LivingAlmostLarge

We went over our $1k goal for our weekend getaway. We spent $1133.58. Not terribly over and I know exactly how it happened.
We spent $307 for the hotels, $120 dog boarding, $113 for gas, and $30 for tolls = $570. All about right, but then we ended up spending $199 on experiences like Maid of [...]

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Sigh, my FIL is coming this weekend. Fortunately it’s only one week. Problem? I so have to clean the house!!! What am I doing sitting here writing on my blog? I’m stupid.
Then I find out about 5 minutes ago DH’s best friend (FK) is coming to live with us July [...]

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I always get into tussles on message boards with people who claim that rich people pay the most taxes. Yes they pay DOLLAR wise the most taxes, but Percentage wise the middle class pays the most taxes. How is that possible???? Warren Buffet has bet $1 million dollars that you couldn’t find a rich person [...]

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I think I may have allowed my post to be a bit misleading. I should have written when in debt payoff mode what is the first thing you cut? Not for one month but more like 18-24 months…
So this is a long term cut, not a one month $25 here or $100.

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People always come to financial messages boards and ask for help with their budget. They then proceed to say they should spend less on groceries. They are spending say $50-100/week for their families. But they hope to save $25/week.
I think that’s nice, but to be honest it’s a drop in the bucket [...]

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I am very surprised that so many of my readers would be amenable to submitting reciepts to their spouse for reimbursement. Must be my independent nature that would never allow that.
To me money is money. Sure we can each get cash and spend it as we see fit, but to submit expenses to [...]

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The Carnival of Personal Finance #106 is up at the Digerati Life. I submitted my article “Condos burn in hell.” Unfortunately I just had to rant a little about my condo.
Interesting articles too look over are “Things are fine” by Boomie and “breaking financial illiteracy” by KRG.
Looks like a huge carnival with 91 submissions.

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Well someone posted that $1k is a lot to spend a couple of days away. I tend to agree, I won’t know for a few more days exactly what we spent because we charged a lot and I’m not sure what the exchange rate on the CC will turn out to be.
But one expense [...]

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Interesting on the LLNOE board I read, a woman asked the question should she wait to have kids (she’s only 27), or should she just move forward while still in debt? I wonder about this too? We’re not hugely in debt, and it’s student loans and a mortgage. BUT I worry about money and time.
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Well I guess you can see I need to do a small rant about my condo. So our retaining wall issue is still unresolved. One of the other owner’s is trying to argue that the MONEY, DH and I collected through our ATTORNEY from the developer is 20% his! Though he didn’t even own the [...]

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