! (0)

November 2024 (19)
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27: Wow! Sprouts: OUTTA THERE (0)
26: Gorgeous Morning (0)
25: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a…NUT CASE! (0)
23: Argh! With the Perps on Our Tail (0)
23: What could be better….? (0)
22: Wiley Comes a-Visitin’ (2)
20: A Seller’s Personality (0)
19: All He!! Breakin’ Loose (0)
16: Found! {sort…} (2)
15: A…a…n…d furthermore…. (0)
14: Lovely Uptown Phoenix (0)
14: Holy Junkmail, Batman! (0)
13: Never a Dull Moment in Crime Central… (0)
12: One Good Thing! (2)
09: De-brrrrrr’ed…. (0)
08: Brrrrrrrrrrr!!! (0)
05: Memories (0)
02: Old Age: Live Free or Die??? (0)
01: How Do We Love Hallowe’en? (2)

October 2024 (21)
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29: A Balmy Afternoon in Lovely Phoenix (0)
29: Duck! Cover! Or something…. (0)
28: Adventures in Internet Life (1)
26: SURGE of PANIC (4)
25: HONK!!! (2)
24: Wow! (0)
23: WHY do people do this? (0)
21: Just one minute of peace…puhleeze, police? (0)
21: Clinging to Independence in Old Age (0)
21: Moving: A Bad Idea (0)
19: Another lovely day in Arizona {glub!} (0)
16: Oh…Emmm…Geeee! (0)
14: Lovely REMOTE Uptown Phoenix (0)
13: Lovely Uptown Phoenix… (0)
12: Stop the World… (0)
09: Whatever You Want… (2)
07: So Glad Not to Be There (0)
06: Lost Times, Lost Friends, Lost Family… (0)
05: The Salton Sea Boondoggle (0)
04: The Insane Fidgeting of Tempus… (0)
02: Porch Pirate Repellant…Redux (2)

September 2024 (25)
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29: Soooo glad not to be there… (4)
26: He Gave It a Good Try…. (0)
24: Encanto Dreamin’… (0)
24: High Noon at the Hubs of Hades… (0)
22: Old(!!!) Home Day (0)
22: Aging in Place…by Damn! (3)
21: Uh oh… Not to say GOOD GRIEF! (4)
20: Cutest thing… (0)
18: Someday in My LIfetime…? (0)
17: Hotter than a Swamp in the Hubs of Hades…. (0)
16: Uh huh: “Another Beautiful Day in Arizona…” (0)
15: Swampy Day//Swampy Brain (2)
15: Hotter’n’the Hubs…again… (0)
12: Why Did I Never Think…? (0)
11: Urk! Southern California Redux… (0)
10: Sentimental Journey… (0)
10: Weirder and Weirder… (0)
10: Stop the World… (5)
07: Here Come De Rain! (0)
05: She Shouldn’t Have Died. He Shouldn’t Have Had to Suffer… (0)
04: Things That Shouldn’t Have Happened (0)
04: Home or Old Folkerie? (0)
01: Arizona Magnificence (0)
01: No Title?? How about…”How they came, how they went”… (0)
01: Tales of the Hood… (0)

August 2024 (22)
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31: Soggy Doggy Glorious Day… (0)
30: Heah Come De Rain!! (0)
29: “Another Beautiful Day in Arizona…” (0)
28: Gaaahhhh! (0)
28: Soggy Doggy Day (0)
26: Cruisin’ and Musin’… (0)
22: Retiring to the Life of Riley? (4)
20: Doggy-Walk in the Time of Alzheimer’s… (0)
20: Quack Day (0)
18: Fears (0)
17: Soggy Doggy Day II (0)
16: Morning in Lovely Arizona… (0)
15: SURGE of Panic (0)
14: Outta here (2)
12: NOW it hits me??? (0)
12: Another Balmy Arizona Summer Day… (0)
12: Soggy Doggy Day…and a Sentimental Journey (0)
09: This, That, & the Other (0)
07: Muggy Muggy Day (0)
06: Heah Come de Storm… (0)
06: What Does Inflation Do to Your Savings Goals? (1)
01: Wednesday (0)

July 2024 (15)
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29: Another Morning… (0)
29: Hotter Than the Hubs… (0)
28: Morning on the Desert (0)
27: Marble-Loss Update (0)
27: Incredible!!! And G’bye, Amazon (0)
27: You have to be told this? REALLY????? (0)
24: More Muggletude (3)
20: Crabbiness Update (0)
20: THIS Is Life in the 21st Century? (2)
18: Soggy Doggy Day (0)
12: 112 degrees and…and… (0)
10: Hot Day, Hot Stove, Hot Dog…. (0)
07: Such Good Pay… (0)
07: July 4 Kaput (0)
01: Another Unholy Day in Lovely Arizona (0)

June 2024 (15)
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30: Balmy Summer Day(s) in Arizona (0)
27: Hotter than the Hubs! (0)
22: {sob!) Bye-bye, Amazon! (4)
21: {pant! pant!} Hot…??? (1)
21: Hotter Than the Hubs…. (0)
19: Another Day, Another Little Cri$i$ (1)
16: If you want a job done right… (0)
11: Southern California Dreamin’ (0)
09: Losing What Little Remains of My Mind… (0)
09: Daily Doggy-Walk (0)
08: MAKE IT STOP, LORD! (0)
06: Saved! In one small way… (0)
06: “Good” Morning, America! (0)
03: Sentimental Wanderings….There she goes again! (0)
02: Here We Go Again… (0)

May 2024 (8)
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28: Wow! Close call… (2)
23: Resting in Peace, eh? (4)
21: R.I.P. Charley the Golden Retriever (2)
19: Tough Times… (2)
14: 100 Things about Myself (0)
12: And further ruminating… (0)
12: By Golly! Missed This!! (0)
03: Lawyer, eh? Think again about that… (3)

April 2024 (10)
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29: Almost Time to Go… (0)
28: Gotta Make a Plan…. (0)
22: WTF?????? (4)
17: GRONK!! (0)
13: Ups and Downs…or…Downs and Ups? (4)
11: Whither the Hereafter? (0)
11: Coulda Shoulda Woulda (4)
06: Stuff Happens…and Doesn’t Happen… (0)
04: The Fate of Prognostication…. (2)
03: Plus ça change… (2)

March 2024 (4)
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27: And More Neighborhood-Cruising…. (4)
21: Grrrrrr…Gas! (0)
12: Smoke Alarm Hell (5)
05: Wow! What a ZOO!!!! (0)

February 2024 (4)
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29: So there!!! (0)
21: Struggling Along… (6)
16: The Californication of Urban Arizona (0)
01: A Minor Miracle…and Another Nuisance (2)

January 2024 (7)
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31: Life in the Wild West…as it were… (2)
31: Never an Effing Dull Moment (0)
17: A Whole Wasted Day? (0)
16: Tempus Continues to Fidget (3)
03: Gettin’ Old…or Gettin’ Walloped? (0)
01: We thought it was entertaining at 9 p.m.? (1)
01: Off the Wall Since the Fourth of July (0)

December 2023 (4)
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27: Unholy Christmas…Unholy Scheming (0)
24: Stylishly Stupid (0)
20: Random ruminations… (1)
17: A Miracle!!!! (2)

November 2023 (6)
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28: Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! (6)
28: Busted, Disgusted, and…. (1)
19: …a-a-a-n-d… The lingering aftermath (3)
10: WORSER & WORSER (6)
08: Stop the World! (0)
01: Post-Hallowe’en in Arizona (0)

October 2023 (15)
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27: Ohhh Gawd! It’s too, TOO good… (2)
21: Yow! The Car of My Dreams!! (0)
18: Eeeek! Stop the freakin’ WORLD! (0)
15: Unstuck in Time: No question of it! (0)
14: Good(?) Morning, America! (2)
13: Wow! Another Narrow Escape (0)
13: NOT a nice person… (0)
13: Tracking Down the Ancestral Myths… (0)
13: GAAAAHHHH! STOP THE WORLD!!! (2)
10: One “NOW WHAT” after another… (0)
08: But…I Want It NOW… (6)
07: Stop the World? Yea, verily… (2)
05: Where were we…about stopping the world? (0)
04: Wednesday, October 4, 2023…Stop the fukkin world, already…. (1)
02: Another Fine Day y-Cumin’ In…. (0)

September 2023 (15)
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27: Another NOT a Disaster…waiting to be proven… (1)
24: Surprise!!! NOT a Disaster! (0)
22: Cry, the Beloved Weather… (0)
19: Watching Money Flow Out the Door… (0)
18: Get-Off-Your-Duff Day (0)
13: …WILL go wrong (0)
12: Wow! The Rip-off of the Day (0)
11: Whatever can go wrong… (0)
11: Lordie! Make it stop!!! (0)
10: ohhhhh-kayyyy…. Trying again… (0)
06: Things [Don’t] Work Out (2)
05: Waiting…waiting…waiting…and waiting some more (0)
05: Happy Holiday…Now Stop the Effin’ World! (2)
03: Who Was Joe Kelly? Can memories be inherited? (1)
01: Water! Falling Out of the Sky! (2)

August 2023 (21)
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31: North Central: Neighborhood from Hell (0)
29: Twenty-First Century as Gigantic Rip-off (0)
29: Report from the Hubs of Hades (0)
25: Out and About in Loony-Toonsville (1)
22: Eeeeek! (2)
20: Rain, Rain…Come Again? (0)
19: Brave New Annoyance…. (0)
18: Revisiting the Good Old Days… (0)
16: Speaking of Storms: The Perfect $torm… (0)
15: Heah Come de Storm! (0)
15: Dorkification Day (0)
13: Good Morning, America! (0)
09: Flaming Horror in the Pacific (0)
09: Now What? (0)
09: Report from the Hubs of Hades (2)
07: Pool Dude: MIA (2)
06: Report from the Hubs of Hades (0)
06: Colonel, the Great Dane, and the Little Boy (1)
03: High as a Kite? Or Crazy as a Loon? (0)
03: Long Hot Day…. (0)
01: When the Gods Are On Your Side…. (1)

July 2023 (33)
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31: Report from the Hubs of Hades: Last Day of July (0)
30: An Untitled Blog Post! (0)
29: What. A. Place! (0)
28: EEEK! (0)
27: Yipes! (0)
25: Report from Hades North… (0)
25: Dogs Are…Weird (0)
24: A…n…d… Ninety Degrees and Overcast (0)
24: Summertime, and the Livin’ Is… (0)
23: In-Effing-Credible…. (0)
22: Every Which Way from Sunday… (0)
22: You Thought the Hubs Were Hot? (0)
20: Reporting from the Hubs of Hades… (0)
20: Why I quit shopping at Costco… (4)
19: Quick (HOT) Trip to the Park… (0)
18: Despatch from the Hubs of Hades (0)
17: A Balmy Evening… (0)
17: WHY….????? (1)
16: And now for a balmy afternoon…. (0)
15: At the Hubs of Hades… (0)
15: What next, Lord? (2)
12: Coolin’ Down! (0)
11: Glub! Underwater in Lovely Phoenix (2)
10: Amazon Publishing? Think Again! (0)
10: August in (un)Lovely Arizona (1)
07: Passing WARM…Passing on to Afternoon from Hell! (0)
06: Never a Dull Moment (0)
05: Hotter than a Two-Dollar Cookstove! (3)
04: All Fools’ Eve: July 4 (2)
03: RIP, Charley the Golden Retriever (4)
02: Hot Hot Hot (0)
01: {gasp!} (2)
01: Gonna keep shopping at Costco? (0)

June 2023 (13)
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29: Thank Heaven…. (4)
27: Exit the covid bug… (0)
25: YOUR DOG IS NOT YOUR KID! The fur-baby syndrome (0)
24: Another Every-Inch-Along-the-Way Day… (2)
19: Covidified! (0)
17: How to Cope with the Last Phase of a Lifetime… (9)
16: “You Can’t Get Away from It” (2)
15: Reel Estate….To Move or not to Move (0)
14: Another day, another cuppa coffee… (0)
12: Covid-Smacked and Delinquent-Zapped (0)
10: Lordie! STOP THE WORLD… (2)
05: Still Kickin’… (1)
02: And (cough!) today…. (0)

May 2023 (28)
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30: Please, Li’l AC Unit: DON’T die now! (5)
28: Life “in Today’s Modren Society” (3)
26: Humanity…HOW have we survived? (2)
26: Covid at 3:00 a.m. (2)
24: WHY? (0)
24: IS there a reason???? (0)
24: Pool Dudes, Yard Dudes, Irrigation Dudes…Great Guys (2)
23: Covid and Our Pets: How scared, really, should we be? (0)
23: Odders and Enders (0)
22: Some People Are Too Nice! (0)
22: Booted Out of Facebook :o( (2)
21: Eff Facebook! (0)
21: Coviding to Pretoria… (0)
20: Out of the Covid Woods? (2)
18: The Wages of Loafing (2)
17: i need a drink! (0)
17: Surprise! You get switched willy nilly! (2)
16: Never Rains But It Pours…. (0)
16: Day from Hell…on Steroids! (8)
14: Speaking of “Stop the World”…. (4)
11: STOP THE WORLD! (2)
09: GAAAAAAHHHHH! Life in the ‘Hood…. (3)
07: Crime Central, Richistani Edition (0)
06: Crime Central Comes a-Visitin’ (4)
05: Brave New World, Indeed… (9)
04: Online! It’s a miracle… (0)
04: No Escape from the Mayhem… (0)
01: Wow! Virusified!! (0)

April 2023 (11)
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29: Hee! Do the Days from Hell NEVER Stop? (0)
27: New Day from Hell a-Dawning
24: {gronk!} Dawdling away the day… (8)
20: Dog Back; Human Unraveled (2)
20: Waaah! I want my doggie!! (1)
20: Looking Forward (NOT!) to Another Lovely Day in Uptown Phoenix (0)
16: Where Ya Gunna Go? (0)
12: Change…for the better? (2)
08: Why I hate living in Phoenix (2)
05: Coyote to the Left of Us, Crook to the Right of Us… (0)
03: The Saga of the Fridge…continued (1)

March 2023 (15)
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30: Disappeared (3)
29: Memories…of pure terror… (0)
27: Monday: The Only Pretty Costco Day? (2)
26: Update: B&B Fridge Fiasco (0)
25: Stop the World….. (0)
22: How D’you Know When It’s Time to Go? (0)
19: Tree Assassinated! (0)
18: Gaaaahhhh! Wouldntcha know it? (1)
15: Gettin’ all computer-hassled out… (8)
12: The Birds Are Gone (0)
07: Why are American products in the can? (2)
06: Fridge Fantasia! (4)
05: ARE you kidding me??? (0)
02: Fridge Fiasco Update…. (0)
01: Life in Refrigerator Hell (0)

February 2023 (7)
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28: Unstuck in Time! (2)
26: Ahhh, The Good Ole Days…. (2)
19: A New Day from Hell: Four in the Morning (4)
13: Wanted: Indiana Jones for Senior Consumers (3)
06: When the Ground Turns to Jell-O (0)
05: Super Bowl y-Cumin’ In… (0)
01: AMEX to the Rescue! (9)

January 2023 (10)
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31: Bang-Bangs in the Night (6)
30: Another Fine Day from Hell y-Cumin’ In… (0)
21: Woman as Cargo Camel (6)
14: WERE the 1950s so bad? (0)
13: Bullies… (2)
12: Is Costco Worth the Hassle? (0)
12: Lemme Outta This Place! (0)
10: Stormy Weather y-Cumin In… (0)
04: Happy Gnu Year! (2)
03: Another Day to Cope With…. (4)

December 2022 (8)
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29: Staying Safe in Your Dotage (1)
27: Electronic Run-arounds in the Wild New Year (0)
24: Merry Christmas, Everyone! (0)
23: Food Prices: Brace for Impact! (0)
18: Bah! El Humbugo! said she… (3)
13: Life in the Land of the Dumb and the Feckless (0)
09: (Re)Locked! And…Mystified… (0)
07: Still Struggling to Get Back (0)

November 2022 (3)
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29: And as long as we’re enjoying the Valley of the Sun’s blandishments… (2)
29: Doglarming! (0)
09: Morning in Arizona… (0)

October 2022 (9)
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31: Yipes! ANOTHER Cop “Incident”? (0)
25: Yipes! Another Monday Already??? WaitWait… (0)
17: Dispatch from Costco’s Tire Shop: Monday as Day From Hell (4)
14: Ancestors (1)
13: good-BYE, Costco…and dammit, this time I mean it! (0)
10: Stop the World…. (0)
07: Stormy stormy day… (0)
05: Computer Complications (4)
01: Do we really want to rescue these folks?… (0)

September 2022 (8)
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25: Leave. My. Dog. Alone…PLEASE! (0)
22: ‘Bye, Amazon! (0)
19: Crazier and Crazier (2)
17: Whatever Can Go Wrong… (0)
14: Are You Crazy to Have Kids Today? (0)
11: Time to Move Along? (0)
05: Times Have Been a-Changin’… (0)
03: AWAY in a Cloud of Smoke… (0)

August 2022 (12)
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29: Fone Frolicks and Fluff… (1)
26: Life in Hell… (4)
24: Brave New World…redux (3)
23: Dotage Daydreaming (3)
14: Life in the ‘Hood: Stay or Flee? (0)
12: The View from the Steam Cooker (0)
12: Weather, Arizona-style (0)
09: Never a Freakin’ Dull Moment… (0)
09: Dental Insurance in Retirement…or No? (0)
07: Scamarama! (2)
07: PayPal: It Never Goes Away (4)
02: What WERE we thinking? (2)

July 2022 (9)
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31: Arrividerci, Costco (2)
25: Less Is More…or at least better (0)
23: B’bye, Costco! (2)
17: Another Fine Day in Crime Central.. (2)
12: And we’re only halfway through another weird day… (0)
09: Time to Buy a New Car? (4)
08: The Automotive Jamboree (2)
04: Arf-a-Roonies! (0)
03: Moving for Olde Age? (0)

June 2022 (10)
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30: Drivin’ Drivin’ Drivin’…. (4)
30: Never a Dull Moment… (0)
28: Fiasco Update: The Pool, the Pal, and all That (0)
26: All Around the Swimming-Pool Hole… (4)
21: Making Telephone Solicitation FUN…. (2)
17: The Cancer That Is Not a Cancer (6)
14: The Doggie (and Fire Siren) Jamboree (2)
11: Count Your Blessings… (0)
10: Life in Dystopia… (7)
04: Skeeters and Coils and Termites and Stuff… (1)

May 2022 (10)
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23: Drop a Tranquilizer before Visiting a Gas Station… (6)
22: California Dreamin’…or is that a nightmare? (0)
21: Looney Toons in the Brave New World (0)
17: {grump} All Hell Continues to Work Its Way Loose (2)
12: Whatever can go wrong… (6)
08: Round and Round We Go…. (0)
05: Still online… (5)
04: Probably Kaput this time… (9)
03: Mac-a-Scam (0)
03: STOP THE WORLD! (0)

April 2022 (12)
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30: {sigh} About to Give Up (6)
27: Dear-Sir-You-Cur of the day… (9)
26: Day from Hell, in the Mode of L.A. East… (2)
25: Cutting Out the Technohassles (5)
23: Weather Report: Scattered Scam Flurries (1)
22: A-n-n-n-n-d….Another Day in Computer Hell (2)
18: Another lovely day in beautiful Arizona… (2)
18: Let’s see if this works…. (0)
18: MacHassle (4)
15: MacNever-Never-Land (4)
10: Just about Brave-New-Worlded Out… (0)
02: Bye-bye Costco! (2)

March 2022 (7)
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30: Lost in Darkest Scottsdale (2)
24: Scam-a-Rama! (0)
23: Never a Dull Moment (0)
16: Real Estate: California Territory (4)
10: Did she…or didn’t she? (4)
04: Using CBD for Peripheral Neuropathy (0)
01: Confused… (4)

February 2022 (6)
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19: Theft Damage Control: Battening down the hatches (1)
18: Fill up that afternoon… (6)
16: Wow! How long can this go on????? (0)
12: The Endless Tide of Hassles… (5)
06: Bold little scammers, aren’t they? (1)
04: What’s a Dollar Worth, Anyhow? (0)

January 2022 (6)
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31: Life in Lovely Uptown Phoenix… (0)
28: We’re set…with any luck (3)
27: In Case Funny Goes Away… (0)
23: She’s B-a-a-a-a-c-k!… (1)
15: For Nothing Happening… (4)
07: Got this email message? DON’T ANSWER IT (1)

December 2021 (11)
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29: Food Is Supposed to Taste Like… (2)
22: Dear Amazon: Oversell Is Overkill… (0)
19: The Planless Plan… (2)
18: Another Fine Day in Solitary Confinement (2)
14: Driving in Phoenix…with God as My Copilot (0)
09: Another Lovely Day in Lovely Arizona… (2)
09: Blogger Beware! (0)
08: Just in case this site goes dark… (0)
07: Can’t Live With’em, Can’t Live Without’em… (4)
06: Life in these New-nited States… (3)
01: What? A Poem of What… (0)

November 2021 (8)
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28: Loafifying… (2)
24: Brave…Strange New World (2)
20: Thanksgiving Is y-Cumin’ In… (0)
14: Dear Elected Representative, Chapter 2 (2)
12: Dear Elected Representative… (0)
09: Tell me we’re not this old… (0)
07: Slow-Motion Suicide? (2)
01: Á la recherche des mops perdus… (6)

October 2021 (4)
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31: Happy {sigh} Hallowe’en… (0)
30: New Adventures in Real Estate (8)
26: Real Estate, Landlords, and the ‘Hood: Update (1)
06: Real Estate Window-Shopping (11)

September 2021 (5)
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28: Scored my fix! (2)
17: Another Fine Day in Crime Central (0)
11: 9/11: Twenty Years On… (2)
06: Houses, Houses, Houses…. (2)
01: Hyperinflation and the House Shopper… (4)

August 2021 (8)
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29: Mules (0)
28: Noises (0)
27: Today’s the Day… (2)
21: Apartment House Dreamin’? (0)
19: Epistle from the Church’s Reception Desk: You Know You’ve Been Stuck in a Rut Too Long When…. (0)
11: A Quick Guide to Taxes for Self-Employed American Expats (0)
08: A Raft Made of Palm Fronds (6)
01: The State of the…Whatever-We’ve-Got-Here… (7)

July 2021 (7)
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26: Unstuck in Time (3)
21: Newton’s Third Law of Disequilibrium (2)
16: Soggy Day in Rattie Central (0)
14: Rat Wars: Cavalry the Rescue (4)
11: “Another Beautiful Day in Arizona…” (2)
06: Hotter’n the Hubs… (2)
03: Rat Wars: The Battle of the Runway (0)

June 2021 (6)
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24: Bizarrer and Bizarrer (0)
21: One of those damnfool days…all the way around (0)
19: The Rattie Rondeaux (2)
16: Real Estate Through the Roof: Right up with the cop helicopters (2)
13: A Dog and Her Burglar (2)
06: How Much Is That…Thingie…in the Window? (0)

May 2021 (6)
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26: Where were we? (0)
18: Movin’ on Up… (0)
13: So how’s that pot workin’…? (0)
10: Grrrrrrrrr! Stop the freakin’ world…. (2)
05: b-a-a-a-d human! (0)
05: Cheaper by far… (5)

April 2021 (8)
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29: In the Land of Pot… (2)
24: Soooo…how’s that pot workin’ out for ya? (0)
19: Thank you, Amazon… (2)
17: There Is a [Pot] House in New Orleans… (2)
15: Adventures in Medical Science…again… (0)
13: Life as a Splinter in the Foot… (2)
05: Costco Jeans Redux (3)
02: Shopping Adventure in the Absence of Instacart… (4)

March 2021 (7)
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31: Out of the tunnel of annoyance, into the daylight of hilarity… (1)
27: Machinating Toward Normalcy (6)
26: Walloped, continued (5)
17: Hairsassination (1)
12: Busted (literally) and Disgusted (4)
09: One thing after another (2)
05: Forward to the Past… (0)

February 2021 (5)
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28: She had good taste… (4)
26: Historic perambulations (0)
15: Aging in Place: How to Pull It off (3)
08: Love Under a Coyote Moon (0)
07: WHY I’m never shopping at Walgreen’s again! (2)

January 2021 (15)
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30: PLEASE! Keep your dog under control (0)
28: Just Hang Up! (0)
24: Covid Vaccination: State of Arizona vs. Sanity (2)
23: The Walking History Archive (1)
22: iPhone to the Rescue! (4)
19: She’s OUT! She’s Off and Running! (0)
18: Accommodations… (4)
17: Bum’s Paradise (0)
14: The Ineffable Impossibility of Covid-19 Vaccination… (5)
12: And in case you’re thinkin’ I’m crazy… (0)
12: Preppin’ Time! (3)
10: Companies NOT to do business with: (3)
09: Largesse à la Uncle Sam (0)
07: Speaking of Nightmaring… (6)
01: Tiny House Dreamin’…or Nightmaring? (3)

December 2020 (8)
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31: So What Happened with Ruby the Corgi? (0)
30: Comfort Food(oid) for Times of Stress (2)
29: Day from Hell to Wrap Up the Year from Hell (0)
25: Merry Weird Christmas! (11)
15: Amazon and the Discriminating Porch Pirate (0)
07: Weekend as Hassle Magnet (6)
04: Duck and Cover! HOLY mackerel!! (0)
02: The Queen of Ugly (7)

November 2020 (11)
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30: The Attic Bootie (6)
24: In the Village Cluster (0)
19: Loafing for Levity… (0)
13: Dogs, Scofflaws, and Penitentiary Gray (3)
12: Driving to Drink… (2)
11: Life in the Department of Looney Tunes… (0)
10: Of dogs and cops and copters… (2)
09: And so…a new start! (4)
06: Election Numbers (6)
02: Prepping For a Trump Loss (15)
01: The Biggest Bugaboo of Hallowe’en… (0)

