Penny For My Thoughts

While discussing plans for the summer, my mother and I last night were reminiscing about the trip to New York City we took to New York City in 2000 for my sixteenth birthday. We had a great time-stayed at a great hotel, went to see a Musical (Kiss Me Kate, with Brian Stokes Mitchell) [...]

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So, I said my vacation was good, but not budget friendly.  Let’s review the good things I did for my wallet, first:
1.  Brought my own cans of Coke and water
2.  Did not sucumb to the “buying something more to use a coupon” risk.
3.  Picked up a nice rashguard wicked cheap.
 
The bad.  I’ve had [...]

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Just got back from a fabulous (if wallet unfriendly-more on that later-yipes!) trip, to some news that bumming me out. Disney has announced that they are closing Pleasure Island. Why is this a personal finance issue? Well, because while at WDW in December, I had one day and some pluses (read-Pleasure Island [...]

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My post on paychecks is in the #158 carnival

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Last weekend, my mother mentioned to me that she had gotten an e-mail from one of our local focus group companies. I had not gotten the opportunity e-mail, but I did note that I’d signed up for a focus group company that I’d seen near our house, and recommended that she do the same. [...]

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So with the million “Recent College graduate” posts cluttering the personal finance blogosphere, I thought I’d hit upon my big confusion when I graduated-something I believe the kids who use LOLspeak would call “I has a paycheck, what do I do wif it?”  I mean, I knew I had student loans to pay, credit card [...]

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Last year, I was rear-ended at a stoplight by another vehicle. I was very fortunate in that despite the fact that my car was totaled (whaa), the person who hit me’s insurance was very good about working with my insurance-so there was no loss of wages or unnecessary expense on my part. However, [...]

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But I just made Fisher-Price My First Bid on Priceline.com. I just needed a quick airport hotel. I picked a three star hotel, punched in a low bid just for the heck of it, and bam! I got the Sheraton at the airport for $35-they’re $99 on the hotel’s site. I’m [...]

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Imagine if you had a Myspace or Facebook for your blog persona. Now, imagine that not only was there a social networking site like those sites, but it also gave you great paid blogging opportunities. Such a site is a reality with SocialSpark. As soon as I read about Social Spark on [...]

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I don’t like it when personal finance blogs get political. I don’t-honestly. I’m a very political person, but too much politicking on a personal finance blog turns me off-I’m here to discuss money, not why you are convinced of a vast left/right/center wing conspiracy. However, there’s this messy place between politics and [...]

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