You may not be aware, but there’s another finance-related blog carnival just getting started – the Finance Fiesta! Check out the third edition. This was my first week participating, and there are a number of blogs participating that I haven’t read before. Might take me a while to get through all these links.
When possible, I like to catch episodes of Dirty Jobs on The Discovery Channel. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the basic premise is that Mike Rowe goes around the country meeting people with dirty jobs and then doing the job along side them for a while. It’s fascinating, and you definitely meet …
Everyone has their limits of how far they will go in terms of frugality. Sometimes it’s just because we refuse to do something, sometimes it’s because we just don’t want to do something. For example, we all hear about how much money we could all save if we bring our lunch every day. But if …
I have an addition to my travel tips post. When flying anywhere, be sure to bring at least one extra set of clothing, and plan to fly home with that outfit still clean. I spent a long weekend at my parents’ house as a Father’s Day surprise for my dad. My flight out was delayed …
Over the past week or so, I’ve spent a bit of time trying to decide what I want to do with this site. I like reading and writing about personal finance, and I’m putting some financial “experiments” into play to give me more to write about (the latest being Sharebuilder). But I’m a bit limited …