October 2020 (11)
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28: Shopping in the Age of Covid (0)
25: Morning in Arizona… (2)
23: A Dog in the Night… (0)
20: Funny’s New Clothes… (0)
20: Scam Alert (3)
19: Adventures in Home Ownership: “Foist It Off” Edition (0)
15: Standing By…but Not Standing Back (2)
14: Why am I a cranky old bat? Because… (6)
13: Comments de-commented? (0)
11: Voting! (6)
08: Have No Fear… (3)

September 2020 (9)
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30: Life at the Funny Farm: September Edition (2)
26: Où sont les amours de lointain? (1)
20: You thought YESTERDAY was another lovely day in Arizona? (2)
19: Another lovely day in Arizona… (0)
12: Inflation (0)
10: Changes: After the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (2)
10: There’ll be some changes made… (0)
09: The forgetfulness of places (2)
05: If You Were Your Kid… (0)

August 2020 (11)
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31: Staying Healthy in Third-World America (2)
29: Adventures in Pharmaceutical Marketing (1)
25: Plumbing Update (4)
20: Plumber Frolics (4)
20: What a Day! (0)
18: These Tips will Help you to Get Your Finances Back on Track (0)
17: Tips for Working Out Your Budget When Buying a New Car (0)
15: A Day from Holy Hell… (2)
13: Martha McSally: A Grand Republican Fob-Off (0)
11: Magic Dragon to the Rescue (1)
05: Adventures in Bureaucracy: Motor Vehicle Division (6)

July 2020 (9)
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31: Adventures in Medical Science: Blood Sugar Frolic (7)
25: Shenanigans Update… (2)
17: Exit Facebook, Stage Left (11)
16: The Dawning of the Light… (4)
14: Routine, Crisis, and Grief in the Age of Covid (0)
13: Gasoline-o-Wow!!! (6)
11: Too Stunned to Come Up with Titles… (0)
08: Shopping without Shopping… (4)
07: The Wine Stash gambit (3)

June 2020 (10)
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30: Doggy Divin’ at the Break of Day (0)
29: Customer Service(?) at Cox (0)
24: Amazon Reviews: Take ’em with a grain of salt (4)
19: Adventures of Connie the Trucker (3)
18: Watching Paint Dry… (4)
17: Department of Graft: Trump campaigns on your dollar (2)
14: Coffee…and Changing Times (2)
09: Learned from the Covid Plague… (6)
06: Ask the Hive Mind: What IS the percentage of covid cases here? And what does it mean? (8)
05: Not Dead Yet… (3)

May 2020 (12)
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29: Of Retail, Runners, Recession, and…Birds? (2)
24: The Great Freezer Renovation Project… (2)
22: Planning Ahead: The NEXT Covid Epidemic (9)
20: The Great iPhone Project… (18)
18: Amazon: Beware this gouge! (1)
17: Choir in the Age of Covid (2)
14: Gasoline in the Age of Covid (2)
09: Lockdown Learning: Hacks from the Covid Confinement (2)
07: Can’t Win for Losin’: Covid Variant (4)
07: Not in Kansas Anymore… (1)
04: The Instacart Experiment: Living & Learning (2)
03: The Coconut Furniture Oil Jamboree (2)

April 2020 (13)
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29: Instacart Redux: Better, but… (4)
28: First Instacart Experiment: FAIL! (6)
26: Making the Best of Self-Isolation (0)
26: Life in the ‘Hood: Never a Dull Moment (0)
23: In which Funny risks her life for a drainpipe (10)
20: Sentimentalia (4)
18: Meditations in the Time of Plague (3)
13: Progress in the Time of Cholera (4)
11: The Strange Benefits of “Lockdown” (4)
06: Never a Dull Moment in the ‘Hood (0)
05: Amazonian Frenzy! (0)
03: Dispatch from “Prison” (0)
02: Greta (1)

March 2020 (14)
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28: Fear and…Cleaning?…in the Time of Cholera (0)
26: Of Groceries and Gates (3)
21: Why Toilet Paper? Well…here’s why (7)
20: How to Sanitize Fresh Produce: Kill those Corvid Germs! (0)
20: No Cure for Stupid (3)
15: Covid Prophylactic? (0)
14: Adventures in Panickland (5)
13: Watch Out: Covid-related malware (0)
11: A Strategy for the Plague? (0)
10: Love (of $$) in the Time of Cholera (0)
08: Covid-19: Hysteria or Common Sense? (5)
06: Panic à Costco? (6)
06: WordPress.com Hack (0)
02: Four Quick and Easy Ways to Generate Income In Your Everyday Life (0)

February 2020 (12)
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27: Of Taxes and Best-Laid Plans and Lamps… (5)
22: Rain on the Roof… (0)
20: Gaaah! One Thing After Another (4)
18: Lampquest! (0)
17: …And I’m complaining…WHY? (6)
14: Lamp Tragedy: Rays of Light (0)
13: Adventures in Antiquity (1)
11: I Are a English Major… (0)
10: No End to Small Miracles (2)
08: The Key to My… (1)
03: Jack Frost Is y-Cumin’ In (0)
02: Ruby to the Rescue! (2)

January 2020 (16)
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29: And the Evening Not to Be Outdone by the Day… (0)
29: Dear Credit Union: What ARE you thinking? (2)
26: It’s the Little Things That Count… (4)
25: How Much Time, Lord… (10)
24: One Damnfool Thing after Another (2)
23: And we’re ordering from Amazon…WHY? (2)
21: Old Age: Fightin’ Back! (4)
17: Why Blog…Still? (13)
15: Cranky as a Cat…. (2)
13: Hallelujah! Another miracle…in spite of it all (5)
11: Ever have one of those *CLICK* moments? (6)
09: “New” Car…Again??? (2)
08: We’re Not in Kansas Anymore…are we? (1)
07: Adventures in Medical Science: Allergy Edition (0)
05: Techno-Loafing: The Reluctant Consumer (3)
01: Another Day, Another New Year. (1)

December 2019 (16)
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30: Life and Death in Dystopia (2)
25: Merry Christmas(?) (0)
23: You Can’t Escape from Stupid (4)
19: De-Banking and Re-Banking (5)
17: Why I Hate My Car (7)
16: An Aging-in-Place Solution? (2)
14: Revival Time (0)
12: Down at the HQ (4)
09: Stay or Fly: The Busted Paw, the Peeper, and the Doc (2)
08: One Damnfool Thing after Another (3)
08: Walloped (0)
07: Cox the Feeble…America the Disconnected? (0)
06: Burglar Hacks: How to discourage prowlers (4)
02: Live-Blogging from the Apple Store… (0)
02: When You Think You Have Nothing to Do… (0)
01: Is It Just Me…or Is It Just Chaos? (0)

November 2019 (13)
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27: Block-a-Rama (2)
27: Impractical Subjects… (1)
26: Life in the Brave New World (0)
21: Here Comes the Sun… (0)
20: Under Frikkin’ Petty Siege… (3)
19: The Bug, the Dog, the ‘Hood, the Weather (2)
15: Morons, Money, and Ay-Mazement (2)
11: What WERE we thinking? (2)
08: Found: Lost Gadget. Found: Food! (1)
07: How much longer, dear Lord? (3)
06: HOLY Good Morning, America!! (1)
04: This is gunna kill me… (1)
01: Updates: Bleach and Bugs (10)

October 2019 (17)
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31: So Much for Amazon… (2)
30: Coff! Coff! Coff! (2)
28: Whinge, Continued… (0)
28: Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me… (0)
26: Crawling Out from Under the Rock (2)
23: Why, Exactly? (2)
21: {moan!} (5)
17: The Comeback Kid? (0)
16: Never Pours but It Rains… (1)
15: WordPress to the Rescue…partly (2)
11: Wonders of the Brave New World (2)
10: News Shell-Shock (1)
06: Could a Smart Home Reduce Your Insurance Premiums? (1)
06: A Wrenching Decision… (2)
03: Green Hemorrhage (0)
02: A Minor Triumph…and a YIPES! (0)
01: Out of the Frying Pan into…?… (0)

September 2019 (11)
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27: Dogs and Depots… (4)
23: Tornadoes Outside, Whirlwind Inside (0)
19: Make Our Plastic Buckets Great Again! (4)
18: Crabby Gardening Lady (0)
16: Wacka-Day… (4)
15: Saudi Arabia: SO glad to be gone… (3)
12: Live-Blogging from the Doc’s Office (0)
10: Thanks, Mr. Stranger Man… (6)
10: PayPal: Why you should avoid it (0)
05: Wind, water, and flying marbles… (5)
03: Sittin’ at the Front Desk (0)

August 2019 (14)
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31: Soo…How’s the Snake Oil Workin’? (0)
30: Dog(walk) Days of Summer (0)
29: Any Bum in a Port… (0)
28: Rain! (0)
25: Oil and Water: The Miracle Cure? (3)
23: Batten Down the Hatches! Prepare for the next recession NOW (6)
21: The Dog-Walk Jamboree (0)
20: What ARE you smokin’? And how do I get rid of you? (6)
15: The Strangeness of Everyday Life (4)
13: Pool (still…literally)/Home Depot Rescue/Doggy Miracle (2)
11: The Big Pool Decision: Stay or Go? (20)
07: Dodging the Bullets? (5)
03: Hot Pool Update (0)
02: Lost in Dystopia??? (0)

July 2019 (15)
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31: Drivin’, Drivin’, Drivin’… (3)
30: Hotter Than the Fourth of July! (4)
26: Report from Foggy Bottom (0)
26: Progress Update in the Do-Nothing Department (0)
25: Prioritize the Freakin’ Priorities! (1)
23: The Hotter’n’Hell, Pool Mess, Dog Menace, Little Ol’ Lady Jamboree (4)
20: Money Back on the Card, & a Shopping Coup(?) (8)
19: Summertime, and the Livin’ Is…Keeriminey!!! (0)
14: Texas Soap, Continued… (2)
11: Genealogy Part II: The Texas Soap Opera (1)
09: The Genealogy Jamboree (4)
05: Yuch! Don’t buy Precise brand dog food!!! (0)
05: Oddities of the ‘Hood, Oddities of Humanity (1)
04: A-n-n-d…The July 4 Jamboree (4)
01: How to Age in Place… (6)

June 2019 (19)
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29: 110 in the Shade (2)
27: The Appliance Jamboree (8)
26: Stay? Or Move While You Can? The Old Lady’s Dilemma (0)
24: At Five in the Morning… (3)
23: Thisses, Thats, and the Others (6)
20: Hookin’ Up at the…uhm…HOME DEPOT????? (0)
19: Toward Freedom in Old Age (2)
18: Woo HOO! Cleaning Lady Jamboree! (2)
16: Modern Inconveniences: The “Water-saving” Toilet (4)
14: Blood pressure drama, revisited… (0)
14: Invasive Species… (0)
12: Good things…Dumb things (0)
10: Why I Love Walmart People… (2)
10: Pests…and pests (0)
08: The Difference between a German Shepherd & a Corgi… (0)
06: Money: Not as “Funny” as Suspected (0)
05: HEALED! A little dental miracle… (2)
03: The Small Joys of Life in the Desert (0)
02: Driven? (0)

May 2019 (17)
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31: Conundrum of the Day: To Drive or Not to Drive? (2)
29: Household Laziness (0)
28: Weaseled Out! (0)
24: Joys of the Day (1)
23: Attacked! (3)
22: Life as a Cascade of Chores, Punctuated by Weirdness (2)
20: Hello Again, Little CPR Call Blocker! Good-bye NoMoRobo! (0)
19: Adventures in Dental Science (6)
15: Chewing Up the Tax Refund (1)
12: The Scaredest Moment… (2)
10: Dog Joy! (0)
09: Phone-dango! (2)
08: One Don’t-Wanna DONE! (0)
07: The Weirdness That Is Walmart (0)
05: Networking: Time Is Money? (0)
02: The Wages of Longevity (4)
01: The iPhone Surrender (7)

April 2019 (17)
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29: A break in the clouds… (1)
27: The Chaos Hangover (1)
25: And now i want… (0)
23: “Why didn’t I think of that…?” (4)
22: Why I stopped carrying a purse… (4)
22: Chaos, continued… (4)
20: Update from Chaos Central (0)
19: Descent into Chaos (1)
15: A Touch of Heaven in a Day from Hell (4)
13: Currified scallops, greens, pasta, & stuff (2)
13: Small Town/Big City: A study in contrasts (0)
08: Live-Blogging (sorta…) from Bureaucracy Hell (4)
07: Pace Facebook, Pace Twitter! (4)
05: Flutterbyes and Flowers and Springtime (0)
03: The Costco Glasses Jamboree (0)
02: Crazy Driver Season (0)
01: The Starbucks Jamboree (6)

March 2019 (17)
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31: What Planet Am I On? (0)
26: Life in Outer Dystopia (10)
23: Closet Clean-out EXTREME! (0)
21: Life in Hell…Life in the Dystopia…Thank You, Apple (0)
19: Running on High-Test Gas… (2)
17: Walloped! (4)
16: Closets (1)
15: Golden Shepherd? German Retriever? (2)
15: Wiring Payment from China: Another Fine Idea Kicks the Bucket (0)
13: Heard the Wind Blow Before (2)
12: Women and Their Ways (8)
11: The Mattress and the Housework (2)
10: One thing after another… (1)
07: Housecleaning and Moths…Oh, My! (4)
05: Life in Dystopia (2)
02: Something there is about painting a door… (0)
01: Paypal: STAY AWAY from Paypal! (9)

February 2019 (13)
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28: Done for…well…for the time being (0)
24: WHY Apple? Well, lemme tellya…. (0)
22: Cold, Colds, and SNOW IN SCOTTSDALE (2)
21: Rain, Cold, and…A Cold??? (0)
20: El Gobierno Quiere Ayudarte… (0)
18: Eatin’, Workin’, Doggin’…Rainin’? (2)
15: “River of….” FOG? (2)
14: Life in the Big City: Moron Edition (1)
12: The Frost Is on the Palm Tree… (2)
09: Good Saturday! (0)
08: Comedy of Errors…That Ends Well (2)
06: Bills and Taxes and Budgets and Mathematicians, Oh My! (2)
04: Hassle after hassle after hassle (2)

January 2019 (23)
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31: American Retirement: Be scared, be VERY scared??? (6)
30: RIP, Jack Bogle (1)
29: Pests and Nuisances, Oh My! 😀 (3)
28: Pain Pain Pain (4)
26: The Queen Is Dead…Long Live the Queen! (0)
25: Is Your Contractor Insured? Really? (6)
25: Discoveries: A couple of life lessons learned (1)
22: Long-Term Care Insurance? REALLY? (9)
20: Doggy Cleanup, Toasted with Fireworks (0)
20: The Thrift Store Jamboree (3)
18: The Never-a-Dull-Moment Department (3)
17: Lo! A Dog Emerges! (1)
15: In the aftermath of Cassie (4)
14: Au Revoir, Little Cassie (16)
13: On the Road to Heaven’s Gate (10)
12: Come Saturday Mornin’… (0)
11: Robocall Exploits: Part II (1)
10: New Robocaller Exploit? Or…just coincidence? (0)
09: Pillar to Post…or is that Po$t? (1)
08: Use It Up or (Dammit) THROW IT OUT (8)
05: In the Company of Dogs (0)
04: Receipt Eradication… (3)
01: Monks, Bums, and Pee Pads: Why I Love the Walmart (6)

December 2018 (21)
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31: Happy New Year! I think… (2)
29: Life at the Old-Folkerie…or is it the Ritz-Carlton? (0)
27: Singed and Frozen (4)
24: Merry Christmas…i guess (3)
23: The Holiday Dog Food Jamboree (0)
21: Life on the Phoenix Roads… (0)
18: Nuisance Abatement: Ads, Phone Calls (0)
17: So How’d That Pool Update Go? (2)
15: Uhmmm? Is there something we should know? (4)
14: Doggy Miracle? (0)
13: Smart-Ass Answers: The Christmas Gambit (0)
12: Choir: The Antidote to Days from Hell (0)
12: Enough, already! (6)
11: Another Fine Evening in the ’Hood… (0)
10: 1950s Yankee Lasagna: 21st-Century Update (0)
08: El Gobierno Quiere Ayudarte! Thanks, Dear Government, but… (0)
07: Work Avoidance: A Salable Skill? (4)
06: Frustration → Redemption (4)
04: In the Dog (and Doc) Dept: Trust Your Gut… (2)
03: Computer Spoofed…we think… (2)
01: Done In and Dogged Out (0)

November 2018 (20)
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30: How to Restore a Tired Whiteboard (1)
27: Merchants: Savin’ me money! (3)
25: Did a misdiagnosis kill my dog? (1)
24: i-Hassle (4)
23: Post-Thanksgiving (0)
22: Happy(?) Thanksgiving (0)
21: NoMoRobo: FINALLY here!!! (0)
20: Life in Arizona: Pooches, Drivers, Wackshit Neighbors (2)
17: The Dogs of Our Lives (0)
16: Walmart(!) Neutralizes a Day from Hell… (0)
15: Open the Window and Let the Damn Sunshine In! (0)
14: Shingles Vaccine Wow II (8)
13: $hingles Vaccine: WOW!!! (4)
12: DogUpdate: A kind of reprieve (2)
12: The things people eat… (4)
10: Black Cloth and Ashes (2)
08: Dogsters, Copters, Costco, Pool…oh shit (0)
07: We Need a Party of Common Sense! (1)
02: Pool Refill Day(s) (4)
01: Hallowe’en Doggy Update (0)

October 2018 (34)
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31: Skeeters! How to keep mosquitoes out of your potted plants (3)
30: Exit the woodpile! (0)
29: Corgi: The Saga Continues! (6)
28: Doggy Update (4)
28: Go to Sleep, My Little Baby (10)
26: Dog, Pool (0)
25: Chambray Shirt! (4)
24: MacFiasco, continued (2)
23: A-n-n-d It’s Back to Nightmare Central (0)
22: Holy Mackerel! It’s NOT… (6)
21: Horror$! The Cost of the Weeks from Hell… (2)
20: The Cloned Life… (10)
20: State of the Chaos (0)
19: Gnus of the Day (1)
18: Corgi LIVES… (0)
18: Why We Pay More for Apple Products… (0)
17: …from Worse to Hilarious? (0)
17: …And the Beat Goes On (0)
15: A little frugalista prepper strategy… (2)
15: …and the Dust Settles (0)
13: Comes the Deluge… (0)
12: Month from Hell: It gets even BETTER! (4)
12: Stress and Budget Stress (1)
11: Dogruminations… (3)
10: Doggy Doom? (2)
09: Time to Take in the Slack… (0)
08: Hear that Sound in the Sky? (4)
08: Life on the West Side… (0)
07: A Quieter Day in Hell… (0)
06: Gets worse, if that’s possible (8)
05: Dispatches from Hell… (0)
03: Rain, Rain, Go Away… (1)
02: Eight Dogs and a Bird (0)
01: From Bad to Worse… (2)

September 2018 (28)
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30: Dog: Can’t win department (2)
29: A little…doggy miracle? (0)
29: So…what next? (0)
28: Dog…fading (0)
27: Sick Dog: Deciding what to do…or not to do (5)
26: What’s Sauce for the Goose… (0)
26: Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Debt to Consider (0)
25: Skip the Coffee and Invest in These 3 Affordable Ways Instead (0)
24: 4 Stocks That Surprised Investors (2)
24: On Being a Woman in America (2)
22: There, but for… (0)
22: Doggy Ups and Downs (0)
21: Doggy Update: Death Refuses to Have Her (5)
21: Doggy & Human Ups and Downs (4)
20: Second Opinions…and you didn’t think of this…WHY??? (1)
18: What d’you make of this story… (6)
17: Cassie the Corgi, Redux (2)
16: Cassie: Still Extant… (5)
15: All I want for Christmas… (5)
14: Never a Dull Moment: Dog Department (0)
13: Another Day Late… (0)
12: Old Dogs, New Tricks? (0)
11: Ella’s Story LIVES! (0)
09: Shingrix: Walgreen’s 0, Safeway 1 (1)
06: Human to Dog: Do not even THINK it… (0)
04: In Pursuit of the Elusive Shingrix… (6)
03: Paying Work DONE! At last…. (0)
02: All-Time RECORD LOW on AMEX! Woo hooo! (0)

August 2018 (20)
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30: If It Ain’t Broke… (2)
28: Grocery Bags…Back to the Future? (10)
26: To Move or Not to Move…That is the question: in numbers! (4)
24: Woo HOO! Girl’s Guide to Knife Renovation! (1)
24: New Knives? Or Old Folks’ Stuff? (0)
23: Crabby as a cat… (1)
22: Report from Damage Control Central (7)
21: The Mutability of Digitality… (0)
21: Storms and Blueberries (2)
18: Budget Micro-smugness (2)
18: The Pre-Dawn Doggy Walk (0)
16: Dollars and Tree$ (4)
15: Let’s Say Something Personal-Financey (3)
13: WooHOO! Proposal: GONE! (0)
10: Voted! (0)
09: Time flies…damn fast! (0)
06: Of iPhones and Spinning Wheels and Ella’s Story (1)
05: Heat-Soaked, Heat-Tired… (2)
03: The Strange Benefits of Insomnia (0)
01: Crazy Ol’ Lady Day at Costco (8)

July 2018 (24)
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31: Live-Blogging from Storm Central (2)
29: Looks Like It’s Time to Move Along… (9)
26: Beware the DIY Appliance Installation (7)
24: Overlazied and Underpaid… (0)
22: Budgetarium… (2)
21: Report from the Hubs of Hades (2)
19: Things You Can Learn From International Business (0)
18: Poor Li’l Dog (6)
17: She breathes…she moves…she…writes? (0)
17: Things That Go Bump in the Night… (0)
16: Enough, already… (0)
15: Report from Sauna Central (0)
13: $$ Hair $$ (8)
12: Coyote Morning (0)
10: Rain! At last! (0)
09: Why I Bank at a Credit Union… (9)
09: Top 5 Reasons to Open a Bitcoin IRA (0)
07: Adventures in Pool Ownership (3)
05: Why I Buy Apple Computers (1)
04: So…the Fire Prevention Scheme? How’d it work? (2)
04: Why Didn’t I Think of That Before… (4)
03: MacBook Is Back!! So… (2)
02: Some Punkins! (4)
01: The Miracle of the Costco Budget (2)

June 2018 (32)
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30: Cash Card as Budget “Envelope” (0)
28: Budget off the Rails (4)
27: Asked…again (2)
26: Woo Hoo! Thank you, Apple… (0)
26: Mwa ha ha! A better way to publish *FREE BOOKS* (0)
24: A Fed Coyote… (0)
23: Ouch! Ugh! and Whew!!! (0)
22: Ars Bloggiendi: The Art of Blogging (0)
21: Ant Wars: The Battle of the Butter Dish! (0)
21: Woo hoo! Lifestyle change WORKS on blood pressure! (0)
20: What about those long ER waits? (0)
19: Fighting Uphill through Dystopia (1)
18: What Possesses People? (0)
16: Gray (0)
15: How to Cause Angels to Sing (4)
15: Ah Hah! INSIGHT! (0)
14: But it’s a…soggy heat… (0)
14: Budgeting: Back to the Envelope Method (6)
13: Thievin’ Tweakers, Tweakers’ Thievin’… (4)
11: Ella’s Story, If You’d Asked Me, The Complete Writer (0)
11: Credit Bureaus, Outrages, Invasion of Privacy, and a Defunct Post Office (1)
10: SIX CENTS????????? (2)
09: How’s That [fill-in-the-blank] Workin’ for Ya? (0)
08: The Complete Writer…Completely Crazy-Making Writer? (0)
07: Losing the Visa Card but Keeping Costco (7)
07: Facebook: How’s Life without It? (0)
06: Back to the Future…Again (7)
04: A Balmy Day in Arizona (2)
04: Ella’s Story…next chapter (0)
03: The Ah Hah! Moment: Claritin and Liver Toxicity (2)
02: Round and round she goes… (0)
01: How Journalists Dig up the Dirt (0)

May 2018 (24)
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30: Askin’ and Writin’ (0)
29: Memorial Day, Memories, and Amazing Work (2)
27: Gate Bait (8)
25: Dredging up the Facts… (0)
24: New Marketing Strategy Kicks In (4)
23: What if…that guy wants to steal your dog? (0)
23: Running around in Circles (2)
23: Want To Become A Freelancer? Build An Emergency Fund First! (1)
22: “Another Beautiful Day in Arizona…” (0)
21: Ella’s Story, Chapter 17… (5)
21: Gooood morning, America… (0)
20: Life in Eden…stay or leave? (0)
18: Banned in…Menlo Park? (9)
16: The Six-Restaurant Lunch (7)
14: Plus ça change? (6)
11: This, That, and the ‘Tother… (0)
09: Keyboard: The outcome (3)
08: Magazines lost (6)
07: De-accessioning As Frugalist Strategy (1)
06: Keyboards: Back to the Future! (2)
05: Amazon the Addictive (7)
03: To REALLY retire or not to REALLY retire? (0)
02: NOT the fungus that ate Arizona, after all! (0)
02: Never a Dull Moment… (2)

April 2018 (21)
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30: Buying: The Herd Instinct (2)
27: The Drugging of America: Lifestyle as Remedy (0)
25: Out, About, and the Frugality of DIY (6)
24: Yipes! Allergic to life??? (0)
23: Trash Scavengers: What Could Go Wrong? (6)
21: Of Bums and Dogs and Homes (1)
19: To know or not to know… (0)
19: The Drugging of America: Deprescribing (0)
17: The Drugging of America: Who Funds That Treatment? (0)
16: Spin Those Wheels! (2)
15: You Should’ve Seen the Other Guy… (3)
14: Oh, for an April Shower! (0)
12: The Drugging of America: Hyped-up Hypertension (0)
12: Still kickin’… (0)
09: The Drugging of America: The (Highly Lucrative) “Pre-Condition” (0)
08: Wherever You’re Goin’… (0)
08: Sumer is y-cumen…again! (0)
06: *FREE READS* Galore! How about some participatory reading? (0)
05: The Drugging of America: NNT and You (0)
03: The Drugging of America: Overprescription (5)
02: Uhm…Progress made: Ella’s Story (0)

