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money

• food, money, recipes

  What’s for dinner

  03.21.10 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  I’ve finally gotten in the habit of shopping once a week around a meal plan. And now, of course, I can’t imagine how I managed not to go crazy before, running to the store almost every day for just one or two things that always turned into fifty dollars worth of crackers and “good deals” [...]

• marriage, money

  Going to bed angry

  02.20.10 | Permalink | 28 Comments

  You know how they say the number one thing married people fight about is money? I hate that it is the number one thing that Tom and I fight about too, because we don’t have one of those marriages. We have a happy marriage. But bring out the budget talk, or, worse, the Freelance Eviscerator [...]

• fight the frump, health, money

  Like trying a swimsuit on, only in front of your realtor and your mortgage broker

  06.05.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  You’ve probably heard that there’s a housing slump. But I’m not buying it. Unless by “slump” you mean that paying 229,000 for a screwy multi-level, 1600-square-foot house in an okay neighborhood is a steal. (Just nod, you New Yorkers; I know, life isn’t fair). Most of the time I feel really grateful for the money Dick [...]

• money

  Finance Frump

  05.01.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  First: You feel the tax rebate is: Most criminal use of taxpayer money ever! You want me to stimulate what? Hallelujah! Money! Money! Money! Why didn’t we have another kid in 2007? Second: The best way to spend it is: Save it all, baby. Blow it on 79 cute shoes. Invest in a Mutual What? [...]

• Sally, Susan, commentary, fashion, honesty, humor, money

  Fashion sense, and a giving heart

  02.11.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  I wore my new (from-a-clothes-swap-my-sister-went-to) puffy vest today, since it was only half a Siberia outside. I love the colors and I love vests, and fake fur is just so fun yet PETA-friendly. Susan said, You got your life jacket on, Mommy? Well, that’s fine. Turns out the high collar was really annoying anyway. Then [...]

• blogging, money, works for me

  WFMW: Just say no to online shopping

  02.06.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  The best thing about shopping online is that you can do it in your underwear, and ignore your kids, and not have people looking at you like a) why are you in your underwear? and b) don’t you hear your kid screaming? I guess there’s more than one best things. The worst thing about shopping [...]

• money

  Recession-proof

  01.23.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Like many people caught on the wrong end of the housing market, we lost a small fortune (“small” maybe to you, big spender; “fortune” okay, only if you have really, really low expectations) on our house in Florida. So far we’re resisting the urge to sue our agent, which supports the idea that people don’t [...]