March 2018 (25)
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29: The Elevator Escapade (2)
29: Wow! Pharmaceutical Overkill and the Average Sheeple (2)
28: Stressed & De-Stressed (3)
27: Amazon vs Costco: The Impulse Buy Olympics (7)
26: So much for best-laid plans… (1)
23: How to Be a Writer: Progress! (0)
23: Rain! Hooo-rah! (1)
22: Six Good Things? (0)
21: Up the Hill Again…and back (1)
20: How to Read a Research Paper: It’s Easier Than You’d Think (1)
19: Gaming the Mountain: YAHOO! (0)
18: How to Get Fit in Phoenix (0)
18: 5 Reasons you may not Have Enough Life Insurance Coverage (0)
17: Money, Medical Practice, and the Patient (8)
16: Mall as Gym? (2)
13: Annoyance, Anxiety, and Pain? (4)
12: It Lives! It Moves! (0)
09: More of Ella’s story…the serial adventure (0)
08: Morning at the Mayo… (7)
07: Driverless Cars: Brave(r) New World? (4)
06: Another Fine Day in the ‘Hood…Another “Fine” Apple Product (2)
06: The Latest Online: Two more chapters of Ella’s Story *FREE!* (0)
05: New [*FREE!*] chapter online: THE COMPLETE WRITER (2)
02: Woo HOO! THREE new *FREE* books up at P&S Press! (9)
01: How to Make Your Tax Accountant Crazy… (0)

February 2018 (15)
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28: Techno-Crabbiness: It’s CONTAGIOUS! (15)
26: I need another hole in my head…. (2)
24: Wining Time (4)
20: Flyin’ Low… (0)
17: Techno-skeptic: I could’ve predicted this… (0)
17: Getting Rid of Siri (2)
14: Oranges and Rain (4)
12: {moan} Life in the Land of Old Age.. (7)
10: Cox vs Ooma: Erring(?) on the Side of Caution (6)
08: Siri, RESET! (2)
06: Of phones and securities and numerals… (4)
05: Down the Tubes by 1200 points… (4)
05: Sautéed Shrimp in Bed with Curried Spinach (0)
04: Cutting the Lifetime Supply Down to Size (2)
02: Incommunicado (0)

January 2018 (17)
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29: Ouch! (8)
25: Well, i KNEW i had something worth writing… (3)
20: The Internet Is a Many-Splendored Thing… (7)
19: What Price a Decent Night’s Sleep? (6)
17: Bureaucracy as Circus (0)
16: Frugalista Frolic (8)
15: The Blood Pressure Project: Update (2)
14: Flu Fury (1)
12: Trump: What could he be thinking? (2)
11: “Retire”…or no? (0)
10: Rain and Jackhammers (0)
10: The money-making benefits of online trading or web-based trading (0)
09: U$hering: Free Live Entertainment (0)
08: Gut Instinct…or Doctor Knows Best? (10)
05: Life’s Daily Vicissitudes vs. Blood Pressure (3)
04: A Few Blessings (1)
02: One of Those High Blood-Pressure Days (8)

December 2017 (20)
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31: Burglars Need Xmas Presents, Too (2)
30: Retirement: The Cost of Living (3)
28: The Endless Dollar Drain (8)
26: Days of Our Lives, Dogs of Our Lives (2)
25: Merry Christmas! (0)
24: Merry (Confuse-a-Human) Christmas! (1)
22: Prepper Frolics: Christmas! (0)
21: Day from Hell: Part II (0)
21: Day from Hell: Halfway Point… (5)
20: The Red Tuxedo (2)
18: The Prepper’s Economic Guide to 2018 (3)
15: Nutter Season on the Roads (4)
14: The Yellow Skies of Arizona (0)
13: Lost in Space (2)
12: Gonna Be Incommunicado for Awhile (3)
11: Of Alleys and Dust and Dogs and Pools and Computers and Irons and…whatEVER (0)
08: My Un-Christian Thoughts (0)
07: Arise, Costco Customers of the World! (2)
05: Gray (Busy) Day at the Funny Farm (4)
01: Duck & Cover? (3)

November 2017 (22)
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29: Cats, Rats, Snakes, and Coyotes (0)
28: Why Consumers Are Favouring the iPhone7 over the iPhone 8 (0)
28: Ironing weirdness, Costco, and $$$$ (8)
25: Net Neutrality: Time to Act…NOW! (1)
24: News You Can Believe (More or less) (Free, mostly) (6)
23: How’s That Countertop Oven Workin’? (5)
22: Shine On, Harvest Moon… (0)
21: Some things about forgetting… (8)
20: Lazy, Hazy, Dusty Days of Autumn… (2)
18: News in the Age of Ad-blocker Blockers (6)
17: Good Cheap Coffee! (6)
16: Driving, driving, driving… (3)
15: You load 16 tons… (2)
14: The Paper Shuffle Jamboree… (8)
10: New Enterprise a-Dawning? (4)
08: Dog Dunes (2)
07: No, i do NOT know what that is (0)
07: Time Management: The Meta-List (2)
06: Groceries: Online or In Person? (11)
04: Better Living Through Chemistry? (0)
03: Makes HOAs look good… (0)
02: Yogurtified Fried Green Tomatoes (1)

October 2017 (20)
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30: Scallop Delight (2)
29: Life in the ‘Hood: This, that, and WTF? (3)
28: Side Gigs: Ride-sharing? Does your insurer know? (4)
25: Another Brave New World “Benefit” (8)
25: When Electronic Payment…Isn’t! (5)
24: Small Economies (2)
21: How DO we survive? (0)
19: Please come to Yarnell in the springtime… (0)
18: Lazy… (0)
17: Talk about Indian Summer… (2)
15: Computers: Ya love ’em… (2)
14: Charter Schools: What Could Go Wrong? (0)
13: Effin’ Brave New World… (4)
12: Car Keys in the Brave New World (2)
10: “The Economy”: A Context for Personal Finance (0)
07: Spring (re-)Sprung (2)
05: HOW do Brick & Board Stores Stay in Business??? (7)
05: A Few of the Most Popular Online Trading Methods Available Today (2)
04: An Era Ends (2)
02: Helping a Millennial Future-Proof Their Finances (0)

September 2017 (18)
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30: I Knew Better… (5)
29: Stop the World! (6)
27: Spraying (1)
25: Doggy Diagnosis (5)
24: Exeunt Ruby, Stage Left (6)
23: How to Kill a Costco? (6)
21: Convenience Cost? (5)
20: Fall Is Springing in Arizona (0)
19: The Miracles of Connectivity (5)
17: Do you ever get over… (4)
15: Re-“Roofing” (0)
13: $$$ and All: Clinging to Control (6)
11: Thank you, God… (1)
11: Equifax Damage Control (0)
08: Fun & Games with Equifax (8)
05: Trashy Trash… (14)
01: On the Crime Scene…again… (0)
01: Here’s Why I’m Paying off a 2% Car Loan… (4)

August 2017 (24)
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31: Migraine Morning (0)
29: If You Want Something Done Right… (5)
28: Livelying Up Again (1)
26: It keeps getting better… (4)
24: …they ALWAYS get in front of me… (10)
23: Back to Personal Finance: The 2018 Budget (7)
22: Trumperies in progress (6)
21: Eclipse: Low-Impact Version (7)
18: Sumer is y-goin’ out… (2)
16: Charley Update (8)
15: What’s the truth? (2)
14: Someone’s Baby Girl… (2)
13: Here’s an idea… (2)
12: Paint Job… (2)
10: Minor Annoyances of the Day (9)
09: Dog/House/Docs/Like Mother, Like Son… (6)
08: Cleaning and Dogging and Racing Around (0)
07: How much would you spend on your pet? (9)
06: Charley Crisis, Continued… (5)
06: Day 1: De-Computerizing Regime (0)
05: Breaking the Computer Addiction (3)
03: Charley Back Home (10)
01: A-n-n-d… The Dog Situation (3)
01: Why Do Old People Take So Long to Get Out of the House? (4)

July 2017 (18)
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31: Dog and Human Heading Home… (10)
30: Doggie Update (7)
29: Beside Myself… (15)
27: Another Retail Shop Bites the Dust (17)
24: A Gray Day in the Valley of the Sun (4)
23: All Indexed Out… (2)
21: Trains, the ’Hood, Safety, and All That… (13)
18: EEEK! (2)
17: Monsoon redux… (0)
16: Benign Palm Tree Neglect (1)
15: Work: The Spigot is On… (2)
11: It Mac-Moves! It Mac-Speaks! (25)
10: MacBankruptcy… (6)
08: Monsoon, Where’s Thy Sting? (0)
07: 110 in the shade (3)
06: The Endless Uphill Battle… (1)
05: Birdosaurus Rex and Bums (2)
03: Happy Fourth of July! (0)

June 2017 (19)
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30: Back to the Future (5)
28: Ya Can’t Shovel Heat! (5)
27: Never a Dull Moment… (7)
25: Mall as Dinosaur (8)
22: Digital Junk (2)
21: Red-Hot or Nailed Down… (7)
20: Warm Enough for Ya? (0)
20: The Disenchanted Apple (4)
18: The Greatest Country in the World? (9)
16: Life before the Affordable Care Act (8)
13: Technoboredom (8)
12: How Can You Improve Your Credit Score? (0)
11: Woman Over One-Celled Organism (0)
09: Wake Up America! (2)
07: Hotter than a two-dollar cookstove… (6)
06: The Algae Jamboree (2)
05: Safe! Mode, that is… (0)
02: The Great Hair Conditioner Fiasco (11)
01: i-don’t-wanna-itis…Is God Tryin’ to Tell You Something? (12)

May 2017 (24)
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31: Ratty? Is That You? (2)
30: The Most Expensive Grocery Store in Town? (2)
30: Can You Cope with Hard Times? (1)
27: Spending Frenzy! (2)
23: Death’s Door: Still Locked… (6)
22: Roadblock Man (15)
19: Shaking the Tail: Women’s Strategies for Safety (2)
17: Time to Batten Down the Hatches? (1)
16: Lazy as an old hound… (2)
15: Springtime Dog Tick Attack (4)
14: Applemania, Vindicated (2)
13: When Grocery Stores Practice to Deceive… (0)
12: How Bank Transfers Really Work (0)
12: Blasts from the Past (0)
12: How to Survive a Consumer-Driven World and a Shopping Addiction (0)
10: 13: The Lucky Number? (0)
10: Overtreatment as Usual? (4)
09: How to Destroy a Hard Drive…and Dispose of It (4)
09: Travel Insurance: Don’t go without it (2)
09: Weird weather, weird computer, weird people… (11)
05: Arizona Drivers: Batsh!t Crazy, Every One (5)
03: Mac-Cranking…Future Tense (7)
02: This is not gonna work… (0)
01: WTF? High-test cheap wine? (5)

April 2017 (28)
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30: Creepy Paws… (9)
29: STILL Blowin’ (0)
28: Pre-monsoon Monsoon? (1)
27: Getting Paid Across the Ocean (6)
26: $aved!! Thank You, Beloved Di$hwa$her (4)
25: Clash of the Cultures (7)
24: Hey, Mr. Dishwasher Repairman, Play a Song for Me… (5)
23: Peace in the War Zone(?) (4)
22: Work: Business, Yard, Dogs, House (2)
20: More Money than Taste…Adventures in Scottsdale (4)
19: For the Love of Chinese Scholars (0)
17: It Lives! (3)
17: Amazing Easter (0)
17: How to Get a Loan without a Credit Check (0)
15: Wildlife Update (1)
14: Feathers… (0)
13: How Long to Wait before Calling the Doc? (12)
12: Cats & Dogs & Diets (4)
11: The Ineffable Charm of Inertia… (3)
10: The Importance of Financial Planning Should Not Be Underestimated (0)
09: Why You Need a Call Blocker (4)
08: Frugality’s Unwritten Rules (11)
07: Kids in an Overheated Age (4)
06: General Business Frustrations (6)
05: FinCon AZ (0)
04: Paper!!! (4)
03: Stylish SPENDING! (6)
01: March showers bring April winds… (0)

March 2017 (28)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Small Serendipities (2)
29: How Much Is Your Privacy Worth? (4)
28: How to Deal with Elder Exploitation (6)
27: Update: Life, the Universe, and All That (0)
27: Update: The Disease (1)
27: Update: The Business (0)
24: The people spoke. Will they be heard? (3)
24: The Palace of Impulse Buys (6)
23: Miracle cure…or something… (0)
22: This, That, and the ‘Tother (2)
21: ahem… (3)
20: Fleurs (7)
19: {Cough…Choke…Gag…} (15)
18: There Must Be Something I Like about This Car… (2)
17: Why Do Americans Have Such a Hard Time Living within Their Means? (21)
16: Nesting and De-Nesting (1)
15: Computers, Cox, & Credit Cards: Never a Dull Moment (9)
13: Thing$ are turning up ro$e$ (0)
12: The Backwards, Upside-Down Cold (4)
11: Still Pounding on Death’s Door… (2)
10: Coming Out of the Coma? (6)
09: Lunch (7)
09: Puzzled (6)
08: Miseries (7)
07: Comin’ Up Roses Today!!! (0)
06: Jury Duty on a Cold (4)
03: Is Costco worth its new membership fee? (16)
01: Robocall Amusement (2)

February 2017 (22)
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28: You have GOT to see this! (0)
28: Glorious Rain! Again!! Jury Duty! Again!! (6)
27: Come the Apocalypse(?)… (9)
26: Sunday Comings and Goings (1)
24: Hilarity of the Day (2)
23: Low-Rent, Low-Harm Weed Killer? (1)
23: 4 Ways to Potentially Reduce Your Car Insurance Bills (0)
22: Retirement When You’re Raising Your Grandchildren (0)
21: Zapped and Whapped! (10)
18: Six Things That Have Turned Out Exceptionally Well (6)
15: 45 Minutes to Blast-Off (6)
14: Why Hiring Movers Makes Financial Sense (0)
13: Taking a Break from the First-World Problems… (1)
12: Preparing for the Trump Recession? (4)
11: Gangbusters! (0)
10: Live and Learn… (0)
08: How much of your time will you spend for a few bucks? (10)
07: So…How Would YOU Replace Obamacare? (7)
05: Pricing: Is it all in the presentation? (4)
04: Take Back America! (0)
03: Do You Tip Counter Staff? (15)
02: The 4 Best Android Apps to Track Your Investments (0)

January 2017 (26)
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31: Real Estate, Money, and Style (8)
30: Update: CRP V5000 Call Blocker (2)
30: Call Blocker: IT’S HERE! (3)
29: Enough, already! (0)
27: Brief Recovery Phase (3)
26: Blocking the Scammers (6)
25: New Plumbers…wooHOO! (0)
23: Update!! to the Monday Mumblings… (1)
23: Overworked and…over-rained. (4)
22: Rioting in the Rain, and Assorted Frolics (8)
20: Inauguration Day! (10)
19: HVAC: The Ductless Update (5)
18: Real Risk, Perceived Risk (1)
17: The NEXT Air-Conditioning System? (5)
16: Gestalt II: The Update (8)
16: Gestalt Morning… (6)
14: Emptying Out the Nest (7)
13: What to Do, Financially, to Weather the Coming Disaster? (5)
12: 5 Tips for Making your Rental Property More Profitable (0)
10: Do You Really NEED a Car? (9)
09: A Gray Day…Sky-wise and Financial-wise (6)
07: Weekend Frenzies (9)
05: Recycling: Can this maverick escape the round-up? (13)
05: Macy’s: Au Revoir… (4)
03: What??? A Budget Miracle? (1)
02: Major Project DONE! (2)

December 2016 (24)
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30: Gardening, Baking, Loafing… (6)
29: DONE with Macy’s! Why…? (12)
29: What to do now? (3)
28: Stop the World… (0)
27: Suspicions Confirmed! Work is bad for your health (3)
27: Stuff Wears Out… (7)
26: How to Reduce Facebook Ads (2)
25: Merry Christmas! (0)
23: WooHoo! The Refinan¢e Apprai$al Is IN! (5)
22: Crazy-making day… (2)
21: Car bubble? (6)
17: Happy Days? Here Again? (12)
16: How to unlock a Toyota…and other small miseries (3)
15: Ways to Save Hundreds on Your Move (0)
13: Overworked & Underpaid (0)
10: Ditz (3)
09: Didn’t b’lieve me, didja? (3)
09: And a few more rustic sights… (5)
07: A Junket to Yarnell! (2)
06: PF Notecard #5: Save Early and Often (5)
03: Cultivating the Funny Farm (7)
02: Do you need an extended auto warranty? (2)
02: You Doubt Me…? (2)
01: A Small Car Coup (12)

November 2016 (24)
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30: Playing off Costco against Amazon (4)
29: Carnnoyed… (2)
28: Speed Queen: It Just WORKS! (6)
27: Tangerine Graffiti (0)
26: For a change: NOT phishing! (7)
25: Thanksgiving Weekend…only moderately lazy (10)
23: Derailed Day (4)
22: We’re in the Money… (5)
17: Rumination: Of Appliances and Politics (19)
16: Appliance Hell/Appliance Heaven (2)
14: R.I.P. Gwen Ifill (4)
14: This & That at Day’s End (3)
14: Life in the Big City, chapter 666 (2)
13: Tax Cuts Coming? Depends on Who You Are… (12)
12: O Brave New World… (0)
11: J’ai repris mon âme (1)
10: The Donald’s First 100 Days (12)
10: Somewhere…Over the Yardarm, Way Up High… (4)
08: Time to Skip Out of the Mac Fan Club? (13)
06: Samsung Washers: Told you so! (9)
04: Planting (0)
02: Second Spring y-Cumin’ In (2)
01: How to Keep Your Business from Ruining Your Personal Finances (0)
01: Moving? Secure Your New House Well (5)

October 2016 (23)
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31: Happy Hallowe’en(?) (1)
29: Shots Fired… (1)
26: A Gorgeous New Day…for Dieting (1)
25: Microgardening? (0)
24: Why You Shouldn’t Carry a Purse… (1)
22: The Aluminum Wiring Jamboree (4)
21: New Diet/Exercise Scheme…works fast! (0)
19: The Woman Who Could Not Throw a Box Away (2)
19: The Amateur Videography Jamboree (2)
18: Gotta find a new electrician… (2)
17: Handy Online Medical Reference (8)
14: PayPal Enters the One-Born-Every-Day Market (1)
13: Saf(er) at Any Speed… (7)
13: WTF?!? Toyota BUZZES in the middle of the night? (2)
12: Things to Know About Forex Trading (0)
12: Bits & Pieces of News (2)
11: Video Day…and stuff (0)
10: Wherever You’re Going… (2)
07: Yipe? The Perp? (0)
06: Life in the Big City… (0)
04: Moving on… (6)
03: Boob Book: The Newest Bu$ine$$ Plan (5)
02: WOW! Costco Escape Yields Results! (8)

September 2016 (29)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: What Is This Car’s Name? And What Should She Wear? (7)
30: Habit (2)
29: And the New Budget Is… (8)
27: The Politically Correct Car? (3)
27: In Recovery… (1)
26: Is the Car Mine Now? (14)
25: Car and Scam Update (1)
23: Car: A short-lived love affair? (6)
23: Car as Archaeological Dig (0)
22: Buying a Car: Worse than buying a house? (8)
20: Cartastrophe (20)
20: All Loans Are Not Created Equally (4)
19: GONE FISHIN’: What, REALLY, does that object cost? (0)
18: The Least of God’s Creatures (2)
18: Important Steps to Improve your Finances (0)
17: GONE FISHIN’: Solar Stoves, Rocket Stoves, and Frugalism (0)
17: GONE FISHIN’: The Joy(?) of DIY (0)
16: Goin’ Fishin’… (9)
15: Funny’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2)
15: Breaking into blister-pack pill packages (2)
14: Where do you buy your sheets? (28)
13: Cranky as a cat (5)
11: PLEASE! Don’t “give” me your right of way! (6)
10: Yay! Choir’s Back! (0)
08: WHY does it take old people so LONG to get out of the house? (10)
07: Swimmin’ in the Rain! (3)
04: Melatonin Redux (8)
03: How to Repel Ants from a Hummingbird Feeder (2)
01: Homeless Outside Our Homes (8)

August 2016 (29)
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31: Summer is y-goin’ out (5)
30: Plumbing Blues…Everything Blues (14)
29: One of THOSE Days… (3)
28: Melatonin: Does the Stuff Actually WORK??? (14)
26: Another Friday, Another Dollar (4)
25: Angie’s List Class Action: Of Interest! (6)
24: One Di$as$ter after Another… (10)
23: Rats! More Rain!! (2)
21: This: THE most beautiful… (1)
20: Watch out for Fake Amazon Email Malware (0)
20: Busted, Disgusted, and Can’t Be Trusted… (20)
19: Never Rains but It Pours… (3)
18: A Strange Little Miracle… (3)
17: Crazy Guy Update (0)
15: Life in the Big City: ‘Bye, Costco? (8)
15: Costco Day! (10)
13: Spring II y’cumin’ in! (5)
11: Try This Yummy Soup (1)
10: New Book: Major Progress! (1)
08: Adapting to Healthy Living on a Budget (0)
08: Counter Oven Update (1)
05: Countertop Oven as Fire Hazard? (7)
05: Of Rain, Work, and Chores (6)
04: Presto-Digito! NEW KITCHEN CABINETS (9)
04: Worthy of Note: CFPB (2)
03: The Mailbox Thief Jamboree (1)
02: Live-Blogging from the Lake (0)
02: Ant Détente (0)
01: Budget and a Book (0)

July 2016 (35)
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31: The Republican Horror Show (15)
29: Of Weather, Dogs, Budgets, Stir-Craziness, and Taxes (17)
28: New Book a-Bornin’ (4)
28: THIS IS IT! The LAST DAY!!! (0)
27: Budget Grump (3)
26: “Presidential”? It gets better and better… (1)
25: The Next Big Project: A New Writing Book (0)
25: Discord, indeed… (2)
24: Living Life in a Hot New World (8)
23: Beautiful Toes! How to beat back toenail fungus (2)
23: DUCK! New Incoming Cockamamie Idea! (1)
22: Amazon Update (3)
21: Day’s end…at last…almost (4)
21: The (not-so-much!) Joys of Amazon (4)
20: Spots of Light, Patches of Fog (4)
19: Don’t wanna work Tuesday meets the Green Thumb Lady (1)
18: Don’t wanna work Monday (3)
17: Exploring the Amazon (0)
16: Scams for Writers (0)
15: Thank You, Costco and Citigroup! (11)
15: Existential Questions on the Quantum Level (7)
14: Special Count-down Coming Up! (0)
13: Budget Mini-Update (15)
12: House, Yard, and (Book) Marketing (1)
11: BoB & BoB (7)
10: Money Happens! (2)
08: Art: A New Venture (0)
08: Pay Off a Mortgage or Invest the Money Instead? (10)
07: Seven Creative Ways to Get Out of Debt (0)
05: Managing Your Money: Check Out This App! (0)
05: ONLY in Arizona! (0)
04: Happy Fourth of July! (0)
03: The Food Blast: What to Do with It (2)
02: Food FRENZY! (7)
01: Retirement Planning for Gen X (3)

June 2016 (24)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: New Book! Frugality for Depressives (0)
29: The BUDGET: First step (5)
29: Salon, Brexit, and the Sad State of Journalism (0)
28: Why Your Insurer Asks about Your Dog… (6)
26: What IS your freezer trying to say to you? (6)
25: Re-budgeting (6)
24: Brexit Repercussions (3)
23: Brexit… (7)
23: Citigroup Charges Costco Bill on Inactive Visa Card! (11)
20: 24-Hour Siesta Time (1)
19: Hotter than a $2 cookstove? Not quite… (2)
18: Caveat Emptor: Amazon as Consumer’s Pal (10)
17: The Cheapskate Jamboree: How much is a man’s life worth? (2)
14: Orlando: What to think? (3)
11: Hotter than the Hubs of Hades… (4)
11: Signs of the Times (4)
09: Want…it…must…have…it… (9)
08: R.I.P. Alternator… (8)
07: Wannabe Customer to USPS: Phbtthhphtbbb! (6)
07: Shots and thangs… (2)
06: Who Tells Pollsters the Truth? (5)
05: Connie on the Road: Travels with an Escape Artist (0)
03: Oops! Sorry about the weird widget…but check out this site!` (1)
02: Both Sides…of the Cloud? (6)

May 2016 (19)
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31: News of the Day (5)
28: On the Road with Connie: Westward Bound from Albuquerque (0)
28: Coming Up for Air (2)
27: On Pots and Things (0)
25: When Christian Science Starts to Look Good… (6)
24: If I won the lottery… (2)
22: Maybe a Brief Break? (1)
21: Life in these United States… (4)
20: Slogging Along… (6)
18: How to Freak Out a Dog (0)
16: Walmart & Work & Paletas (0)
13: All Done In… (4)
12: Idle Essays Department…on the ubiquity of scams (3)
10: PF Notecard # 4: Get Out of Debt! (4)
07: How Failure Can Turn to Success (8)
04: Want to Hear Some Real Journalists in Action? (2)
04: How You Can Grow When You Stop Dreading Payroll (0)
03: Inflation (10)
02: Cell Phones: Oughta be a law? (4)

April 2016 (26)
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30: Partying on the Way to Wellness (0)
29: So totally do not want to work… (5)
29: PF Notecard #3: Live Below Your Means (2)
28: Abby Did It! (1)
27: Connie on the Road: Flying Low across the Country (2)
26: New Adventure Squib at Plain & Simple Press (0)
26: PF Notecard #2: Get a Job (0)
25: Life in the Editing Biz (2)
25: Connie on the Road: Eastward Bound (2)
23: Techno-Skeptic: What’s wrong with e-books & e-tunes (3)
22: Cox Wheedled Down; Phone Solicitors Walloped (3)
22: Connie on the Road: Along the Border (0)
20: Bye-Bye, Bums? (5)
20: PF Notecard #1: Get an Education (1)
19: What Happened to Consumer Reports? (7)
16: On the Road with Connie (6)
15: PF Blogging: All Our Advice on a Notecard? (1)
14: Knocking Off…or Not (0)
13: Unwinding(?) with the daily news… (6)
11: Business Is Looking Up (7)
09: NIMBY, Indeed…or any anyone’s -BY (6)
07: Permutations of NIMBY (8)
07: Stupid Story of the Day (2)
06: R.I.P. Merle (0)
03: Falling Behind in Life (4)
02: MacShafted (1)

March 2016 (23)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Tempus Fidgets (3)
30: Got a Kid Going to College? Read This (6)
29: Gender Pay Gaps: A$k and ye shall re¢eive? (5)
27: Happy Easter! And may you, too, beat GERD (8)
25: What? No Terrorized Students at Emory? (5)
24: VOTE! Monty Python Show or Kurt Vonnegut Novel? (4)
23: Thank You, Amazon Reviewers! $$$$$ (4)
22: 204% Interest? Only in Arizona… (4)
19: Giveaway of the Week! (1)
19: The Carnival Comes to Town (4)
18: Work, non diminuendo (0)
16: Work, Interruptus (5)
14: Check Up on Your Financial Adviser (2)
11: PLEASE Keep Your Cat Indoors! (25)
09: New Heights of Stupidity! (2)
08: Considering Grad School? 8 Things to Think About (0)
07: Morning in America! Who knew? (5)
06: The Ducks of Spring (0)
06: Dollars and Ducks (2)
04: Friday Frolics (0)
03: How the Brits See US Politics… (0)
02: Thank You, El Niño! (5)
01: Running in Place (1)

February 2016 (14)
Detailed Monthly Archive

26: Primary Ballot: GAAAAAHHHHHH! (11)
26: Share Your Cat Story! Help Build a Book (2)
24: Managing Retirement: Declutter EARLY (10)
20: Propane & the Fire Department (6)
18: Disconnecting: A Good Thing? (14)
15: A Little Luck, A Little Smart$ (4)
13: Computer Kudzu (2)
13: Bargain Find at Williams-Sonoma! (5)
12: What IS this dog watching? (2)
11: Duck-Duck: Is she back?? (2)
10: Classy New Drive Installed (8)
08: Burning Down the House, or How to Cook Bacon (4)
07: Goodreads: The Last Social-Media Straw (8)
03: What Have I (not) Done? (2)

January 2016 (15)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Books, Books, and MORE Books (5)
25: Let’s Test an Amazon Feature! (2)
24: Medicare: Watch Your Back (10)
22: The Mailbox Annals: Four Hundred Dollars Later… (2)
19: Loafing at the Publishing House… (0)
17: Obnoxious Facebook… (0)
15: Spinning Wheels in the Publishing Business (2)
13: Don’t Throw Out that Scratched-up Knife: Polish It! (0)
12: Strange Day in FunnyFarmville (1)
12: Ever wonder if you’ve blown a fuse? (1)
11: Back up your data…back up back up back up! (3)
06: Obama Beefs Up Gun Laws… Your Thoughts? (3)
03: Banging on Death’s Door at Crime Central (0)
02: Fighting the Joys of the Golden Years (0)
01: Google, GET YOUR NOSE OUT OF MY BUTT!!!!! (0)

December 2015 (18)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Round-up: Too sick to dream up a title edition (0)
30: Make Some Crackers (0)
29: Downsizing: Is It Worth the Cost? (0)
28: Cookbooks Sell? (0)
28: Breaking Newsoid…Live-Blogging from the scene (0)
26: Mailbox Frolics, Continued… (0)
25: Roomie Heads West (0)
23: MacSpamFighting: ONE mistake… (0)
22: Cookbook’s at Amazon; Print Version on the Way! (0)
20: What’s Your Favorite News Source? (0)
16: wooHOO! Cookbook on Its Way! (5)
16: Minutes and minutes left… (0)
15: It’s a Heat Pump Thing… (8)
13: Doing Less but Accomplishing More (1)
09: Is Costco “Amazon-proof”? (6)
07: Most Expensive US Postal Service in the Country… (7)
06: Sales! (5)
01: Slow down, you’re movin’ too fast… (4)

November 2015 (20)
Detailed Monthly Archive

29: Baaad Human! Bad BUDGET-BUSTING Human! (8)
27: A Night of Mares… (1)
25: A Thanksgiving Series! Just in Time… (0)
24: Every Phisherman Needs an Editor! (2)
24: Why Do I Dislike Social Networks? Am I a Curmudgeon? (1)
23: Gentrification on Steroids? (4)
22: Fourth Sunday… (6)
21: Bobbi & the Biker Sequel: They’re b-a-a-a-c-k! (0)
20: Overwork: A little tireder than I thought… (6)
19: Life in the (Tedious…) (Drug-Ridden) Big City (8)
16: Family: Closing in on Thanksgiving… (2)
15: Are Entrepreneurs Allowed a Day of Rest? Is Anyone? (4)
13: wooHOO! Another Roberta Stuart Story Goes Live (0)
12: So How Are We Doing in the Erotica Biz? (2)
08: Sunday at the Park (4)
06: w00t! Latest “Family” book is live! (0)
04: The Curative Power of Doctor’s Appointments… (0)
03: Whole Foods Underprices Safeway (9)
02: w00t! Out with Costco, Out with the Big Amex Bill! (6)
01: Halloween Hoot! (2)

October 2015 (18)
Detailed Monthly Archive

29: Publishing: Proceeding Apace. Decluttering: Ditto. (14)
27: Decluttering: A shovel-it-out moment (1)
26: Reality or Illusion? The Growing Complication of Life (7)
24: w00t! Mikey Likes Us x 5 Stars (0)
24: w00t!! Our First COLLECTION Is Out! (0)
20: New Book Online! And modicum of sanity returns (0)
19: One of Those Days…. (1)
17: Quickbooks: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! (0)
16: Yeah, I was right… (2)
15: The Flatware Safari (5)
14: Of Books, Business, and Dishwashers (4)
10: Digital Aversion (3)
08: Annuities? (7)
05: INSIGHT: Marketing (4)
05: Overworked and Underpaid… (0)
04: Why a “connected” home is a bad idea (8)
03: It’s HERE! (0)
02: Today’s the Day! (3)

September 2015 (24)
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28: Beautiful mornings, hot days, hot stuff comin’ up (0)
24: Woo HOO! Celebrate Great Fire-Rider Reviews with PRICE CUT! (0)
23: Social Media U (1)
22: Beateous Evening (0)
22: The Incredible Handiness of a Spare Driver’s License… (1)
21: 5 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.: The 16-hour workday (0)
20: Selling the Older House (16)
19: Marketing: Maybe it’s working (0)
18: OMG! I just got my life back! (6)
17: Calling on the Muse…and all that (0)
16: All I wanna do is WRITE! (0)
14: Multi-Tasking on Steroids (2)
13: Celestial Marvel (0)
11: When Editors Have Fun: Hilarious faux pas… (0)
09: Gotta Get My Life Back… (0)
07: Once an Academic… (0)
06: Sunday…It’s almost acted like a Sunday (0)
05: w00t! Get a FREE Fire-Rider Book! (8)
05: The Girls Have a Twitter Presence! (0)
03: Another Fine Day in Social Media Marketing (1)
02: Marketing Away…time to take a break (2)
01: A Little Freshet Blows through Phoenix (4)
01: Another Day, Another Bookoid! (0)
01: Exeunt the New York Times, Pursued by a Bear (8)

August 2015 (23)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Foiled by the Effing Cell Phone! (17)
30: Weird Weather / Weird Electrical Event (0)
29: Enterprise: One Long Shot after Another… (4)
28: Fire-Rider: Another Day, Another Book… (1)
23: Of erotica and budgets… (4)
23: Fire-Rider Book 7: You Live & Learn (2)
22: Almost Too Good for Words (0)
21: DCIS: The latest news (2)
20: Can You Spot Good Husband Material? (0)
17: Taking a Brief Break… (5)
16: How am I whipped? Let me count the ways… (8)
14: What 117 in the shade looks like (4)
13: The Enterprise: Things Are Looking Up (0)
11: Tales of Micropublishing (0)
10: Fleas?????? Is there ever a break from the timesuck? (2)
09: Possible down time (0)
08: Of Artichokes and Oysters…and New Books (2)
07: Hullo? (21)
05: Book II of FireRider is published (0)
04: Time Suck: You CAN’T avoid it! (0)
03: Time-Suck Control: Update (0)
02: The Writer’s Dinner (3)
01: Fire-Rider! The labor produces (2)

July 2015 (17)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Time Suck Control (4)
30: WHEN am I supposed to get any writing done? (3)
28: Dumb Tax and Learning Experiences (0)
22: Enterprise Progress, Costco Progress (5)
21: So much for creative work… (1)
20: The Enterprise: Progress Made toward Business Goals (0)
19: Stuff Done, Stuff in Progress (2)
17: Gotta Take a Break (2)
16: Bookkeeping Blues (0)
15: Ay-MAZING Costco Tale (11)
14: work work work work work work work work work wor… (2)
12: Start-up Risk: What Will the New Enterprise Cost? (6)
10: Week, Interrupted (Endlessly…) (2)
07: Blog Blues, Doc Blues (6)
06: Getting Back on Track (0)
04: Happy Fourth of July! And…next? (7)
02: Back again…for the nonce, & with an addition (0)

June 2015 (25)
Detailed Monthly Archive

29: It Lives! (13)
28: Still Living; Still Trapped (2)
27: Waylaid! (8)
25: Done Duck (1)
24: Economics of Changing Horses in Mid-Stream (5)
23: Repelling Cats: The Practical Benefits (3)
22: No Ducklings in Sight… (0)
20: At Last: A little traction! (2)
18: But it’s a dry heat… (9)
17: How Much Would One Have to Earn to Prosper in the Raunch Bidness? (6)
16: House Repair the First (3)
15: How Did We Miss This Guy? (0)
15: Median U.S. Net Worth: I’m Shocked! (5)
13: That Cat Has GOT to Go… (11)
12: w00t! A Whole Day Pulled Out of the Hat! (0)
11: One of Those ARRRRGGGH!@#$%^ Days (9)
10: Grrrrr! (0)
08: Profit & Loss in the Micropublishing Biz (0)
05: Big Brother: Not about to quit watching us (0)
04: Lost Mockingbird Chick (5)
04: Does Breast Surgery for DCIS Save Lives? (4)
02: Rumination of the Day: Publishing Software Review (0)
01: Spider Gems (0)
01: Cat Wars: Reinforcing the Battlements (5)
01: Ant Wars: The Battle of the Garage (2)

May 2015 (18)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Fix-up Mini-Frenzy (4)
29: Skateboarding through Impulse-Buy Hell toward Financial Armageddon (3)
27: Another Day, Another Dollar (0)
26: Unstuck in Time? (0)
24: DUCK-Duck saves Day from Hell (almost) (3)
23: Spending Frenzy!! (1)
20: The New Writing Empire: Promising! (3)
19: DUCK begins modeling career (3)
18: Amazon Sales: Is there gold in them thar hills? (10)
15: Car? (10)
14: DUCK! (14)
14: Professor’s Recurring Nightmare(s) (1)
13: Handyman Pays for Himself…and Doesn’t Even Charge!! (4)
11: Smart Debt: Is there such a thing? (20)
07: Today’s Maunderings (1)
06: Woo Hoo! Boob Book Stage 1: About DONE! (4)
05: This, That, and the ‘Tother… (2)
01: How Old Does a Computer Think You Are? (3)

April 2015 (23)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Fighting Breast Cancer: Put Your Money Where It Matters Most (3)
28: Scallops…Gluten-Free! (0)
27: Wanna Lose the Weight? Hold the Salt (6)
25: A Shop Vac Is a Girl’s Best Friend! (0)
24: America’s Standard of Living: Are We Moving Forward? (5)
23: Comments are back…i think (6)
22: Is Costco Shopping an Addiction? (3)
21: Life in the 21st Century (3)
20: Ars Bloggiendi (5)
19: Mobilizing… (4)
17: Spring Doldrums? (4)
15: Salad Porn (4)
14: Day from Hell After$shock: The Water Heater Bill (8)
13: What Do Surveys Survey? (4)
12: Day from Hell Peters Out in the Wee Hours… (5)
11: a-a-a-a-a-n-d…Just to Put the Frosting on the Cake… (7)
11: Duck! Bees! (3)
10: Communication Complication (0)
09: Simplifying My Financial Life: THANK YOU Costco! (3)
08: Current Events and the State of One’s Sanity (12)
06: Stupid Animal Stories… (10)
03: How to Get Sand Out of a Top-Loading HE Washer (7)
02: Buy “His,” Not “Her$” (0)

March 2015 (16)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Not-a-Cancer: Updated Update (6)
28: Time to Move Along? (11)
26: Prerogatives of the Self-Employed (3)
24: The Costco/AMEX Strategy: It WORKED! (6)
23: Monday Morning Mountain Walk (5)
20: Amazing Little Dog (1)
17: Kicking Off the Boob Book (1)
16: A Nice Little DIY Personal Finance Guide (0)
14: The Self-Appointed HOA (8)
13: Wanna Write Your Own Blog? Or Get More Readers? (1)
12: The Eyeglass Artist (4)
10: Stupid Retail Management: Why Amazon Is Taking Over the World (11)
09: Knitting…Mme LaFarge Redux? (4)
05: Post of the Day (4)
04: Can Savings Replace Pensions? (10)
02: Would I Have Done This? Would You? (19)

February 2015 (15)
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28: Spock, Say It Ain’t. . .Logical! (6)
26: NMP: Not My Problem! (4)
25: Cost(co)-Cutting as a Budgetary Strategy (3)
22: Back on Budget at Last! But…at what cost? (2)
20: Tang Me! Tang Me! Yuh oughta take a rope an’… (9)
17: Wait, wait…before you read that last post! (0)
16: The Great Closet Winnowing (3)
15: Sunday Morning: A moment of quiet (0)
12: Existential Angst, Depression, or Just Plain Boredom? (17)
10: Dumb Tax!! And some creative panhandling… (6)
09: Would You Stop Your Car for This? (3)
07: DON’T WANNA WORK…or much of anything else… (2)
05: Budget Redux (13)
02: How to Wash Clothes in a Samsung Washer (8)
01: Foggy Fantasy (2)

January 2015 (23)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Super Bowl Solitary Confinement (5)
30: Sun Dogs…and Move Over, Dolly! (5)
28: Surprisingly Amazingly Good to Eat Kale (6)
27: Siri, Drive Me to Independence, Please (6)
26: Back to Normal…more or less (1)
25: Lazied Out??? (2)
24: A Thousand Curses on “Energy-Efficient” Appliances (17)
23: How to Save Money: Get Sick! (8)
20: $ub$idizing the Kid’$ Birthday Party…Oh, this is too, too good! (11)
19: Finances: 2014 Debacle; 2015 Budget (4)
18: What Do You Grab When the House Is on Fire? (9)
16: Get Up! Get Back to Work!!!!! (3)
14: So…What’s Next? (16)
14: Why Didn’t Anybody Tell Me… (0)
13: wooHOO! FREE AT LAST! (1)
11: First Fashion Statement! (4)
10: Next on the Agenda… (13)
09: Giving Oneself Little Gifts (4)
08: Great News! (13)
07: It LIVES…after a fashion (12)
05: Waiting for Godot…or something like that… (10)
03: Catch-up: Can you do nine months of yardwork in one afternoon? (4)
01: New Year’s Closet Cleanup! (6)

December 2014 (21)
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31: Happy New Year! (2)
30: The Pre-Prep Room Prep Jamboree (6)
28: When Life Hands You Lemons…Turn Them into Easter Eggs! (4)
27: Car Shopping (14)
26: A Modern Massacre of the Innocents (0)
24: Merry Christmas! (0)
23: “Why Am I in the English Department?” (9)
20: Zombified…but Yogafied! (1)
19: Half the day scrubbed…the rest on the way out (1)
18: Wha…?? ONE piece of cake = 1.2 pounds??????? (2)
17: What IS so all-important, really? (5)
16: First-World Problems… (11)
14: Terminal senility…or drug-induced brain fuzz? (9)
12: And Another Semester Fades Away… (3)
10: Chamber Choir: WOW! (3)
09: They were the best of students, they were the worst of students… (0)
08: Like a Rocket…. (0)
04: wooHOO! What a Relief. {And an unexpected hoot!} (1)
04: Here we go again… (3)
03: Dollar$ and ¢ents, 2014 (8)
01: Thanksgiving Aftermath (6)

November 2014 (18)
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29: Had It… (8)
28: Black Friday Craziness Casts Gray Pall on Thanksgiving (2)
26: Whatcha Doin’ for Thanksgiving? (9)
24: Another Day in Dystopia (9)
22: Boob Update: Back, Forth, and Back Again (2)
20: Consumer-proof Packaging: What’s in YOUR Kitchen Drawer? (20)
18: Neighborhood Patrol? Really? (0)
17: Boob: To Be (attached) or Not to Be (attached) (11)
15: Creamless Creamed Spinach (7)
14: Decision Taken — At Last! (4)
13: Like a Flash! (0)
12: Phone Solicitor Discouragement: The Long-Winded Voicemail Message (0)
09: Slave Labor: My First Kindle Book! (12)
07: Why i hated teaching…and why the whole credit thing is ridiculous (17)
06: Time for Some Self-Di$¢ipline (14)
05: The Cool Thing about To-Do Lists… (1)
04: This, That, and the Other… (10)
03: A Discovery(!) and an Insight(?) (6)

October 2014 (23)
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31: “Not a Cancer” Update (6)
30: Terminally Lazy? (5)
29: w00t! Medicare to the Rescue! (3)
28: House Paint: Is Eye-Searing White the New HOA Beige? (3)
27: Surprise Surgery! (16)
24: Wine: In Search of Lower Alcohol Content (6)
23: High Inefficiency: Washers and Rx Plans! (11)
22: The Problem with Writing Reminders to Yourself… (5)
21: Pays to Shop Around… (5)
20: Another Day, Another Doctor… (13)
17: Dog Food: Make It or Buy It? (12)
15: Annals of the Floored and Flabbergasted: Back Office Staff Edition (13)
15: Breast “Cancer” or Not: Another Amazing Adventure in Medical Never-Never Land (9)
14: Fry’s Kroger’s (6)
13: Voting in the Dark (13)
13: The Tools of a Successful Trader (1)
10: You Know You Should Stay Out of Costco When… (17)
10: Bright Idea: Kick-start your way past writer’s block (0)
08: Readings (2)
07: A Historic Moment in Gasoline Pricing? (16)
06: Back to Normal… (2)
03: Of Late… (11)
01: Craft Popcorn to Go with That Craft Beer? (11)

September 2014 (25)
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29: Annals of the Floors and Flabbergasted: Padded Cell Edition (5)
28: Not in Kansas Anymore? (2)
27: Whacked! (0)
26: Hired Help (4)
25: One. More. Try…. (11)
24: Grateful (not) Postscript (10)
23: Resuscitating My Life: Überlist 2 (13)
22: Resuscitating My Life: A Pair of Überlists (2)
21: Gratitude(?) (11)
20: Damn, I’m Good! (1)
19: Car to Chuck’s: Pray for a LONG Life (11)
18: So, Where Were We? (6)
17: Rain? (2)
16: News of the Day (0)
15: UPDATE to the Latest Chapter (4)
15: Unnumbered Chapter from the Never-Ending Story (8)
14: Angels Are Singing (11)
12: Dispatches from Hell: Update (13)
11: The Show Goes On and ON!!! (5)
09: How Much Does a Politician Cost? (6)
08: Damp! (5)
07: Beautiful Choir Day…a Temporary Respite (6)
05: Tiny Rays of Sunshine (2)
04: The Show Goes On… (8)
02: $tunned (11)

August 2014 (23)
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30: A Voice of Reason (16)
28: Lies and Prevarication (6)
27: Never Rains but It Pours… (8)
26: Bizarre Day on Wisteria Lane… (17)
24: $4333 an Hour?? (10)
22: The Worst Threat the World Has Seen Since WW II (13)
21: Stuff Not Done, Booze, and Wasted Days (5)
20: How to Get Dog Pee Stink off Your Tile Floors, and Other Puppy Ventures (17)
19: Rain! Actual RAIN! (15)
18: And WHERE do the days go? (12)
16: OMG! Small pleasures, large pleasures (0)
16: New Website! (0)
15: Stuff You Can’t Get Anymore (13)
14: How to Annoy a Puppy… (3)
13: Can’t Win for Losin’… (10)
12: A Neighborhood of Eccentrics (2)
11: Time to Get Back to Work… (4)
09: Plunder! (2)
07: Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive! It’s ALIVE! (20)
06: Slouching toward Bethlehem… (9)
05: About Those Comments… (4)
03: Coping (3)
01: OMG! Call 911! It’s…it’s FB! He’s not breathing!!! (1)

July 2014 (21)
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31: The Fox Is in the Henhouse! (0)
30: Of Dancing Dogs, Kitchen Counters, Cheap Expensive Hardware, and Morning Interrupted (0)
29: Dollars Got Wings… (0)
28: How Much Does Home-Made Dog Food Cost… (2)
27: Some People’s Kids (0)
27: Rain! At LAST! (3)
25: What Would You Do to Realize Your Dream? (6)
23: Good News for the Neighborhood (3)
22: Beautiful Rosaries! (6)
20: How to Foil Child-proof Caps (9)
18: A Funny Little Find… (4)
18: Taking Care of Business…or Getting Rid of It? (6)
17: She’s B-a-a-a-a-c-k! (1)
15: Spayday (7)
13: Weird Weather… (2)
11: What’s Wrong with These Pictures? (5)
10: Lazy Woman’s Blog Post of the Day (7)
08: If You’d Asked Me, I Would Have Told You… (13)
07: Some Vacation… (1)
02: Preparations… (6)
01: Ruby-Doo Ascendant (4)

June 2014 (19)
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29: Cultiver notre jardin… (0)
27: Cancer? Not so much… (15)
25: News of the Day… (22)
24: Somethin’s gotta go… (2)
23: Day from Hell? Or Day from Monty Python’s Flying Circus? (8)
21: A New Day…from Hell (5)
20: Made It through the First Trial-&-Trib (13)
19: Flying into the Cloud Bank (7)
17: w00t! Check Out Funny’s Post at the Adjunct Project (1)
16: The Delicious Illusion of Being in Control (8)
15: Cheap, USABLE cell phone scored!!! (9)
12: Another Day, Another $250 Hit… And more to come? (3)
10: Question Authority! Navigating the Medical Industry (4)
09: Doggy Tunes! (0)
06: Oh Goodie! Another Cancer Scare… (20)
05: A Quarter of the Semester Already GONE! (2)
03: Farming Out the Chores: Opportunity Cost Recovered! (2)
03: The Incredible Lightness of Costco… (9)
02: Bye-Bye, BlueHost… (6)

May 2014 (22)
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31: Technical Problems… (0)
30: Bigfoot: The Year of the Unplanned Expense (12)
29: run run run run run! (4)
28: Round and About (5)
26: The Art of Daily Living: Frugal New Shorts (1)
23: Ga$p! House Drama, Dog Drama (6)
22: Drama of the Day (0)
22: A Long Dive off the Deep End? (8)
20: Life-Careifying My Home (8)
19: I don’ wanna work Monday (0)
16: A New Salvo in the Stress Wars… (3)
16: Lovin’ Cats… (3)
15: Be Careful What You Wish For! (9)
14: Changing Climate, Changing Property Values? (8)
12: Entrepreneurship, Work, Dogs, Life, the Universe, and All That… (2)
12: Uh-oh… Is Rand Paul a Body-Snatcher? (0)
12: My apologies for the down time (0)
09: Annals of the Floored and Flabbergasted: Gun owners should have to pass an IQ test… (13)
06: Lists as…Transcendental Meditation? Last Grip on Sanity? Other? (0)
05: New Model Shark Floor Steam-cleaner: FAIL! (6)
03: Is Adjunct Teaching Akin to Slave Labor? (0)
02: The Gruesome Execution Jive: Am I altogether too savage? (22)

April 2014 (19)
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29: What If Ruby Doesn’t Make It? (10)
29: BROKE by a Thousand Cuts (3)
27: A Close Call (12)
26: Stormy Day, Puppy Day (0)
25: Organizing the Time and the Junk (0)
23: The Wages of Messiness (8)
22: Prescription Pills: Proceed with Caution (8)
21: Monday, Monday (1)
19: Happy Easter Egg! (4)
16: First Experiment in Self-Publishing! (3)
16: Check Out Funny’s New Blog (2)
14: How Mu¢h I$ That Puppy… (6)
13: Progress Made: Business; Progress Made: Personal (2)
11: Endless Thrashings-About (2)
08: Can’t Complain…I Suppose… (7)
07: 99 Questions (7)
04: McCutcheon: Funny Takes Out a Loan (0)
02: KJG’s Irises! (3)
01: Employer Beware: Here come our students! (8)

March 2014 (22)
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31: Hoarding, Divesting, and the Frugal Impulse (12)
26: Beyond Cute! (1)
25: Huge Rip-off Narrowly Averted (17)
24: New Enterprise a-Bornin’ (6)
23: Bloggin’ Luv (6)
22: Thank You, Sir (3)
21: The Joys of Living in the Low-Rent District (14)
20: Puppy Cuteness (1)
19: OMG! And w00t! Great News… (2)
19: Creative Work: Good for Your Health? (2)
18: Springtime, the Only Pretty Ringtime… (3)
17: Money Expands to Fill All Available Space (8)
13: Safeway = Albertson’s? (15)
11: He Who Does Battle with a Cat… (3)
10: Corgi: 40; German Shepherd: 30; Human: Love (6)
09: The Princess Has Arrived! (4)
08: And the Winner Is… (2)
07: LAST CHANCE for Name-the-Pup Giveaway! (0)
05: Change of Banking Institution…ABORT! ABORT! (11)
04: The Sky Is Blue Again… (4)
03: On the Road (0)
02: NINE HUNDRED DOLLARS for a 20-minute visit???? (4)

February 2014 (20)
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27: PUPPY NAMING GIVE-AWAY: The 4-Month Diet Cookbook! (42)
26: Teva Teva Teva Teeeeevas!!! (7)
25: Blog Carnivals: A thing of the past? (7)
25: Tales from the Crypt…uhm…the ’Hood (2)
24: KISS: Simplifying the Budget Unearths a LOT of Money! (uhh…sorta) (14)
23: Corgi Cute-ification (4)
21: Self-employment Mantra: Paying Work First; then Playing Work (6)
20: Another Day, Another Dollar…someday. Maybe. (8)
19: Lordie! (1)
18: Uh-oh… (10)
17: Creative Angst (8)
14: Time Management: Where DOES the Time Go, Anyway? (2)
13: Please. Unnerve Me Some More! (6)
12: Puppy! (4)
11: The Third-Worldization of America: Proceeding Apace (5)
08: Obamacare Side Effect: Fewer Jobs? Or More Employers? (1)
06: Gluten-free, Meat-free, INCREDIBLY Delicious! (5)
04: Read. The. Statements! (3)
03: Loafing (0)
01: Staying on Top of Things (1)

January 2014 (22)
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31: Work, Community Service, Argh! (3)
29: Why Is It So Much Cheaper to Be Skinny? (2)
28: A Budget for Retirement: Annual, not Monthly? (6)
28: Moment of Fame (0)
26: The High Cost of Changing Your Life (22)
24: Spring is Sproinging in Phoenix (11)
23: Eyeglass Hit (11)
22: $$ Flying Out the Window (and back in…) (5)
21: Tamale Puppies! (0)
17: Another Bullet Dodged…Maybe? (15)
16: Cat Wars! The Battle of the Ramparts (13)
14: The State of Your Health: Is It Your Employer’s Business? (10)
13: An Unsustainable Business Model? Adsense, Stalking Marketers, Facebook, and all that (8)
11: Pup Is BORN! (14)
11: A Good Reason to Keep Emergency Water & Propane on Hand (2)
09: Puppy-wuppies! (2)
08: Tree Barbering (1)
07: When It Rains… (5)
06: Eine Kleine Stress Reduction Trick… (6)
04: If It Looks Negotiable… (2)
03: Back from “Vacation”…with a New Book (13)
02: A Phone Call to Daddy (4)

December 2013 (22)
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31: QUESTION. AUTHORITY. (5)
31: A New Year’s Eve Tale: Penny and the Poltergeist (2)
30: Best of Funny: Annals of the Floored and Flabbergasted (1)
27: Best of Funny: Lists (0)
26: Best of Funny: Common Sense (0)
24: Best of Funny: Pets (0)
23: Music for the Season (0)
20: Cash vs. Credit Redux…already! (9)
20: Best of Funny: Idle Essays (0)
19: Making Cash Look Better and Better (13)
18: Best of Funny: A Laugh a Minute (0)
17: Best of Funny: Epic Rants (2)
16: Good Ole Boys (0)
13: We Interrupt This Pap for… (10)
13: Best of Funny: Economy (2)
12: Best of Funny: Household Hints (3)
10: Best of Funny: Stress Control (1)
09: Music Soothes the Savage Beast (4)
07: Credit Bureau Security Freeze: The (Mostly) Pros and (Few) Cons (3)
05: Identity Theft Aftermath…arggghhhhh! (16)
04: Cat Wars: Fortification of the Castle (4)
02: Mass-Produced Identity Theft (12)

November 2013 (25)
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30: Day Care, Mom’s Vacation, and the Incredible Lightness of America’s Child Rearing Theories (14)
29: The Latest Invention: Frost Tent! (1)
27: Another Close Doggy Call (4)
27: Happy Thanksgiving! (4)
26: Farmer’s Marketing and Good Eating (4)
25: Is It Time to Close Down the Post Office? (11)
24: Gunfire in the Night: Bali Hai Is Calling (3)
22: A Much-belated, Rainy-day Roundup (7)
21: Cleaning, Throwing Out, Moving Around… (13)
20: Tomato Soup with Wonderful Low-Salt Product (7)
19: woot! Incredible Estate Sale Coup (1)
18: Got Parents? Keep an Eye on Them! (5)
15: I. JUST. HATE. THIS. STUFF! (4)
14: What Happens When You Don’t Keep Up with the Incoming Paperwork at the Funny Farm (7)
13: How to Make Your Own Yogurt (26)
12: Hair Conditioner as…Bathroom Cleaner??? (7)
11: Loafifarious Morning (3)
09: Dishwasher Purchase, Chapter 2 🙂 (4)
09: Dishwasher Scored, Zillions of Bucks Fly out the Door (5)
08: Researching the Next Dishwasher Purchase (12)
07: Dishwasher Redux (7)
06: w00t! New Car SCORED! (10)
04: Hey! Bosch Has Got REAL Service Reps! (5)
02: Discounted Appliances: Nifty Little Side Gig! (3)
01: Chase, UPS, and Credit Card Application Fraud (2)

October 2013 (19)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Annals of Fraud: Can You Steal a Corporation’s Identity? (5)
29: “Follow Your Bliss”…REALLY? (13)
28: Is a Business Lunch with a Friend Deductible? (4)
24: ha-HAAA! Bank Account Simpification Accomplished! (15)
23: Yet Another Reason to Feed Your Dog Real Food (8)
21: Second Thoughts: The Benefits (uhm, I think…) of Waiting before Buying (6)
18: 122 Unread Messages… (21)
16: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Stealing for Food (7)
14: Car Shopping (22)
11: New Corgi Puppy: The Word Is OUT! (2)
10: 12 Things I Would’ve Thought I’d Never Live to See (1)
09: Does a $1200 Purse Make You Upper-Class? (4)
07: Sun City Poverty: Gettin’ Old and Gettin’ Poor (6)
06: Brag!!! (4)
04: Ringiquette (7)
03: Blast from the Grocery Past! (4)
02: Is the Republican Party Bad for Business? (13)
02: Fast One from Apple (2)
01: What’s Your Least-Favorite Financial Task? (11)

September 2013 (21)
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30: De-Greyhounded… (0)
27: Why? (5)
26: Service Dog…or Service Scam? Should You Have to Prove You’re Disabled? (5)
24: Dogs That Bite (15)
24: Is Sugar Toxic? (6)
23: Hounds! (7)
23: Brand-New Whole Foods…Meh? (1)
21: Shifting the Credit-Card Cycle: An Unexpected Outcome (7)
20: Stupid People (13)
17: HOOT! I can’t believe this… (9)
16: The Queen of the Universe vs. the Queen of Sheba (0)
15: Changes (7)
14: Breakin’ 132!!! (12)
12: Filling the Day: Good Stuff to Eat, College Classes, Universities (8)
11: Workin’ Again (6)
10: Dishwasher Conundrum, Updated (4)
08: Rainy Day of the Skinny Migraineur (2)
05: “Have a Great Week”…gimme a break! (7)
04: Jon Stewart: He’s B-a-a-a-a-a-c-k (0)
04: Holy Sh!t Moments (6)
03: What I Most Don’t Like about Credit Cards: Betting on the Come (16)

August 2013 (23)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Veterinarian Bill Avoidance: Clean the Dog’s Teeth (6)
30: More on the Dishwasher Detergent Issue (14)
28: Do You Carry Your Pets Safely in the Car? (10)
26: Live-blogging from…What? (7)
24: August 24 Roundup (9)
23: TSP: Dishwasher Rises from the Dead! (21)
21: Idle Essay Day (10)
20: Consumer Alert: HOLY Mackerel! (4)
19: Cash or Credit? (24)
17: Planning for Your Survivors: How Much Insurance? (12)
16: Lizard! (4)
15: Course Prep Prepped! (10)
14: State of the Union: Found in Some News Story’s Comments… (6)
13: Uh oh… Another Boondoggle about to Come Home to Roost? (9)
13: How Much, Really, Should We Be Protected from Ourselves? (13)
10: Another Saturday Morning at the Funny Farm… (4)
09: Things You Should Know About…and a Song for George (5)
07: A Measure of Success (7)
06: If You’d Asked Me, I Would’ve Told You… (5)
04: How to Annoy the Queen of the Universe…and other weekend exploits (9)
03: Weekend Explorations (4)
02: Your Taxpayer Dollars at…uhm… Work? (7)
01: ’Druther Drive Than Ride, Thanks… (0)

July 2013 (21)
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31: Casting Off the Crutches…and Adjusting to the New Third-World America (10)
29: Quiet for a While Here (8)
27: Bead Frenzy! (0)
26: Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, the Lynch Mob, and America’s Reality (16)
25: A House Is Not a “Home”… (18)
23: Use It Up, Make It Do, Wear It Out: The Joy of Fixing Stuff (0)
21: Perp Tales: Update on the Garage Invasion (4)
20: Navigating the Food Desert (4)
18: Fell Off the Diet Wagon! (9)
17: Carnival Comin’ Our Way! And various chatter… (2)
15: Something Good Happened, for a Change! (3)
15: Gold-Buggered! Protecting Your Heirs from Con Artists (0)
12: Why Do You Want to Do That? (16)
11: Real Books Don’t Disappear… (4)
10: One Good Thing to Eat: Gorgeous Mujadara Lentils (4)
08: Thinnening Thoughts… (6)
07: 20 Excuses to Cheat on the Diet (8)
05: Shoulda Been a Christian Scientist (6)
04: Happy Independence Day (4)
03: Cash Worked! Is This a Sea Change? (0)
02: Doldrums (2)

June 2013 (27)
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30: R.I.P. Yarnell Firefighters (0)
30: Google Reader Fans: Time to Migrate to a New Reader (1)
28: Gin and Ginger and Serious Heat (6)
27: Resumés: What Do You Have to Say for Yourself? (6)
26: Beautiful Soup! (4)
25: How to Make a Stay-Cool Cold Pack (2)
24: A Distraction…Make that Two Distractions (6)
22: Wouldn’t It Be Loverly? (2)
18: Diet News, E-book News (6)
17: Various Cool Stuff (6)
16: Summer is the most expensive month… (4)
14: Life’s Daily Message: Don’t Get Cocky… (8)
13: Frugal Coup of the Day! (8)
12: How to Make Authentic Curry Powder (and what to do with it) (5)
12: Caution: Consumers at Work (0)
11: Celebrating!!!! (6)
10: Ghosts of Stupidity Past (6)
09: Decluttering Hell: File Cabinets (10)
08: How to Game the Coupon System (2)
07: Biking as Exercise Shortcut (9)
06: Less Meat…but Better Meat? (5)
05: And While We’re at It…Cucumber Gin Rickey Recipe (2)
05: Eggplant Joy! (1)
04: It Seems So Obvious… (3)
03: Life in the New (healthful, we hope) Regime (7)
02: Why I Love to Read the Business Section, and Other Linkish Topics (13)
01: Yarnell Dreamin’ (0)

May 2013 (21)
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28: Memento Mori…and all that stuff (15)
28: One More Year…Until the Year Arrives (7)
26: Links 4 next week (5)
24: “Harmless” OTC Drugs: When Will I Ever Learn? (13)
21: Prepare Your Business for Disaster (0)
20: Funny, the German Shepherd, and the Dog Behavioralist (6)
19: The “End of the Month & We’re Broke” Pot-luck Pasta Salad (0)
17: Wounded Dog Dodges Bankruptcy (14)
16: Medicare Supplement: QUALIFIED! (3)
15: Cleaning FRENZY! (5)
13: This, That, and Various Survivors (6)
12: Finds and Links (1)
10: Training Prosecutors: It WAS Entertaining (6)
10: Training Prosecutors…This Could Be Entertaining (2)
09: Gimme that old-time household junk… (12)
07: Preparing for Emergencies: Small, Big, or Catastrophic (6)
06: School’s Out! (2)
04: Link-O-Rama: First Friday Edition (3)
03: A Couple of Things I Can Afford to Do Without… (7)
02: Money Happens (0)
01: Decomplicate Me! (7)

April 2013 (26)
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30: MacJunketing (14)
29: My Achin’ Back Roundup! (5)
26: Why I Don’t Need a Gun (9)
25: w00t! Zillow Speaks! (9)
24: Medigap Runaround, 2013 (10)
23: One Toke Too Hilarious! (2)
21: Hiking Oak Creek! (4)
19: “Terrorist”: Let’s Call a Spade a Spade (10)
19: OMG! Actual CUSTOMER SERVICE!!! (7)
18: Hiking/Health Update (6)
17: The Bargain Tax (10)
16: Curry: Brain Food? (4)
15: Private Fingers in the Medicare Pot (5)
14: Up North Mountain (10)
13: The IRS, the Cardiologist, the Money Manager, and the Accountant (7)
12: How to Fill a Computer Vacation (0)
11: A Declaration of Independence (8)
10: King Charlie (2)
09: Dirt Redux: You Thought I Exaggerated? (0)
09: Dirt! (6)
08: Whacked and Windblown (1)
08: Billing for the Little Stuff (11)
04: And Spring Slides into Summer… (0)
02: The Time Management Waltz (6)
01: A Close Call in the Real Estate Department (5)
01: Linklets (2)

March 2013 (20)
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31: Thank You, God! (0)
31: Happy Easter! (5)
28: Money Happens! (7)
26: Midori! (1)
25: Around and About the Web (6)
23: Warning: Toxic Cooking Utensils! (13)
20: {Grump!!!} (11)
18: Do We Have More Expenses Than Our Parents Did? (18)
15: MORE Perp Hassle! (8)
13: Counting Our Blessings…with a Grain of Salt (9)
12: Queen of the Universe in Action (2)
11: w00t! Vacated!! (4)
11: How to Be a “Victim” (0)
08: A New Trend We Could Do Without (10)
06: The Identity Thief at the Doorstep (3)
04: Watch Television? Why? (7)
04: Evernote and the Enterprising Hacker: When Dinosaurhood Isn’t Such a Bad Thing… (2)
02: I Bought 80 Onions! (4)
02: Dads: How to Be a Thrifty Role Model (0)
01: Annals of the Floored and Flabbergasted (6)

February 2013 (15)
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28: Culinary Blast from the Past: Hippy-Dippy Rice Pilaf (2)
27: Going over to LED Lighting (7)
25: When Rich People Get STUFF… (12)
23: Furniture Revisited: Feeling Happier (0)
22: Expensive Disappointment (9)
20: SOLD! Another necklace finds a home (0)
19: Honey(less)-do’s (8)
18: You Get What You Pay For (6)
14: Physical Therapy and Ginger Oil (7)
13: Gearing Up for a New Semester (10)
11: Ginger Oil Painkiller…The Poor Man’s Emu Oil? (7)
10: When Someone You Know Is a Crook (16)
07: Would you like a set of Noritake? Or a place setting of Lenox? At a discount! (8)
05: Less I$ More (10)
01: Survivors and Succumbers (0)

January 2013 (27)
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30: Adventures in Furniture Repair (8)
29: Old Lady Skypes iPad, Dumps T-Mobile (7)
28: Amazon.com Rises to the Occasion! (7)
28: God’s Car Wash…and Wash…and Wash (0)
28: Video Conferencing for Small Businesses (0)
28: Confidence Rising among Smaller Businesses (1)
26: Live-Blogging from inside a Raincloud (3)
26: Grocery-store Gasoline Discounts: Deal or No Deal? (8)
26: Trading by Smartphone Is on the Rise (0)
24: What Makes Word Crash??? (7)
23: Frugality, the Child of Necessity (13)
23: Spend Our Way Out of Recession (0)
22: Let Your House Work for You (4)
21: The Changes We Make (4)
19: A Show and a Nice Day (2)
17: Cute Li’l Place… (16)
17: Breaking Down a Job into Its Components (5)
14: Totally Tubuler ICE! (5)
13: Live-Blogging from inside a Cotton Cocoon (5)
12: One Thing after Another (5)
11: The Garden Shaft… (6)
10: Where’s Yore Sign? The joys of dealing with the public (6)
08: The Job-a-Day Schedule (18)
07: Pre-Spring Gardening (13)
06: Revisiting Old New Year’s Resolutions (8)
05: How to Fix a Broken Nail (0)
03: And so a new year begins… (6)

December 2012 (18)
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31: Happy New Year! (3)
29: Medicare Part D: The Biggest Rip That Ever Came Down the Pike? (6)
27: Live-blogging from the Waiting Room (2)
26: Pots & Pans Indulgence!!!!! (6)
24: Making Comments a Thing of the Past (8)
23: Unstuck in Time (1)
21: The NRA Slips Its Collective Trolley…and other mind-numbing stuff (4)
19: Planning to Live on Irregular Pay (10)
16: What Can Be Done? (3)
14: Money Happens…along with everything else (0)
13: Telephone Predators on the Elderly (9)
12: Cool New Bead App! Lanyards! (0)
10: Bug-Eyed in America (2)
10: Weirdly Hectic Few Days (6)
07: Life Looks Brighter at One in the Morning (6)
06: How Is It Possible? Another Day from Hell! (1)
05: Think Medical Care Is Bad in This Country? (3)
03: The Frugalist’s Gemstone? (1)

November 2012 (19)
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30: Have I Found My Calling in Life? (8)
29: One of Those Days… (6)
27: Lariat Necklaces a Success! (6)
26: Define “Success,” Please (10)
24: For the Love of…well, of DOGS? (9)
23: Amazing Cashew-Yam Casserole (0)
21: Freedom Remorse? Short-Timer’s Syndrome and Second Thoughts (7)
20: Writing God a Thank You (3)
18: First sale! (8)
15: Funny’s Fine Jewelry: Great Christmas Gift — or Indulgence (4)
14: Shoring up the Defenses, and Tales of Perps and Dumb Marks (7)
12: NOW what? (3)
09: Perp Update (9)
07: Disaster Preparedness (8)
06: Summoned by Sheriff Joe (15)
05: Postscript: The Best and Highest Use of Meatloaf (2)
04: How to Make Real Meatloaf (12)
02: Busy days upcoming (7)
01: Opt Out of Forced Arbitration! (1)

October 2012 (17)
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30: Moment of Fame Leads to Education Moment (11)
29: Starbucks ≠ Neighborhood Coffee Shop (11)
25: Why? (7)
24: New Little Garden! (2)
22: Dressed, Stressed, and Messed! (12)
20: How to Know When It’s Time to Clean Out the Garage… (5)
19: A Little Coup at the Second-Hand Store (4)
17: Cute, Cheap “Ergonomic” Stool: A Qualified Success (2)
16: The Frugal Virtues of Buying Expensive Stuff (8)
15: One Fewer Worry to Obsess About… (3)
13: Incredible Cool Weather Roundup (7)
12: Adventures in Physical Therapy (11)
11: w00t! AWESOME Drop in Power Bill (8)
09: Medicated America: Our Brave New World (25)
08: Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Four Years Ago? (9)
04: Another Day, Another…what? Dollar? (8)
02: Stress Management Redux (5)

September 2012 (19)
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30: New Growth (8)
29: The Relativity of Time (8)
27: Costco: How Much Does Saving Money Cost You? (17)
26: More Days from Hell (0)
25: What Goes Around Comes Around (2)
22: Weekend Roundup: Politics as High Comedy Edition (9)
20: Report from the Ramparts of Hell (6)
19: The Great Pantie Hoarding Caper (7)
18: Yummy Little Fig & Bacon Bites (2)
17: Fall Has Sprung! (3)
15: Comment Killers (17)
14: Networking Groups (1)
13: A 10-Minute Post: For Plantar Fascitis: Freeze Your Shoes (6)
11: Is My Boss Watching? (0)
10: The Great Escape: How to Make This Work (12)
08: Saturday Pick-ups (5)
06: The Opportunity Cost of Adjunct Teaching (11)
04: More on the Great Escape (5)
01: Life Is Short. Eternity Is Long. (37)

August 2012 (22)
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31: Delayed Gratification and the Beloved Dishes: I want these! (21)
29: Cost of Education: Another Country Heard From (3)
28: Holy Cripes! (10)
26: Turning Freshman Comp into Personal Finance 101 (11)
24: Why Can’t Life Happen at One’s Convenience? (6)
23: This & That (9)
21: Staying on Budget: Manually Track Credit-card Charges (6)
20: What’s Clean? And…the incredible wastefulness of cleaning products (16)
18: What I’d Want to Do If I Still Had Time to Grow Up (7)
17: Exercise: To pay or not to pay? (12)
16: DIY Pool Debris Shields that Work and Save Dollars (4)
14: Unpaid Labor (14)
13: Would You Pay to Read the Local Paper Online? (7)
11: Safeway’s Latest Gimmick: Enough, Already? (4)
10: Medical Overkill? (12)
08: An Alternative Option to a Standard Pension (8)
08: Dollars & Docs (4)
07: New Washer! (2)
06: Vote for Donna! (1)
04: Go$h! Gasoline Gobsmack (8)
03: Quiet on the Western Front…for the moment… (2)
02: Investing in a Low-Interest-Rate Environment (1)

July 2012 (20)
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31: Enough with the Pieces of Paper, Already! (7)
29: Workman Waltz: Blue Danube Dance (9)
27: When the Workman Waltz Turns into the Workman Stumble… (12)
26: Success! I managed to make myself sick! (15)
24: Overpackaged! How much is this debris costing us?? (6)
23: Ridiculous Retirement System: With a Vengeance (4)
21: {sigh} (10)
19: Why I Hate Teaching (11)
18: T-Mobile Drags Dinosaur into the 21st Century (7)
17: Credit Cards: Will a Use Surcharge Change Your Habits? (10)
14: Rainy Day and Reading (4)
13: Cost-effective Source for Eyeglasses (3)
12: Congrats on Your New Self-cleaning Oven — Oh, BTW, Don’t Use the Self-clean Cycle (10)
11: Getting Funnier and Funnier about Everything (0)
10: Pots and Phones: Decisions taken (7)
09: Real Retro: The frugal virtues of never throwing stuff away (+ how to percolate coffee) (4)
07: Off the Cell Phone Diving Board! (20)
04: July 4: A Miracle Happens in Arizona! (7)
03: Readings (6)
02: The Ambivalence of Doggy Love (0)

June 2012 (25)
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29: Waldo Canyon: Staggering Video (0)
29: There but for the Grace of God… (4)
28: At the End of the Day… (0)
27: New Arcadia Door Curtains: $75! (0)
26: Quit the Day Job? How’s about PART of the Day Job? (2)
24: The Gift Not Given (1)
22: Reference Works (2)
20: Dust in the Air, Dust in the Gears… (0)
19: Readings (0)
18: A Few Twinkles of Hope in the Money Department (2)
16: Vote Now! What’s Funny’s Best Post of the Year? (4)
15: Dog$! Grrrrrrrrrr…. (9)
14: Joe’s War: Great Book for Veterans and WW II Buffs (0)
12: Live-Blogging from the Jobsite (6)
11: WTF Is in Your Food? (10)
10: Roundup: Dog Joy Edition (10)
08: Competitive Shopping at the Home Depot (11)
07: LinkedIn…Gronk! (3)
06: Networking (0)
05: Privacy: A thing of the past? (13)
04: Cardless in Gaza (4)
03: Check Out My Guest Post at 101 Centavos! (0)
02: Live-Blogging from Hell (2)
02: Nanovacationing (0)
01: The Workman Waltz: Angie’s Dance (8)

May 2012 (25)
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31: Debit Card Overdraft Fees Pose Hidden Danger for Unwary Consumers (0)
31: Workin’ on the Business Plan (4)
30: Best $20 I Ever Spent? (2)
29: Spare Me EFFETE! (4)
28: I WANNA SPEND!!!!! (5)
27: Part 1: Never. Ever. Fails (2)
27: Part 2: How to Wash Dishes by Hand (0)
27: Part 3: What Happened Next… (0)
26: All-Clad On Sale (1)
26: The Wages of Comparison Shopping (4)
25: The Workman Waltz (2)
24: Big Job… (6)
22: Money Unhappens, Money Rehappens (4)
20: How to Fight the Stay-at-Home Parent Penalties (14)
17: Life, Interrupted (2)
16: Locks & Doors, Doors & Locks (4)
15: DIY Paint Chips: How to Decide on a Color (6)
14: Shoring Up the Barricades (1)
13: Funniest Customer Disservice Eff-You Remark EVER! (0)
09: Why Am I Here? (13)
07: Proud to Be Laid Off… A job to feel well rid of (1)
05: Live-Blogging from the Crime Scene (27)
04: One Down, a Million More to Go… (5)
02: Another best-laid plan defunct (0)
01: Speaking of Time Sucks… (4)

April 2012 (22)
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30: Day at the Botanical Garden (1)
29: Time Management Revisited (5)
27: Home Prices…Up 20 Percent?????? (3)
25: Here Comes Another Big Expense (3)
24: Burnout: When Something’s Gotta Go… (9)
23: What a Lender Is Thinking… (2)
21: 2012 Baptized! (1)
21: Real Estate Rebounding? (0)
19: MacThump: Naked Emperor Trips & Falls (0)
17: Getting an Insurance Checkup (2)
15: Cruising the Web for Fun and…Profit? (1)
13: Feeling Short on Things to Be Thankful For? (6)
13: On the Fly Friday (0)
12: $mall miracle shaping up (3)
11: This, That, and the Other (2)
09: A$k Lady Karma, and ye shall re¢eive (7)
09: Money Worries: I’ve gotta stay away from the computer (19)
06: Of Music, Puppies, Popcorn, and Whiskey (2)
05: Entrepreneurs: Crystal Stemberger’s Blogging Empire (8)
04: Pasta-free Eggplant Lasagne (2)
03: Moment of Fame (0)
02: The Coyote’s at the Door (9)

March 2012 (22)
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30: The Walk on the Wild Side Continues (2)
29: Motorcycle Granma Rides Again! (3)
28: Springtime, the Very Pretty Burglar Time… (2)
27: Plodding toward a New Career (3)
26: Am I Going Slower? Or Is There Just Too Much to Do? (9)
23: Is That Light a Will o’ the Wisp? Or a Train at the End of the Tunnel? (13)
21: Can’t Win for Losin’ (2)
20: Read It! (1)
20: A Peek through the Escape Hatch…and other minor details (4)
20: Recipe: Puffed or “Dutch” Pancake (0)
19: Entertaining for Fun and Profit (5)
17: How to Enrage a Dog…and other springtime chat (0)
16: Disable Lion’s ANNOYING Automatic Spelling Correction (0)
13: Springtime, and the Morons Are Swarming (6)
12: Budget: Busted, Disgusted, and Can’t Be Trusted (10)
09: Update on the Nest (2)
08: Interviewed and Fried (5)
07: Getting Back on Track (10)
06: MacZapped and MacFixed (2)
05: NESTing the Thermostat (2)
03: Net Worth in the Time of Cholera… (7)
02: Thrifty Interview Outfit (3)

February 2012 (23)
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28: Budgeting Time for a Better Life (5)
27: Money Update: Lookin’…not so bad (6)
26: w00t! The Lion Roars! (2)
25: Apple iCloud: iFog? (2)
24: MacTimeWasting (1)
23: Charley’s New Sport: Counter-surfing! (2)
22: How to Make Dog Food (9)
20: w00t! MacJoy! (6)
20: Market on the Move: Ultrafrugal produce (7)
17: Jury Duty Postponed… (3)
15: Doctored and Drugged and Summoned (11)
14: Decluttering: Books (4)
14: The Virtues of Saving Paper… (9)
13: Business Starts a-Poppin’ (3)
11: Adjunctorium Returns! (4)
11: Enrich and Extend Your Moisturizing Lotion with…What Else? Olive Oil! (7)
11: It’s Raining Money! (9)
10: Jobs: Out of the Frying Pan (2)
08: Is This EVER Gonna Go Away? (9)
06: Tax Time y-Cumin’ In (4)
04: High Noon: Concealed Weapons on the College Campus (9)
03: Susan G. Komen vs. Planned Parenthood (23)
01: Saved from Another $250 Bill (4)

January 2012 (27)
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30: Codeine Cough Medicine…where’s our common sense gone? (24)
30: Tax Time Sneaking Up: Are You Organized? (4)
28: Swimming Pool Delittering Joy (3)
28: Charley and the Ferocious Corgi (7)
26: Google Privacy Follow-up (0)
26: Out of My Face, Google! (3)
25: Check Out My New Blog! (3)
25: The Beside-the-Dumpster Exchange (5)
24: What’s Your Choice: More Years or Better Life? (8)
23: RVs and Credit-Card Checks, Oh My! (3)
21: Back in Hock Again (5)
20: Sick Again…or Still? (4)
18: Oppose SOPA and PIPA (4)
18: Veggie Cook-a-thon! (2)
17: Real Estate: Lookin’ Up…WAY Up (8)
16: Opportunity Cost/Hassle Cost (3)
16: w00t! Guest Post at Planting Money Seeds (3)
14: O Lucky Man! Gene Hackman Survives Biking (6)
13: I Don’t Wanna Know… (3)
12: Yipe! Stop the World… (1)
10: Versatilablogger (4)
09: The $600 Trade-Off (9)
08: How to Make Real Cornbread…and Stuff (5)
06: Yoga: Not All Karmic Sweetness and Light? (3)
05: A Night on the Town (3)
02: 2102 New Year’s Retrospective & Prospective (0)
01: Happy New Year! (2)

December 2011 (23)
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30: Breakin’ Even! (8)
28: Accursed Computers, Bizarre Lesson Plans (0)
26: Higher Education in America: A Modest Proposal (7)
24: Beautiful on a Budget—Naturally (3)
23: Strange Little Money Habits (11)
21: Where Have All the Shopppers Gone…? (9)
20: How Do You Spell “Puppy”? c-h-a-o-s (11)
19: When DO i get my life back? (4)
18: Hot Buttered Rum for a Cold Wintry Day (4)
17: Health Insurance Eye-Popper (24)
16: Exeunt the Devil-Pod Tree, Pursued by a Chain-Saw (5)
14: Rain Puppy (5)
14: Stress-Free Finances: Close Out Revolving Debt (2)
13: Do You Really NEED It?… (8)
12: Personal Finance, Academics, and the Perpetual Recession (12)
10: Life Lessons from the Mountain (6)
09: Eau de Bourbono Mouthwash (4)
07: w00t! Wednesdays from Hell Are OVER!!! (1)
07: Bye-bye, Mr. Postman (10)
06: Glorious Sprouts! (6)
04: The Frost Is on the Palm Tree (3)
03: End in sight…but apparently not the end of teaching (1)
01: I Love My Students, but…. (8)

November 2011 (22)
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29: Stress-free Finances: Bank at a Credit Union (10)
28: Keepin’ the Books, Keepin’ the House (8)
25: Moments of Light (5)
24: Happy Thanksgiving! (3)
24: Black Friday: Turn Off Your Phone at the Mall (3)
23: Another Day, Another Job Hunt (3)
20: The REAL Handyman’s Secret Weapon (4)
19: Bounty! (4)
18: Stress-free Finances: What Do You Want? (9)
16: The Problem with Working in the Cloud… (6)
14: Today’s Holding Pattern (2)
12: Would you test this for me, please (21)
12: Moment of Actual Fun (2)
10: D from H, Redux (4)
08: Insurance Frolics (3)
08: Dogs: Letting Nature Take Its Course (4)
06: Makin’ Olives, Greek-Style (2)
05: Quickie Weddings…Revanche ♥ PiC (2)
03: Business Planning (9)
02: Love Drop! (0)
02: Wednesday from Hell, November 2 (6)
01: Eventually, This Too Shall Pass (8)

October 2011 (22)
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31: Urban Hallowe’en Tales: The Burglar Who Is Still Running (5)
30: Fainting Dead Away in the Grocery Store (2)
29: Grumpy Old Lady’s Jaundiced View of Fools (4)
28: w00t! Am I gonna get a RAISE? (0)
27: Stress-Free Finances: Cultivate Minimalism (5)
26: Urban Hallowe’en Tales: The Night of the Screaming (4)
25: Lives of the Self-Employed (4)
23: Is It Time to Go? (15)
20: The Frugal Joy of Big Batches and a Freezer (2)
19: Yay! Not strep, after all (4)
19: Stress-Free Finances: Deposit and Pay Electronically (2)
18: Business Is Lookin’ Up! (4)
17: How to Control Financial Stress (0)
15: Excellent Paypal Tool! (7)
13: Cloud Computing, Marketing Strategies, Hopeless Jobs, and Mad as a Cat (3)
12: The Joy of Listing (4)
09: Is This Ever Gonna STOP? (2)
07: Second-Hand Rose: A Thrift Shop Score (5)
06: New Love Drop! (0)
04: Condo Gardening (0)
03: Fall has sprung! Time to garden (5)
02: FoF is NEXT next week (1)

September 2011 (19)
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29: Close Call on the Homicidal Streets (3)
28: What’s in People’s Heads? (8)
24: Real Estate: That light at the end of the tunnel may not be a train (6)
23: Ancient Roman Wine (10)
21: Round-up: Fresh weather edition (5)
21: Funny Gets a Makeover (6)
19: Real Estate, the Neighborhood, and the Ideal Dwelling (5)
17: Can’t get through the work… (4)
15: What if we didn’t have to pay school taxes? (3)
13: Grass may be greener, but is it cheaper? (8)
12: You Don’t Always Know When You’re Lucky (8)
09: Entrepreneurship: How much time should I spend on…? (7)
08: Benefits of Joining a Business Group (4)
06: Pound-wise, Penny-foolish? (12)
05: Cherry-picking the Looniness (29)
04: Weekend Recouping and Recombobulating (4)
02: Worrying (15)
01: If you didn’t already think Arizona is the home of Loony Toons… (7)
01: How’s about we do some actual teaching in the schools? (5)

August 2011 (23)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Real Estate: Is everyone down the Rabbit Hole? (3)
29: End-Times Bargains! (End of season, that is) (2)
27: “Now Matters”: Balancing frugality with life (1)
26: Aborted Day…and night (5)
25: Urk! (0)
23: Debt Consolidation: Proceed with Caution (2)
21: Various household and other hints (5)
20: Two-day break…sorta (6)
18: Weird Wind-up to a Peckish Day (4)
17: Paradise Bakery Saves Me Some Dough (17)
15: Haven’t forgotten you… (6)
13: MORE Money Happens! (5)
12: Whoa! Money happens!! (0)
12: Summer Budget Overruns: When that sneaking feeling is right… (3)
11: w00t! Over the Blackboard Wall and Free at Last with WordPress! (5)
10: Life before Lemon Laws (4)
09: The Markets of 2011: 2008 déjà vu? (11)
08: Songs of the Times (1)
06: Saturday Night Wipe-out (5)
06: Signs of the Times… (1)
04: Jack Daniels and the Swizzle Stick (15)
02: Debt Management: Keeping on Top of Your Personal Finances (0)
01: Soggy, cranky day (4)

July 2011 (26)
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30: Busy Weekend (4)
29: Dog Days of Summer (11)
27: Still Pouring Out There… (3)
26: Making $7,390 stretch for a year…and living decently (4)
25: The Weirdness That Is Adsense (4)
23: Pupple! (7)
22: Back online…sort of (10)
21: Laws of Physics: The Mutability of Time (3)
19: These People Would Lead America? (18)
18: Another Shafting for Adjuncts, Comin’ Our Way (2)
17: Planning for Emergency Expenditures (13)
16: Is She Gone? (2)
15: My Daddy’s Diet (8)
13: Dog Attack: Trounced Pooch (15)
12: We Won’t Be Getting That Job…or Much of Anything (13)
12: w00t! w00t! and w00-h00-h00t!!! (6)
10: The Bottomless Job Application (7)
09: Chase Bank Credit Card Frolic (3)
07: The Wages of Weak Education (0)
06: Clean-up Day (6)
06: More freakish weather (5)
05: First Day of Class (3)
05: Hot Cat at the Firehouse (7)
02: 118° in the Shade… Or, Why I Want to Move to YARNELL! (2)
01: What’s this thing? (5)
01: Car: Budget (and wheels) rescued (3)

June 2011 (26)
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30: Off-Label! How to REALLY clean glass shower doors (18)
29: Round-up, and Carnival Headed This Way (5)
27: Ask the Hive Mind: Can standing up to blog help you lose weight? (4)
26: Soggy Doggy! (3)
25: The Standing Blogger…or, Computer as Idiot Box (6)
24: With vacations like this, who needs work? (4)
22: The Sanity Discount: Ethics for Small Businesses and Bloggers (3)
21: Gunfire? Reconsidering the suburbs… (5)
20: iPad: Probably Not Now… (1)
18: Ant Wars: The Battle of Kenmore (2)
18: Real Estate, 2011 (3)
16: Bird Rescue (6)
15: Tardy Roundup: Dishwash detergent edition (8)
14: Gorgeous Summer Schedule (2)
13: Credit Report Check (1)
11: Car: To Buy or Not to Buy… (15)
10: The Empty Garage (2)
09: Why EVERYONE Needs to Learn How to Manage Money… (8)
08: Off the Grid! (6)
07: How to Cook (3)
06: How to Make a Composter (7)
05: Swimming pool w00t! (1)
05: Close Encounters of the Wee-Hours Kind (5)
03: Wafting on the Wind… (2)
01: God Loves Daughters-in-Law… (4)
01: Retirement: Not for the faint of heart (7)

May 2011 (24)
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31: Grab It and Run! (13)
30: Cookie Jar$ (4)
28: The Value of a Dollar (6)
27: Lady Cruella, Ph.D. (20)
26: Summer Boozie Pops (2)
24: And the Winner Is… (3)
23: They’re FOUND! (6)
23: Today’s the LAST DAY! (0)
23: Delaying the Big Shopping Junket: It Worked! (0)
21: Killing Harry: A True Story (3)
20: Why I Grind My Teeth… (8)
19: Shingles Shot: Pricey! But Worth It… (7)
18: How to Deal with a Workplace Bully (5)
16: Funny’s First Giveaway! The ULTIMATE FaM Product! (7)
14: Holding Pattern… (2)
13: What Price Gasoline? (9)
12: Medicare Bills: OMG! (7)
11: Blackboard: Always Leave ’Em Tearing Their Hair… (0)
10: Small Frugalities, Small Chintzinesses? (13)
08: Roundup: Summer’s Here Edition (2)
06: Love Drop Update (2)
04: Financial Terrors: What’s your worst fear? (20)
03: Dentist: Pays to get that second opinion (2)
02: Blogging: Something’s gotta give (8)

April 2011 (24)
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30: Here and There around the Web (5)
29: Sticker Shock at the Grocery Store! (9)
28: Noodling Around: 5 reasons why I prefer a (Mac)/(PC) (3)
27: The Economy: How Pessimistic Are We? (4)
26: Hold the Phone, Here… (4)
25: Liveblogging the Budget (11)
22: Good (and Not-So-Good) Friday (3)
21: Prius Batteries: Yikes! (14)
20: Puppy Love: How to tell if it’s the real thing (4)
18: Sumer is y-cumin’ in… (1)
16: Intersections (1)
15: Pots, Pans, and BKF to the Rescue (4)
14: The Joy of Ethnic Markets (4)
13: Are You Cutting Gas Use? CAN You? (7)
13: Funny Wins a Prize! (3)
12: Taking Care of Your Health Pays (3)
11: Long Days, Long Nights (5)
09: A “Gift” from Sears (3)
08: A Concatenation of Fools (0)
07: Found Treasure: Fancy frying pans and how to care for them (7)
06: Still Sick and Got Too Much Work! (0)
04: Macy’s to Funny: Life Is Good (5)
03: Zapped by Macy’s! (5)
01: Money Happens; So Do Fiascos (4)

March 2011 (27)
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29: Keep? Or Take It Back? (10)
28: Can You Support Your Parents? (6)
27: Asparagus cheese torte! (1)
26: Who, Me? Rich? What does it mean to be rich, anyway? (6)
24: Another Day, Another Dollar…Another Few Dollars Lighter (1)
23: There’s gotta be something good out there… (0)
22: Using Net Worth as a Personal Finance Benchmark (1)
22: More to Come… (4)
20: New Financial Goal (7)
19: Saturday Meanderings (4)
18: Alley Treasures (5)
18: News of the Day (2)
17: Busted, Disgusted, and Cain’t Be Trusted (3)
16: Like a chicken with its head cut off… (0)
15: Two Serendipitous Money Developments (7)
14: Japan: How to Help (1)
13: I Wanna Go Swimming! (3)
12: Flying Dog Saturday (4)
11: I Hate Blackboard (9)
10: Hemorrhaging Money! (7)
09: Real Estate: Catastrophic (8)
09: Ash Wednesday: Forty thankful posts for Lent (0)
07: Workman Waltz: Save the Last Dance for Me… (6)
05: Best Piece Jon Stewart’s Done to Date (7)
05: I Ain’t Workin’ Saturday! (6)
04: Security Doors…Probably Not (6)
01: AMEX Windfall…Disappointing and Not Disappointing (9)

February 2011 (25)
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28: How to Make Sustainable, Ecofriendly Household Cleansers (11)
27: Live-Blogging from Elm Street… (14)
26: Another Rainy Day Roundup (6)
25: Annual Windfall Arrives (4)
24: Thinking about Sustainability (10)
23: Gasoline Costs Putting a Crimp on Life (7)
22: Of Dentists, Trees, and Retirement Pay (6)
21: “Healthy” Junk Food: We spend MONEY on this? (7)
19: Love Drop and the Weekend Roundup (6)
18: KISSing the Bookkeeping (5)
17: Crockpot Chicken Stock, Avgolemono Soup, Braised Sauerkraut (2)
16: Time to Buy a Big-Ticket Item? (17)
15: Storage in the Cloud (1)
14: Another week, comin’ our way… (3)
12: Another Day in Paradise… (2)
10: Long-Term Care Insurance: Why You Need It (8)
09: How to Talk to Your Hair Stylist (15)
08: Where Education Goes, There Goes America (12)
07: Excel vs. Quicken (7)
06: Stir-fry That Broccoli (2)
05: Solitude Is Precious (7)
04: The High Cost of AARP Delta Dental (51)
03: Ad Lib Whole-grain Oat Bread (0)
02: Winter Doldrums: Workman Waltz, Round 2; Taxman Cometh (0)
01: Bureaucrats and the Workman Waltz (0)

January 2011 (25)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Coupons for Sale or Rent… (7)
30: Busy Weekend Roundup (4)
29: Egypt (0)
29: Life in Academe, 2011 (1)
27: The Incredible Lightness of Our Economy… (2)
25: Mortgage Mod (8)
24: Financial Planners: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (6)
22: What I Learned During the Year of Penury (20)
21: Cranky Old Bat vs. Newfangled Junk (17)
19: How to Procrastinate, Dawdle, and Waste Time While Reading Student Papers (4)
18: Budgeting for a Windfall (18)
17: Darn It! How to repair a hole in your sock (1)
16: Sunday Afternoon This and That (4)
14: Smoggy Talk! Smoggy Talk! (6)
13: Canned Dog Food: Anyone Tried This? (10)
13: Dateline Arizona: Various News of the Day (0)
12: More Days of Our Lives (2)
11: Ten Ways to Deal with Bag Lady Syndrome (3)
08: Sarah Gets Her Bull’s-Eye (25)
07: Love Drop Gets Even Better (1)
06: Whence Bag Lady Syndrome? (13)
04: Three reasons to keep the land line (15)
04: Ooops! (8)
02: Cutting for Stone: A Good Read (1)
01: THE New Year’s Resolution: Manage Time for Better Health (12)

December 2010 (30)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Blogiversary (4)
31: Hoppin’ John and Cornbread: The Good Luck New Year’s Dish (4)
29: MozRank…Is This the New PageRank? (6)
29: Live-Blogging from Storm Central (1)
28: In the Depths of the Dillard’s Outlet (5)
27: Twitter followers! (0)
27: Tax Break Comin’ Your Way! What Will You Do with It? (2)
26: Getting Rid of Junk Mail: DMA and other choices (2)
24: Merry Christmas! Have Some Fun! (1)
23: God’s Free Carwash (6)
22: Christmas Bread Pudding (2)
21: The Organizeder I Try to Get, the More Disorganized I Am (3)
20: Here and There around the Blogosphere (8)
19: The Squeaky Wheel Gets the (Hamburger) Grease (3)
18: What Will Your House Be Worth in 15 Years? (14)
17: Job Opportunity: To work or not to work? (6)
17: A Holiday Feast that’s Easy and Good and NOT Turkey (8)
16: All I want for Christmas is… (6)
15: Roses! She’s at it again (1)
13: Was your data caught up in the Gawker hack? (1)
13: The Workman Waltz: Flirtation Stage (7)
12: School’s Out! (0)
11: Christmas Is for Friends (5)
10: School’s out! (…almost…) (1)
09: Save the Last Dance for Me… (6)
08: Hurrah! (2)
06: w00t! First Payment from Amazon! (3)
04: O Tannenbaum, O Fakenbaum: Real Christmas tree or fake? (11)
03: A Quarter Saved, a Quarter Earned… (7)
01: Tiny House Demo (5)

November 2010 (31)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Eine Kleine Estate Planning (4)
29: Social Security Outcome: Positive! (6)
29: Jousting with the Bureaucrats…Again! (1)
28: A Handmade Christmas Present: Bath Powder (0)
27: Amazon Prime: Worth the Cost? (6)
26: Shop local and get a $25 AMEX kickback (0)
26: “You Are How You Caffeinate” (1)
25: Happy Thanksgiving! (0)
24: Decluttering the In-box (0)
23: Late Tuesday Evening (0)
22: Busting a Gut to Get a Vacation (9)
21: Pound-foolish…again! (6)
18: THIS Is a Disaster? More news from the insurance front (4)
18: College Cooking Crash Course: Superior Christmas Present for Young Adults! (1)
17: Another interesting day forthcoming (2)
16: Bit$ and Piece$: Live-blogging from Hell (7)
14: The ultimate frugalist’s candle (5)
13: Best Guide to the Medicare Maze (5)
12: It Never Rains but It…HAILS? (13)
11: Veteran’s Day: Celebrate! (3)
10: w00t! A Beautiful Bike! (11)
09: Apple Turnover$ (4)
08: A Dark Glimmer of Hope (12)
08: Small Bit of Housekeeping (3)
07: Penny-wise, Pound-foolish? (8)
06: Wonderful magazine! And a new FaM feature (9)
05: Stress Control Redux (5)
04: Wee Hours Wandering (6)
03: Here’s something worth watching (1)
03: Back to the Future… (7)
01: Another Day, Another Dollar (3)

October 2010 (25)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Calculating the next year’s budgeting (9)
30: Must have it! (4)
29: Some changes made tooodayyy…. (5)
28: Yipe! BofA as Tarnished Goods (5)
26: America the Schismatic (2)
25: Worth a Thousand Words… (1)
24: Out & About (9)
22: Busted, Disgusted, and Cain’t Be Trusted… (7)
21: Gotta love those insurance companies… (6)
20: Around the world I’ve searched for you… (2)
19: First day of class! And a refinement on managing time (5)
18: Are You in the Middle Class? (11)
17: How to Choose the Perfect Office Chair (2)
16: Cool new blog metrics tool (8)
15: A brief lull, and an odd discovery (11)
14: The Divide by 4 Percent Rule? (6)
13: A pothole in the road to voc-ed (4)
12: Is Money Talk Rude? (8)
11: “Semester’s” end (2)
09: Where the jobs are…and aren’t (8)
07: Getting through a Social Security-free month (6)
05: Stormy Weather! (16)
04: Calculating the College Graduate’s Course of Action (13)
03: A Bible of Customer Service (2)
02: Time Management, Revisited (17)

September 2010 (28)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Want to buy that car? Don’t test-drive it! (12)
29: Maybe I’m too extreme about this…? (24)
28: The Winter Garden Is In! (6)
27: Higher Ed in Arizona: Soon to get even BETTER! (10)
26: Round-up Time (6)
25: Weird Frugalities (7)
24: Gold Bugs, Burglars, and a Way to Pay off Your Credit Cards… (1)
23: Managing a Variable Income: A bouquet of bank accounts (16)
21: Books (8)
20: Wages of Sin: Update (6)
19: An artist is born (6)
18: Shafted! (14)
17: Puttering around, catching up… (4)
14: Fear and Loathing in America the Beautiful (17)
13: The Fun of Thrift Stores (10)
12: The Green Beauty Guide (2)
11: Tiny Places of My Past (8)
10: Friday Torpor (3)
09: Hurrah! Summer’s almost over (6)
08: Real Estate: We thought it couldn’t get worse… (13)
06: Ant Wars: The Battle of the Front Stoop (12)
05: Lordie! This woman can write! (8)
04: Hurrah! Another One Is Back! (2)
04: Scraping by on $110,000? (23)
03: w00t! Murphy’s Law frenzy is over! (4)
03: UNbelievable! (11)
02: Moment of Fame (0)
01: The Summer of Murphy’s Law (5)

August 2010 (35)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: She’s Back! (0)
30: Auughhh, Part II: Gaaaaaaaaahhh! (3)
30: Auughhh! (6)
29: When I Said Best and Highest Use of a Swimming Pool… (0)
29: The (Not So) Good Old Days (5)
28: Pool! When spending a little extra makes a big difference (2)
27: Small but Alarming Indicator (3)
26: Finally shoveled out the pig-pen… (1)
25: Glory at the end of a devilish day (6)
23: Undisable cookies in Firefox? (10)
23: Ohhhhh M. G.! (2)
23: Shave and a Haircut… (5)
22: Dumb Tax: Monster Morning! (4)
21: Charging Costs to Your In-Home Business (9)
20: How volunteering can help your business (0)
20: Half-Off Challenge Day! (0)
19: Student Performance: Is there any question? (16)
18: Wake up from that dream! (7)
17: California Dreamin’ (21)
16: Financial Samurai launches special Yakezie blog (1)
16: Funny Launches a New Blog! (3)
15: Social Security’s Bizarre Rules (17)
14: Yard Sale FAIL! (6)
13: Clear the Fridge Soup: Roasted Red Bell Pepper Version (5)
12: The Half-Off Diet (6)
10: Programmable-free Electric Bill (6)
10: Why Eat at Home? (7)
09: Estate Sale Coup (6)
08: Real Estate: Don’t worry! Be happy! (3)
07: A Li’l Saturday Round-up (5)
05: Tiny Houses of Yesteryear (9)
04: In which I embrace my inner White Trash (9)
03: Control That Impulse (Buy)! (2)
02: Working Smarter: Applying a few insights (5)
01: w00t! Rain! And a moment to reflect (3)

July 2010 (40)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Frugal Habits: When routine maintenance saves a bundle (8)
31: Celebrating the Big Purchase (1)
30: Changes in Your Credit Card Statement (1)
29: A Dollar a Mile? (0)
29: Beautiful, beautiful place (1)
28: How Has YOUR Dollar Done This Decade? (13)
27: Blogging: It takes over your life (18)
27: Check Out This New Blog (1)
27: Interesting Day… (1)
25: When Is a Splurge a Good Thing? (6)
25: Yakeziites in Action (6)
24: Quick Summer Break…and maybe many more (2)
24: Password Security: Riffs on a neat idea (0)
22: Worth Bookmarking… (0)
21: CLICK! Why didn’t I think of this one before? (2)
20: Textbook Ripoffs: Why college leaves kids in debt (14)
19: Bargains and Such-a-Deals (2)
18: Urban Drama: The dollar, the mom, and the problem kid (2)
17: Figuring Out How to Work Smarter (9)
16: The Joy—and Value Received—of Community Colleges (1)
15: The Seven Silliest Money Stunts I’ve Ever Pulled (4)
14: Crickets and Bug Spray, Oh My! (6)
13: I need a vacation from retirement! (11)
12: Carnival of Personal Finance (31)
11: “Managed Recreation Opportunities”: Big Brother’s Slice of the Great Outdoors (3)
10: w00t!! Funny Breaks into the Top 100 (13)
10: Hot and Muggy! (1)
09: Safeway’s Got a Meat Sale (1)
09: The Burglar Jamboree: Nine Ways to Protect Yourself (8)
08: Blissful fantasies, early-morning daydreams (2)
07: Internet Shopping: When Is It Worth Paying Postage? (11)
06: Festival of Frugality (25)
06: Midnight at the Oasis… (0)
05: The Next Inn on the Journey of Life (8)
04: Shopping for the Pleistocene Set (0)
04: Update: How’s the Retread Working? (4)
03: Festival of Frugality Comin’ Our Way! (0)
02: Hotter Than a Two-Dollar Cookstove! (2)
02: Funny’s Corollary to Murphy’s Law (5)
01: Motivating People around Us: Six Ways to Better Customer Service (5)

June 2010 (41)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Health care, Woo-Woo, and the Spread of Superstition (5)
29: Endless Costs of Homeownership: Palm Trees (4)
28: Update: Vacuum cleaner adventures (9)
27: Happy Hoarder’s Handyman Hint! Frugal Junk Use (3)
26: Yakezie Roundup (5)
26: Update: Shoulder fiasco (1)
25: Arboricide Update (0)
25: Learn a Skill—ONLINE—and Build a New Income Stream (9)
24: Want Car. Want Car!! (9)
23: Little Orphant Annie’s Human Found! (10)
23: Doggy update (7)
22: How Do You Organize Your Budgeting? (12)
21: Just can’t believe it… (20)
20: Found Hound (9)
19: Funny on the Radio! (1)
19: Welcome to Calling All Cars Listeners (0)
19: Balancing the Budget on the Backs of the Vulnerable…Again! (0)
19: Arboricide (1)
18: The Boozicle (0)
18: Revise That Budget! (4)
17: And Now for Something Completely Different… (1)
17: Shopping around… (0)
16: Alexa: Wayyy kewl, but what does it mean? (7)
14: Elite Liberal Arts Education: Is it a rip? (19)
13: Death by 1000 tiny annoyances (8)
12: In the Company of Dogs (4)
11: Lazy Day Yakezie Roundup (8)
10: Are You Cut Out for a Freelance Job? Is Anyone? (14)
09: Return Policies: It pays to shop where they’re generous (8)
09: Sidestream Income: Have you read this guy’s amazing story? (9)
08: Emergency Preparedness for Your Pets (2)
07: Funny Joins the Yakezie Challenge (8)
07: A$k and Ye Shall Re¢eive (3)
07: Moment of Fame (1)
07: Back in the Red Again (2)
06: Three Don’t-Miss Personal Finance Posts, Plus One (2)
06: Summer’s here! (2)
05: You know you slept through the end of the Pleistocene when… (18)
04: Dogs: Like Another Hole in the Head… (4)
03: Interchange Legislation: How would you vote? (5)
01: Sunscreens: Be scared, be very scared! (8)

May 2010 (45)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Memorial Day 2010 (2)
31: Possible down time forthcoming (5)
30: Anybody Know How Well This Vacuum Works? (7)
30: Summer Budget: Very tight…like a noose around the neck (2)
30: This One Bears Watching! (0)
30: Haiku (3)
29: Are Your Name, Address, Phone Number, Income, and Credit Rating Being Broadcast to the Universe? (8)
29: DIY Veterinary: The dog-proof hot-spot bandage (12)
28: Glasses: You get what you pay for! (6)
28: How to Buy Your Next Car in Cash (10)
27: How a Frugal Find Helped End a Friendship (9)
27: Frugal Shopping at the Estate Sales (4)
26: How to Rescue a Scorched Pan—Easy! (12)
25: Police Presence and Property Values (5)
25: A PF Blogger’s Glass Ceiling? (64)
23: Choir Is Over… (0)
22: The Ultimate Church Potluck Dish (5)
21: Moment of Fame (0)
21: “United We Stand…” (4)
21: Where Do All the Shoppers Come From? (7)
20: Nail Protection: A pretty good product (3)
20: Ten Ways to Cope with a Budget Shortfall (8)
20: w00t! Carnival of Money Stories headed this way! (0)
19: Taxes, Government, the Tea Party, and America’s Way of Life (5)
19: Another Tax Hike! (4)
18: Open Office Users? (3)
17: Something Evil This Way Comes… (7)
17: Another Big Expense: Glasses (7)
16: Good Corps, Bad Corps… (5)
15: Free at last…to work some more (3)
14: w00t! School’s out!!! (0)
13: Another Day at the Grade Inflation Factory (5)
12: Surprise! Money happens again (2)
11: The Cat’s-claw That Ate Philadelphia (0)
10: Serendipitous Stock Market Fluke…i think… (2)
09: Line-drying the Laundry (10)
08: A Degree from a Proprietary School? Is it worth the cost? (2)
07: Gimme that ole-time real food… (5)
06: What a Day! (3)
06: OMG…Never rains but it pours (2)
05: Beer Substitute! (5)
04: Health and Dollars: A challenge (8)
04: Return of the Creature! (0)
02: Income Streams/Savings Streams (2)
01: w00t! Money about to happen? (0)

April 2010 (38)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: It LIVES! (5)
30: Link Love… (3)
29: Sad news (4)
28: The future of residential real estate (8)
27: Drummers (6)
26: Solar and rocket stoves: Survival Gear…Frugal Extreme…or Just Going Green? (7)
25: Head-banging in the corporate bureaucracy (2)
24: Only a slightly nightmarish day… (3)
24: Buyer Beware: A close look at the bill (6)
24: Two hectic—and expensive!—days (16)
21: Summertime, and…what am I gonna do, anyway? (11)
20: Cost of commuting (15)
19: Sold! Real estate returns to normal in our neighborhood (7)
18: 20 Great Time-Wasters of My Life (10)
16: Women’s Work: A Manifesto (15)
15: So…you thought YOU were having a bad hair day? (2)
15: Decoding the Tax Code (1)
14: Government Long-term Care Coverage: Better than nothing? (4)
13: w00t! New hairstylist found! (3)
13: Bye-bye, Bag Lady Syndrome (4)
12: Why I have a dog… (6)
12: How Middle-Class Are You? (14)
11: Why Being Passionate about Your Career Can Drive You Nuts (14)
10: Hidden costs of illness or injury (6)
10: Kids & Costs: Another point of view (8)
09: Can Minimizing Go Too Far? (19)
08: Buying Futures at the Supermarket: Groceries as investment (5)
07: March Madness Results Are Up! (2)
07: w00t! A win! (3)
07: Spring in Arizona (2)
06: Five frugal ways to entertain the kids (3)
05: Anybody wanna write a guest post? (13)
03: The Queen Is in Her Counting House… (9)
02: w00t! Cash shows up! (2)
02: Just when you think it’s safe to go back in the water… (0)
01: Drama of the Day: A hummer! (0)
01: And the layoff beat goes on… (1)
01: “Check’s in the Mail”: The checks that never return (8)

March 2010 (42)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Money Happens: Planning ahead through 2011 (5)
31: The Three A.M. Waltz (2)
30: Vote now if you haven’t yet! (0)
30: General quotidian miseries (4)
29: w00t! We’re at the FINAL FOUR round! (0)
28: Odorless, stingless sunscreen (1)
27: Taxpayer confusion (2)
27: LOL! You can’t make this stuff up (1)
26: This just in: VOTE! (0)
25: Sure you wanna go on that cruise? (6)
24: How’s the economic stress level in your parts? (10)
23: Vote, vote, vote! (0)
22: Vote for Funny in the next round of FMF’s March Madness! (3)
22: What’s this? (7)
21: In the money happens department… (2)
20: An attack of asceticism (6)
19: Stuff! Where to find storage space for it (1)
18: Walking Away from a Mortgage: Is it immoral? (7)
17: Apple: I think i’m in love… (0)
17: Financial Freedom: Building the bankroll, part 2 (3)
16: Good grief! Near-disaster with Medicare Part D choice (5)
16: Medicare Part D: Another adventure in Wonderland (2)
15: Financial Freedom: Building the bankroll, part 1 (2)
14: Purchases! (7)
14: Giveaway! (1)
13: School’s Out! (briefly…) (4)
12: March Madness: THIS WEEKEND! (0)
12: Moments of (Belated) Fame (2)
12: March Madness, Round 2! (0)
11: Don’t Panic: A sign of light (2)
09: Medicare, Medigap, and Long-Term Care Premiums: How deductible are they? (5)
08: New refinement on Year 1 retirement strategy (8)
07: Are CFLs all they’re cracked up to be? (12)
06: Return-of-Premium Insurance: Is it a good idea? (2)
05: Cassie, Coyotes, Students, and Bumhood (3)
04: Costco rocks! (3)
04: Hoot! Check this out! (0)
04: FDA stirs in its sleep (0)
03: Oops! Easy on the RoC de-wrinkle stuff! (5)
02: Ominous development (5)
02: Financial Freedom: Own the roof over your head (7)
01: Lord, it’s hard to be humble… (5)

February 2010 (38)
Detailed Monthly Archive

28: What happened to newspaper journalism? (5)
28: El Niño: The long rains (1)
27: w00t! Money happens! (10)
26: Consumer-Proof Packaging? Make the retailer open it! (6)
26: Costco Gas Pumps: Not all created equal (3)
25: All that no-penny-pinching bravura aside… (0)
25: w00t! March Madness win! (2)
25: Big-picture thinking and the penny-pincher (9)
25: The great mineral make-up experiment (8)
24: Sartorial Elegance: Thrift store edition (9)
23: VOTE for Funny at March Madness! (3)
22: Bingo! Loan modification scored (5)
22: February Budget: On target (0)
21: Shopping in the Commissary: Would it save anything? (3)
20: Early Retirement: The health insurance hurdle (3)
19: Good-bye to all that… (8)
19: Property tax statement arrives (0)
18: A letter to the Phoenix City Council (2)
17: Another backyard project under way (6)
16: Rant: Costco’s consumer-proof packaging (16)
15: Stumbled Upon: Still think nuclear power is the lesser of the evils? (0)
15: Financial Freedom: Escape from debt and build savings (5)
14: Beautiful! (2)
14: Not one but TWO giveaways!! (0)
13: Time for a retread! (7)
12: Another sad day for academe (5)
11: Prius: The road not taken (6)
11: Every Writer Needs an Editor! (2)
10: Good news for one of the young people (2)
09: Low-key and DIY burglar repellents (1)
08: Tracking down an insurance policy (1)
07: A couple of small household hints (7)
05: Here come the new taxes… (11)
04: Odd$ and End$ (4)
03: January outgo (5)
02: Another Round of the Bureaucrat’s Waltz (4)
01: throttled (0)
01: Real estate prices, in progress (0)

January 2010 (40)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Day of simple riches (4)
31: Funny’s b-a-a-c-k! (0)
30: We don’t need no steenking laundry detergent… (70)
29: Running around COBRA’s barn again (10)
28: Should you pay off your mortgage? (13)
27: Recovery? Will even part-time work be there in 2011? (0)
27: And speaking of buildings and renovation… (0)
26: More Kitchenry (1)
26: Gas prices edging upward (4)
25: Financial Freedom: Work (1)
23: All Alone and Amok in the Kitchen (0)
23: Thank You, Mrs. Micah! (2)
23: Kitchens (2)
21: Typhoon! Are you insured? (0)
21: Weather (6)
20: w00t! Under budget!!! (2)
19: My Error! (0)
18: How much paper do you keep? (6)
18: Carnival of Money Stories: Springtime in Arizona Edition (22)
17: Tomorrow: Money Stories! March Madness! (0)
17: How to Move Your Money (3)
16: Why I moved my money to a credit union (3)
15: Nope… Money unhappens (1)
15: Did money just happen? (2)
14: What a day! (3)
13: Flypaper: It gets stickier! (5)
13: Are you part of the lost generation? (0)
13: Carnival of Money Stories comin’ our way (0)
12: Trying to escape from flypaper (2)
11: Please, Big Brother: Protect me from myself! (1)
10: Listomania (6)
09: Entrepreneurs: Adirondack Chimney Sweep (4)
08: Funny is chosen for March Madness (0)
07: Mortgage loan modification strategy (16)
06: Pool a-filling (0)
04: Financial Freedom: Education and training (8)
03: The accidental frugalist (1)
03: New Year’s Screwup… (3)
02: Financial Freedom: An Overview (5)
01: Happy New Year! What are your goals? (5)

December 2009 (36)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Kill-the-Beaster Logic (1)
29: Exit, Stage Left: Goodbye to Arizona State University (6)
28: When DIY doesn’t save much (8)
27: Bumhood: The fruits of financial freedom (7)
27: Moment of Fame (0)
26: State of Arizona Employ: Goodbye, so long, adios! (1)
26: Christmas! (0)
25: How the Crockpot Scalloped Potatoes Worked Out (0)
24: Happy Blogiversary to Funny! (2)
23: Decluttering: What to do with the electronic junk? (7)
22: 2009 budget wrap (10)
22: I knew it… (2)
21: Here’s a cool blogging idea… (0)
21: Surviving in penury (1)
20: Ginger-Pineapple Punch (0)
19: Big doin’s comin’ up! (1)
18: Freedom’s just another word… (2)
18: Share your favorite Christmas recipe! (1)
17: Christmas Recipe: Crockpot scalloped potatoes, hold the canned soup (8)
16: w00t! Free flu shots!! (0)
16: On the first day of freedom… (6)
15: The joy of students (3)
14: Freedom! (4)
13: Revanche on the secret joy of unemployment (12)
12: Update: deQuickening (0)
11: A visit to Richistan (0)
11: Quicken: Jumping ship (0)
10: Macquisition (4)
09: Trees (5)
08: Weather! (9)
07: Computers (10)
06: Sleep! (1)
05: Sons (6)
04: Gone! (4)
03: When Giving Goes Awry (14)
01: No end in sight… (1)

November 2009 (31)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Perfectionism: Is it perfect? (4)
29: Some days it’s not worth getting out of bed… (8)
28: Seven painless ways to save (3)
27: Most coveted junk (3)
26: How to get rich on Black Friday (1)
25: Rent-a-solar-panel (5)
24: Let us count our blessings (3)
23: Would you buy a house near a Walmart? (4)
22: Paper (0)
21: What’s more important than a Costco card? (1)
21: Assets reviving (2)
20: Do you use all your vacation time? (13)
19: Why I secretly feel glad my job is ending… (1)
18: Where does the junk come from? (0)
17: Who’s that comin’ down the street? Someone who’s hungry! (4)
16: Coming down to the finish line… (2)
15: Budget: Positive news (3)
14: Wish I’d written that… (4)
13: Shopping estate sales for deals (4)
12: Ghost developments (3)
11: Die cast… (2)
10: A whole flock of chickens (3)
09: Managing a large workload (4)
08: Median income, median savings? (0)
06: So this is retirement? (4)
06: Job interview?!? (3)
05: Six steps to a frugal little Christmas (5)
04: Ads: Credit report monitoring scam (4)
03: Tempus fidgets (2)
02: Wow! Real estate update… (0)
01: The highest and best use of a swimming pool (1)

October 2009 (32)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Ghost stories (3)
30: Zombie consumerism may take book publishing down (2)
29: w00t! Budget success!!! (3)
28: Get OFF the flickin’ PHONE! (5)
27: Mansef: A Middle-Eastern feast dish (2)
26: Another little roommate (8)
25: Neighborly Hallowe’en (1)
24: How dumping your credit cards can keep you on budget… (8)
23: Time to dump the credit cards? (5)
22: Real estate prices gone nuts (3)
21: Chuck roasts, cheap: Safeway (1)
21: Cherry soup (0)
20: Theme Days, Reconsidered (4)
19: House Maintenance: What you get for a thousand bucks (8)
18: Ethical? Charging what the (charitable) market will bear… (2)
17: Theme Days: A way to organize time (5)
16: Prognostications (0)
15: Real Estate: What does the future hold? (6)
14: How does your (financial) garden grow? (2)
13: Reprojecting next year’s income (1)
12: Teaching without tools (10)
11: Love in the time of influenza (1)
10: Update: COBRA, RASL (1)
09: Another fun day at Human Resources (5)
08: Best phone solicitor story of all time (2)
07: A$k and Re¢eive, Revisited (2)
06: Hamburger: 12 ways to keep your family safe (5)
05: You want whiskey with that? (0)
04: Winter garden y-cumin’ in! (1)
03: 25 awesome sites for personal finance buffs (1)
02: Dog Adoption: A near miss (7)
01: Do you have to be wealthy to be financially independent? (4)

September 2009 (34)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: How long will it take to pay off that credit-card debt? (1)
29: Festival of Frugality (21)
28: Adopting a Dog from a Private Party: 20 questions to ask (7)
27: “Socialist” health care beats out private insurance (2)
26: w00t! Festival of Frugality comin’ our way! (1)
26: Google grabs authors’ works (5)
25: Truth, the highest thing that man may keep (12)
24: Why you should become a teacher (2)
23: “New” car heaves into view (0)
22: Tasty fig morsels (4)
21: Living within your means is good for the economy (5)
20: You need to know about this one: Corporation harasses blogger (4)
20: {gasp!} Property tax bill (0)
19: Recession “Over”: Will you spend more now? (3)
18: Hectic week (3)
17: Life in the big city (0)
16: OTC Drugs: Not necessarily harmless (3)
15: Man with $191,300 job pronounces recession over (3)
15: How much financial help to give a family member? (5)
14: Why is the grass never greener…? (0)
13: Repurcussions of the fall (7)
12: Frugal Cosmetics: Lemons for your beauty routine (5)
11: If I Had It to Do Over: 10 money moves I’d do differently (10)
10: Facing unemployment: The emotional effects, the business consequences (6)
09: Update: Cool vintage carving set (0)
08: Free entertainment (2)
07: Update: Soda ash frolic (0)
06: Money happens! (4)
05: Estate-saling in a tropical storm (2)
04: On blogging and money (10)
03: Mexican water (6)
02: How bad public policy and other people’s foolishness cost you and me (7)
01: Ecologically friendly give-away contest (2)
01: How to deal with ants (4)

August 2009 (39)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Weekend pool frolics: Soda ash edition (5)
30: The glories of an honest mechanic (1)
29: Declutter! Clear your life of wasteful trash (5)
28: Retirement/unemployment: A slightly brighter light (1)
28: Fizzy lemonade (4)
27: How much was that dollar worth? Interesting money tool (11)
26: Earth to GOP: Define health-care “rationing”…rationally, please (9)
25: First day of class… (2)
24: No wonder community college faculty women dress like a million bucks (3)
23: Preparing for the worst (5)
22: The perils of adjunct faculty (2)
22: A$K… (0)
21: Penny-wise and pound-foolish! (3)
20: Car upkeep! (7)
20: w00t! Nice moment of fame (0)
19: What IS frugality? (4)
18: Quinoa: Pretty good! (5)
17: Saved! Benefits cover without bankrupting (1)
17: Landscaping job wraps up (1)
17: Too cute to be believed! (0)
16: Toothless credit card consumer protection laws (1)
16: Bosch dishwasher recall (9)
15: A little massaging of figures (0)
14: Do you do mail-in rebates? (2)
13: Recession kills off local merchants (3)
11: Greener Grass? To move or not to move (3)
10: Delayed Gratification: The frugalist’s secret weapon (6)
09: RIP $64 butternut squash (4)
08: Confirmed: Programmable thermostat RAISES power bills! (5)
08: Funny knocks off Paul’s geeky air-conditioner (3)
07: Retirement healthcare update (3)
07: Healthcare: The clinker for retirement plans (4)
06: Worry: What’s our beloved employer up to now? (4)
05: Cash for Clunkers: A boondoggle? (4)
04: Pay off debt or build savings? (1)
03: The Carnival of Money Stories (10)
02: Real estate as investment (4)
01: Furlough’s end (0)
01: More house costs (0)

July 2009 (43)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Too much debt? Sell your house and rent it back! (3)
31: Best of July 2009 (0)
30: Choir! (0)
29: Stress Control: Second insight (5)
28: When real estate is funnier than real life… (3)
28: Stress Control: First insight (2)
27: Moment of Fame (2)
27: Help!! Frugal trick creates big mess (13)
27: The Twilight Zone (0)
26: Is a vegetable garden cost-effective? (10)
26: Check out Funny’s guest post at Frugal Being Green! (0)
25: Easy pool-cleaning shortcut (0)
25: How We Get in Trouble: Sensitivity and nonmonthly expenses (2)
24: Five frugal things you can do for yourself today (0)
23: Mr. President! Mr. President! (0)
22: Holy water bill, Batman! (0)
21: Life, the universe, and all that money (1)
20: High-pressure car salesmen find new jobs (0)
19: Unholy water bill (2)
18: Can your employer top this? (0)
17: Update: How deferred compensation works with Social Security (0)
16: Breaking up is hard to do… (4)
16: Kiddie nudes: Where was the editor? (5)
15: The dance of the adjunct faculty (1)
14: A post with no title: What can one say? (5)
13: Other people’s pets (5)
12: Money happens… (5)
11: The not-enough-long-green blues (3)
10: The DIY Dog Food Chef: Should you feed bones to your dog? (1)
09: Foil debit card hacking and balance inquiries (8)
09: Update: Programmable thermostat vs. electric bill (0)
08: If you’re in debt… (7)
07: Impromptu shrimp curry (4)
07: Retirement planner yields interesting discovery (0)
07: State budgeteers continue to wrangle (0)
06: Shopping frolics; budget strategizing (0)
05: Homo profligus rides again (1)
05: Olive oil soothes sore, cracked heels and callused feet (5)
04: Happy Fourth of July! (0)
03: What’s a master’s degree worth? (19)
03: Is this for reals? (1)
01: Sky still in place (0)
01: You couldn’t make this stuff up! (0)

June 2009 (50)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Education: We are what we sow (4)
30: Get (re)organized: A better way to store current paperwork (1)
30: w00t! More good stuff! (3)
30: Good for another two weeks (0)
29: Borrowing Trouble: Planning for a government shutdown (1)
28: Economy Is Politics: Arizona’s politico-economic disaster (2)
28: Identity Theft: Three ways to fight it (11)
27: Microbudgeting: A new refinement (3)
26: Legislators in moronic game of chicken (0)
26: The final annual review (2)
26: Real Estate: Resale market looking better (0)
25: Woo-HOO! Major estate sale triumph (4)
25: Entrepreneurs: Your Auto Network (6)
24: Tomorrow: Birth of a new series (1)
24: Beloved Yard Dude Back, & Other Quotidian Stuff (2)
23: Stress Control: Identifying rational and irrational causes of angst (2)
22: Beloved Yard Dude Gone (2)
21: Food of Frankenstein (2)
21: The high cost of Medicare (10)
20: Wonderful dinner (3)
19: Older houses: Living better with less? (7)
18: Planning for layoff-induced “retirement” (6)
18: Budget shattered (0)
17: Support Iranian voters (0)
17: There’s Costco…and then there’s Costco (3)
17: Dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century (0)
16: Caught in the act! (11)
15: More on journalism’s Cheshire cat (1)
15: Over budget! (2)
14: The long, slow death of journalism (2)
13: Pedro’s Curry (1)
13: Mormons to the rescue! (5)
13: Thermostat update (1)
12: Figuring out what you want to be when you grow up: The Prioritizer! (2)
11: Apply for a job halfway across the country? (10)
10: Programmable Thermostats: Aren’t they supposed to save on power? (4)
09: The attack of the midnight skulkers (4)
09: To renew or not to renew… (6)
09: Chance has fishes!! (1)
09: How to keep the customers coming back (2)
08: Sears Credit Card: A new fast one from MasterCard (12)
08: Purchases! (0)
06: Missing unemployment payment accounted for (11)
06: Beet & Rice Salad (1)
06: Let’s get this jerk (7)
04: The bankrupt are not like us(?) (10)
03: Bureaucracy redux (1)
02: Buying a car? Watch out for rips (2)
01: Go figure! (1)
01: Fight a-brewing over COBRA (1)

May 2009 (37)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Ikea break! (5)
30: Panzanella: Use-it-up Italian comfort food (7)
29: Fight a-brewing over COBRA (5)
28: Get those estimates! (1)
27: Student Loans: Whither young college graduates? (5)
26: Good-bye old receipts, hello dinner (1)
25: Carnival of Personal Finance (0)
25: INSIGHT! Thinking outside the (digital converter) box (1)
24: The High Cost of Culture: 16 low-cost routes to the better life (5)
23: How to raise the hair on your head (0)
22: The great no-‘poo experiment! (5)
21: A little frugality goes a long way (1)
20: Two new blogs (2)
19: Credit card companies to penalize “freeloaders”: What’s your plan? (17)
18: 109 in the shade! (5)
17: w00t! Times has PF frenzy! (1)
17: Sumer is y-cumin’ in (4)
16: Your megacorporation “values” your business (0)
15: Incorporating for fun and profit (2)
14: Reno loan GONE! (9)
13: Optional frugality (7)
12: Shamelessly using Roundup, and other ungreen confessions (9)
11: Ridiculous day, so far… (0)
10: Transfer Limits on Savings Accounts: Or, why I love my credit union (1)
09: Flaws in WHOSE health care system??? (0)
08: What’s your favorite comfort food? (0)
08: Right-wing legislators, pushed to the wall, raise taxes (0)
08: Life in the Post-Recession Era: The third-worldization of America (6)
07: Where’s “Is Frugality Un-American”? (1)
07: Sick as a dawg (2)
06: Community Colleges: Baby-boomer nirvana (4)
05: Carnival of Money Stories is back! (1)
05: Budgeting and strategies for saving (4)
04: DIY splendor! (3)
04: Saving: Every little bit helps (5)
02: Recreational Shopping: A change of habit (7)
01: Home Security: Cheap (sorta) burglar discouragement (1)

April 2009 (47)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Utterly Deadly Pecan Pie (1)
29: Zillowing around Phoenix (2)
28: Life at the Funny Farm: This and that (1)
27: Layoff: The emotional journey (3)
26: Five ways to deal with stress (4)
25: The Magic Touch: Gadgetry review (5)
24: Vendor Chutzpah: Leslie’s loses customer (1)
24: Early Social Security: A way around the earnings limit (85)
23: Laid-off Employee to Boss: Think again! (0)
23: w00t! Funny lives! (3)
22: Getting closer! (0)
22: Still in transit… (2)
21: Bankbooks and Financial Records: Things people say about themselves (3)
21: Should I bother with trying to save my job? (6)
20: Funny switches servers tomorrow (0)
20: 10 ways to layoff-proof your life (4)
19: Connectivity: Is Twitter a sign of poverty? (4)
18: Best month on budget so far! (4)
17: What d’you want to hear on NPR? (1)
17: Potatoes ‘n’ cheese (7)
17: Yay! Cox rocks! (2)
17: Funnier and funnier! (0)
16: Holding pattern… (0)
15: One door closes; another opens (4)
14: Train: Less than awesome. Blue Funk: Amazing (8)
14: Debt-to-Income Ratio: Frugalist begs to differ (4)
13: Riding the train for fun and profit (1)
13: Real Estate: Looking up? (2)
12: DIY Deodorant (4)
12: Laughingstock postscript (2)
11: GDU Defends Status as Champion Laughingstock of North America (5)
11: Light rail is AWESOME! (8)
11: Economy is all about politics (2)
10: Olive Oil: The ultimate skin cleanser (39)
10: A day to unwind (4)
09: Funny to go commercial (4)
08: A few spots of light (8)
07: Was Dorothy Parker prescient? (5)
06: Applying for Jobs Online: Isn’t technology supposed to make our lives easier? (2)
06: Financial Records: Keep them forever! (5)
05: Garden as income stream (7)
04: Stimulus program makes COBRA affordable (2)
03: Layoff: Getting by in unwilling retirement (7)
03: Spending big before the layoff (3)
02: Stockpiling scheme pays off (3)
01: Freaking God’s miracle! (6)
01: Microbudgeting: Keep costs under control with a baby-steps budget (5)

March 2009 (48)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Income stream sighted (4)
30: Is this worse than we think, even? (1)
30: How IT put “apps” into job applications (8)
29: Funny is on Twitter (4)
29: Mortgages: Is a 30-year mortgage better than a 15-year loan? (3)
28: Perfect retirement day (6)
27: Staying solvent in penury (17)
27: Résumés on the wind! (1)
26: Ax falls but…uhm…bounces? (13)
26: A layoff strategy (1)
25: Uh oh! Watch this space… (5)
25: Moments of Fame (1)
24: Buy! (1)
24: Make It from Scratch Carnival (8)
23: w00t! A lagniappe! (2)
22: Use caution when making DIY laundry detergent (9)
22: Is it time to punt? (11)
22: Anna’s Biscuits (1)
21: As the twig is bent… (3)
21: Make It from Scratch Carnival coming this way (0)
20: Finding a human at a corporation that repels all boarders (2)
20: WTF? Doesn’t anyone hear that alarm going off??? (8)
19: Tough times (2)
18: ‘Nother Moment (0)
18: The Worst Financial Mistake You Didn’t Make (14)
17: Moments of Fame (2)
17: Frugality, savings, and the causes of doom (10)
16: Single-handedly rescuing the economy (9)
15: What’s that light at the end of the tunnel? (7)
14: More on unemployment insurance ripoffs (5)
13: What’s “groceries,” anyway? (9)
13: Slow Money: Countercultural thinker may have something…or not (1)
12: Life in the Big City (3)
11: A Sucker for Packaging (6)
11: Moments of Fame (3)
10: A Close Brush with Financial Disaster (8)
09: Alternative fabric softener and laundry de-static stuff (14)
08: The Grocery Pool: So far, so good (1)
08: At the Farmer’s Market (2)
07: w00t! Tax refund (0)
07: Automatic payment vs. EFT bill paying (5)
06: Cheap Eats: Impromptu Swiss chard toss-together (3)
06: No Crash Here: Riches in the Department of What Matters (7)
05: Snail-mail vs. electronic payment (8)
03: Shared Work Unemployment Insurance Story: It gets better! (6)
03: Pit bulls, dog fights, and real estate (9)
02: Budgeting for “extraordinary” costs (2)
01: Quickie potato recipe (1)

February 2009 (34)
Detailed Monthly Archive

28: Networking (4)
27: Unemployment + Chase Bank = Hell on Wheels (33)
27: Security Doors: Yea or nay? (8)
26: AMEX kickback comes through, and surprises (2)
25: Cheap Eats: Grilled pork tenderloin (2)
24: Word from On High: Stay Calm (3)
23: Moments of Fame (1)
22: Food Futures! Three-month stash grubstaked (14)
21: “Job Happiness”: The oxymoron of the century (8)
19: Money, dollars, numbers, stress (0)
18: “Shared Work”: It has some advantages (3)
17: Consumer Reports: Renew, or not? (1)
16: Layoff Poker: Will the bosses tip their hand? (1)
15: The grocery pool (15)
14: Place-holder: More food! (2)
13: Got a freezer? Now’s the time to stock up (8)
13: Creepy, creepy night (0)
12: How do we deserve these morons? (2)
11: Should I apply for unemployment? (10)
11: Moments of Fame (2)
10: State legislators get their way (6)
09: If I were queen of the world… (0)
08: Zillow is full of beans (4)
07: Sweet potato-carrot soup (5)
07: Do no-buy days work? (5)
06: Money Stories Carnival in progress (1)
06: Cost-effective ride? (6)
05: The cleaning lady jamboree (1)
04: And did I mention we were through the looking glass? (1)
04: Cleaning lady layoff day (3)
03: On the Mountain (5)
02: Moment of Fame (2)
01: Ten Great Improvements that Aren’t (5)
01: My job is toast (6)

January 2009 (52)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Busy day today (0)
30: Carnival of Personal Finance Comin’ Our Way (0)
30: Teapot’s tempest loses steam (1)
29: Update on layoff vs. retirement benefits (4)
29: Early practice for early retirement (3)
28: Furloughed! Parboil the fruits before canning? (8)
28: Moments of Fame (2)
27: Ten stress reducers (2)
26: Monkeywrench lands in layoff plan (6)
26: Humane, inexpensive dog collar (5)
25: Personal finance IS politics (7)
24: Cheapskate’s landscaping (9)
23: Coyote bait (6)
23: Eeek! Don’t mess with the RSS feed! (2)
23: RSS feed changed to summary (6)
23: Credit cards, debit cards, cash cards (7)
22: Domani! (0)
21: Moments of Fame (5)
21: Health Insurance: Is your employer paying its part? (3)
20: Layoff Plans: Use savings or start Social Security? (2)
20: A new day dawns (2)
20: Integrity, Confidence, and Trust: A financial manager’s view of the economy and the future (3)
18: The perqs of pinching pennies (11)
17: Win 6 months of the W. St. J. (0)
17: The devastation of higher education in Arizona (2)
17: Bye, Little TV Set; Bye, Evening NewsHour (7)
16: Legislators propose to shoot us all in the foot (6)
15: Feeling bored? Check this out (0)
15: Moments of Fame (5)
14: Later! (1)
13: LOL! Georgie, we’ll miss ya! (2)
13: Can’t sell the house? Try swapping (2)
12: Taxes! PeopleSoft! Garrrrhhhhh! (2)
11: Not bankrupt after all? (2)
10: Flummoxed! (4)
09: Space heater works to save on power bills (10)
09: Snookered! (4)
09: Trade Made: Discount scored (1)
08: How incredibly lucky… (0)
08: Hamburger helpless (4)
07: Moments of Fame (4)
07: More shoes…cheap! (6)
06: Shoes (8)
05: She who squawks gets (3)
04: Cheap, easy spot remover (6)
04: A modest proposal… (5)
03: Amazon gift certificate on offer (0)
03: Read that contract! (5)
02: Now that we’re grown-ups, too… (0)
02: DIY Window Cleaner: Pro and con (2)
02: Darn! Not canned, after all (0)
01: Another day, another year (0)

December 2008 (44)
Detailed Monthly Archive

31: Hoppin’ John: Black-eyed peas for New Year’s luck (4)
30: 2008 Financial Strategies: What worked and what didn’t work (2)
30: Moments of Fame (1)
28: Read your credit card statement carefully! (3)
28: Frugal Household Hack: Conserve dish soap (0)
28: Making less…less (2)
27: Decluttered and recluttered (9)
26: Today’s PF Post at The Copyeditor’s Desk: Freelance fees (0)
26: Jobs we’re glad we don’t have (0)
25: w00t! Merry Christmas! (1)
24: Funny is one year old! (7)
23: Moments of Fame (6)
23: Volunteer! (1)
22: Real Wealth II (3)
21: Two DIY mesh bag hacks (3)
20: SVB giving away awesome printer (0)
20: Do me a favor, please… (7)
20: Posting bookmarks online (2)
19: Cleaning help scored! (3)
18: Clutter as mental illness (3)
17: Christmas dinner plans (2)
16: Privacy: It’s none of their business (4)
16: Moments of Fame (2)
16: Rain! (0)
15: Seven frugal things to do (or not) when you don’t feel good (3)
14: Karma heads south in the afternoon (2)
14: Yard Sale, II (1)
13: Planned obsolescence (9)
12: Yard sale adventures (3)
11: Wah! I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up (5)
10: Why keep your pay statements, and how (4)
10: Moments of Fame (6)
09: OK, Respected Dudes: Are we laid off or not? (1)
09: Power use cut—energy conserved! (3)
08: w00t! Spring has sprung in Arizona (4)
07: Monthly budget updated; enforced “retirement” planned for (1)
06: Long-term care insurance (4)
05: Thinking of turning your blog into a book? (0)
04: Spectacular ending to a difficult day (2)
04: Cheap frames (5)
03: Single in a couples culture (7)
02: Get the mat to fit your artwork (5)
02: Moments of Fame (4)
01: Inexcusable! FDA betrays public trust (3)

November 2008 (44)
Detailed Monthly Archive

30: Turning what you love to do into a second income stream (11)
29: ‘Nother moment of fame (0)
29: Dow up, in spite of it all (5)
28: Black Friday: To plunge into the maelstrom or not to plunge? (3)
27: How to make real cranberry sauce (0)
26: Watch out for “sales” that aren’t (4)
26: Through the looking-glass in Layoff-Land (2)
25: The 86th Carnival of Money Stories (9)
24: Moments of Fame (5)
23: Awww, C’mon! Am I really that dumb? (6)
22: Costco and the Single Girl (2)
21: Carnival coming this way… (0)
20: Real brown gravy (3)
20: Are Margaret & Helen for reals? (6)
19: Fast & easy one-dish meal… (2)
19: Foreclosure: Not all bad (0)
18: Tip’d is official (0)
17: Is frugality unAmerican? (12)
17: Moments of Fame (5)
16: Stuff tsunami (1)
15: A little disaster in the backyard (5)
14: Pennies saved… (2)
14: Olive Oil: The miracle skin cleanser (80)
13: Bees! (6)
12: A few neat sites… (3)
12: Bidding Up House Prices: A new illusion? (0)
11: Dear Sir (You Cur): How to complain in writing (2)
10: When foreclosure makes things better…maybe (1)
10: Work is a place… (4)
10: Moments of Fame (0)
09: * sigh II * (3)
08: * sigh * (1)
07: PAINT!!!! (3)
06: Planning to be poor (10)
05: A New Plan: Retirement (0)
04: w00t!!! (1)
04: Moments of Fame (1)
03: Real estate market heats up (?) (3)
02: Is that bargain food safe to eat? (2)
02: Gerardo the Heroic (2)
01: Get better hamburger, cheaper (1)
01: Woot! Apple shines! (4)
01: Off to the computer vet… (0)
01: Hallowe’en: “It’s the neighborhood” (2)

October 2008 (43)
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30: Multitasking: A young person’s game? (2)
29: Mysteries of blogging (1)
29: Qwest update (6)
28: Moments of Fame (2)
28: Another day, another dollar (1)
26: Cassie’s dog treats (6)
26: Consumer Headaches: 15 ways to get help (4)
24: How the garden grows! (3)
23: Qwest: The saga that will not end (8)
22: What’s your conspiracy theory? (2)
22: Discombobulated (0)
21: Layoff fears surface again (4)
21: Moments of Fame (1)
21: w00t! Weed Arboretum is no more! (3)
20: Cheap Eats: Albondigas soup (4)
19: Eight strategies to protect your home’s value when neighbors are foreclosed (2)
19: Believe it! And then some… (3)
18: Foreclosed: Postscript (2)
16: Welcome, MSN Smart Spending Readers! (0)
16: Foreclosing on the neighbors (8)
16: Luddite Speaks: Deep-six gadgetry (4)
15: Qwest redux: How do these companies stay in business? (1)
14: Foreclosed! (1)
13: Layoffs? Market crash? Great Depression II? (0)
13: Moments of Fame (1)
12: w00t! Sumer is y-goin’ out (0)
11: Cheap Eats: White bean salad (3)
11: The Hallowe’en grinch (5)
10: Battening down in the hurricane (3)
10: Blowin’ in the wind… (0)
09: Rumors redux (0)
08: Another day, another dollar… (4)
08: Interview No. 1 (6)
07: Dumb tax (0)
07: Moments of Fame (2)
07: How low can I go? (4)
06: Some vacation… (0)
05: Beating the layoff stress (2)
04: On the trail of the elusive job… (6)
02: DIY Dog Food: Spend a little more and get a lot more (11)
02: Moments of Fame (2)
01: Baby oil as cabinet cleaner (1)
01: Rumors start to fly (5)

September 2008 (43)
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30: Does any of this have meaning for individuals? (5)
29: Nifty new toy (1)
27: Thinking about publishing a book? (2)
26: Cutting costs or wasting time? (2)
26: Unemployment for Christmas? (10)
24: Funny to host Carnival of Money Stories (0)
24: Times sez retiring set scared (6)
23: Small glimmer of light in the tunnel (1)
23: Moments of Fame (2)
22: The least important bill (11)
21: Hold the dish detergent, please (5)
20: FDIC Runs Low: Credit unions unaffected (0)
20: Belated Moment of Fame (2)
19: No-shop days boost frugality (3)
18: Financial Advisor to Investor: Don’t panic! (2)
17: Money market drops below a dollar a share (3)
16: Recession moves in to the front yard (1)
16: Scary times (0)
15: Why are we paying for this? (3)
15: Decluttering for fun and profit (3)
13: Lemon and vinegar highlight your hair (2)
13: Seven technological wonders I wish we had (2)
13: Why didn’t I think of that? (2)
12: Make It from Scratch Carnival comin’ up (0)
12: Counterintuitive Advice: Borrow to the hilt (3)
12: What happens when a live Qwest guy shows up (0)
10: LOL! Forget that! (0)
10: Cute little house (1)
10: In the wells of silence (4)
09: Costco scores in customer service (2)
09: Moments of Fame (5)
08: Saved from my own fecklessness (0)
07: To move or not to move…and if so, where? (1)
07: Thank goodness! And . . . gasp! (0)
06: Unbundled! Qwest strikes again (4)
04: What’s an intellectual worker’s real overhead? (6)
04: In the Night Kitchen (4)
03: Sploggers get rich quick off your work (0)
03: Lose some pounds, keep some bucks (4)
02: Best jobs, worst jobs (1)
02: Carnival of Money Stories: Labor Day Edition (10)
01: * sigh * (2)
01: Moments of Fame (4)

August 2008 (40)
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31: Ikea: Better than bricks and boards? (10)
30: The limits of automatic bill-paying (1)
29: Wow! Major storm hits lovely uptown Phoenix (2)
29: 25 strategies for more affordable living (3)
29: A tiger of a storm (0)
28: “We Value Your Business”: Reaching a person at a company that doesn’t want to be reached (5)
28: Back again…temporarily? (6)
27: Social Security as Investment Account? (1)
25: Keep Ants out of Your Hummingbird Feeder (5)
25: Moments of Fame (0)
23: How do I love the credit union? (2)
23: Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine… (1)
23: More fame! (3)
21: This could be fun (0)
21: Another bullet dodged (2)
20: Lemonade from a financial lemon (5)
19: Be afraid. Be very afraid. (5)
19: Olive Oil: The ultimate hair conditioner (50)
18: The Copyeditor’s Desk has a new URL (0)
18: Moments of Fame (7)
18: FeedBurner in; Feedburner out (1)
17: B-a-a-a-d basselope! Frugality 0, Spending 1 (2)
16: Is the Layoff Boom about to Fall? (3)
14: DANCE TO SPRING! (well…late summer) (1)
13: The National Debt: The mortgage meltdown x 10? (8)
13: A$king and re¢eiving (0)
12: Health insurance flap settles down (1)
11: Moments of fame (2)
10: Roundup: Cactus flower edition (0)
09: Lessons learned from a computer crash (1)
07: What’s going on here? (0)
07: The show must go on! (0)
05: Big Brother in action (2)
05: New business enterprise gets under way (0)
04: Celebrate America: Shop Local (0)
04: Moments of fame (0)
03: Round-up: Hotter than a two-dollar cookstove edition (0)
02: Hank’s big giveaway at My Investment Blog (0)
02: If I won a million dollars . . . (1)
01: Cheap Eats: Cold cucumber soup (2)

July 2008 (34)
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31: Goals start to gather . . . (0)
31: Insurance: Never a dull moment (1)
29: Challenge: Five midsummer financial goals (0)
28: Moments of Fame (0)
28: New Year’s Resolutions: Where are those goals now? (0)
27: Shopping: Saved from myself (0)
25: Foreclosure update from the deep Southwest: News is mixed (0)
25: WordPress project, continued (0)
24: Dear Apple MobileMe team (0)
24: Rumors swirl at AMEX (0)
23: A$k nicely, and ye shall re¢eive (0)
23: Dealin’ with the devil (0)
22: A low-cost make-up kit for travel (0)
20: Declutter while you can (0)
19: Dollars and nickels and dimes, oh my! (0)
19: A step to improve the finances (0)
18: w00t! 18 grand materializes from the air! (0)
17: Moments of Fame (0)
17: More on Mac (0)
16: Update: Blog migration project (0)
15: Carnival of Money Stories (0)
14: An open letter to Steve Jobs (1)
13: And real-life headaches… (0)
13: Dog Hilarity: The wacky things people do for their pets (0)
11: Back (0)
11: Moments of Fame (0)
10: MacHeadache (0)
09: Live and Learn (0)
08: Moving for your financial health (0)
07: Square Peg Revisited: Thanks to PK Sublime (1)
03: Independence Day link love (0)
02: How higher gas prices save money (0)
01: Why there is no cross-over point (0)
01: Buying futures at the gas pump (0)

June 2008 (29)
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30: A Gourmet Cooking Party: Fun, frugal, and delicious (0)
29: Good ole boys (0)
27: Estate Sales: The canary in the mine? (1)
26: Cheap Eats: Easy, yummy cabbage (0)
25: Real Life: Funnier than the comic strips (0)
24: The joy of megacorporations (0)
22: Throwing money in the trash (0)
21: The Personal Finance Confession Project: Do as I say… (0)
20: If next payday doesn’t come… (0)
18: Dog Food: The costs and benefits of making your own (0)
17: Humane Society Offers Deals! Frugalist pleased (0)
16: Doomed! (0)
16: A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Biweekly pay in a bimonthly world (1)
16: Stop the presses…literally (0)
15: Getting back on budget (1)
14: Decision Made! Dog scored! (1)
13: How do you make a long-term decision rationally? (0)
11: Consumer-proof Packaging: A Modest Proposal (0)
10: Not all Costco gas is equal (0)
10: Personal finance nerds 1, spendthrifts 0 (0)
09: The value of reconciling your check accounts (1)
08: Estate Sale Coups! And a bonus: how to sharpen your knives (0)
07: Report: Does hypermiling work for a Toyota Sienna? (0)
07: Time to buy a new car? (0)
06: Frugal driving = stress relief (0)
04: Consumer Rant of the Day: Tomatoes (0)
03: How I spent $48,346.36 on my dogs (0)
02: Moments of Fame (0)
02: Gasoline (0)

May 2008 (33)
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31: R.I.P. Anna H. Banana (0)
30: SUV-mania persists (0)
29: Amazing Grace! Annual review miracle (0)
29: New! PF Buzz (0)
28: Great activities for a modest budget (0)
28: What’s a thing worth? (1)
28: Dog lives to bark another day (0)
25: Review: Blue Shoes and Happiness (0)
23: Are we movin’ on up? Or not? (0)
23: Cheap Eats: Dine in, not out! Shoulda had shrimp (0)
22: Real Estate: Is now the time to buy? (0)
21: DIY Back Massage (0)
21: Month of extreme frugality (NOT!) (0)
20: Beelzebub Central (0)
19: On the Run: Report from our roving reporter (0)
18: Welcome, Life-Hacker Readers (0)
18: Time and tide . . . (0)
17: Progress toward loan payoff goal! (0)
17: Cheap Eats: Delicious veggie spaghetti (0)
16: The miracle of penny-pinching (0)
16: Skeptic saves $175 (0)
15: Dog redux (0)
14: Are college degrees overrated? (0)
13: Link love (0)
12: Targeting your emergency savings (0)
11: Shaking off the blues (0)
11: One frugal move = 12 to-do’s done (0)
10: Nine Ways I’m Saving on Gas: What’s your strategy? (1)
09: Dog (0)
09: Burglars (0)
09: Cheap Eats: Six meals in one (0)
08: Graduation Day (0)
07: Business Humor… (0)

April 2008 (33)
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29: Bombs Away: Academic trench warfare revisited (0)
28: Monday Household Hint: Make roses last (0)
27: Saving $$ at the pool pump (0)
27: Life in the Academic Trenches (1)
25: Candles (0)
25: The refinance is here (0)
25: w00t! Frugality works better (0)
24: How we teach our children to cheat, lie, and steal (1)
24: Side jobs, side worries (0)
23: Ashes (2)
22: Coupons (0)
21: Monday Household Hint: Hide cords with no special gadgets (0)
20: Weekend Roundup: New neighbors edition (0)
20: Handy li’l Quicken hack (0)
19: Trees and the frugalist (0)
18: Cheap Eats: Polenta (0)
17: Should college students have to study personal finance? (0)
16: Taking Stock: Money, stress, and Funny about Money (0)
15: Five ways to fight inflation at the grocery store (0)
13: Five budget busters (0)
12: DIY: The great de-wallpapering adventure (0)
11: Twelve ways to save money on your dog (0)
11: Home Inspections: Hire your own craftsmen (1)
11: Frugal Friday Recipes: Beef Burgundy (0)
09: Net Worth Update: Better than expected (0)
08: Managing Your Emergency Fund: The paycheck-to-paycheck safety net (1)
07: Monday Household Hints: Fix carpet dents (0)
06: In the Nick of Time: A new income stream appears (0)
06: Saturday Roundup: A day late and a dollar short edition (0)
05: Stealing from the students (0)
04: Friday Frugal Crafts: Cure your own olives (0)
04: w00t! Refinance time! (0)
01: Are we better off than our parents were? (0)

March 2008 (7)
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31: Monday Household Hint: Clean tile grout (0)
30: Why no ads on this site? (0)
29: A Tale from the Housing Crypt: Horrors of the real estate bubble (0)
29: Saturday Round-up: Sumer y-cumin’ in edition (0)
28: Side Job: Episode 2 (0)
28: Frugal Crafts Friday: The musical fruit (0)
27: Neat News Item (0)

February 2008 (1)
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24: Bartleby, the late, great scrivener (2)

January 2008 (18)
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23: Hello, there! (31)
14: Financial goals, urban angst (0)
11: Funny’s ten money principles (2)
11: Frugal Crafts Friday: How to make upscale casual jewelry (0)
10: How to bamboozle a buyer (0)
09: Five good things you can do for your finances this week (0)
09: How Much Is That Doggie in the Window: The cost of owning a pet (0)
07: Bonus Frugal Household Hint: Free water (2)
07: Frugal Household Hints: Vinegar is sweet (5)
06: Time is not money (1)
06: Incoming! How to get the paper flak under control (0)
05: Stay on top of magazine renewals (2)
05: Chicken soup for dog-lovers (0)
04: Less clutter = less stress! (0)
03: A$k and ye shall re¢eive (0)
03: 2008 financial goal thwarted at birth (0)
02: Frugal Crafts Friday: How to make a cozy heating pad cover (0)
01: Pay off the loan vs. stash the cash (0)

December 2007 (11)
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31: Frugal Household Hints: Stovetop cleaner (0)
30: Lights in the night (0)
30: Make a New Year’s to-do list (0)
29: No kidding? (0)
28: Freedom’s just another word… (0)
28: Life in the big city (0)
27: Round-up: Colder than a bigawd edition (0)
26: Seven ways to save money on clothes and cut shopping stress (0)
26: Living on Biweekly Pay in a Bimonthly World: Ten steps closer to sanity (1)
25: Chilly Christmas Night (0)
24: Frugal Christmas (1)

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