October 2011

Paid Our First $2,000 Towards The Mortgage Payoff Plan!

October 31, 2011

And it feels GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD! But also – SCARYYY!!!!!! Haha… Not only to have $2,000 disappear from your account so fast, but to not be able to GET IT BACK if we change our minds later! It really feels against everything I’ve been running with over the past 5 years ;) Which is pretty much SAVE [...]

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This Week’s Giveaway: An Autographed $5.00 Bill ;)

October 31, 2011

You’ll have to go over to Giveaways Are Sexy and check it out. It’s pretty dope if I do say so myself. And to win it, all you have to do is tell me the funniest joke! (I laugh pretty easily too – give it a shot) Happy Halloween, everyone!

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My Office Goes Down, My Love For TJ Maxx Goes Up!

October 28, 2011

BAM! Check out that upgrade ;) Total costs: $98. Not to shabby for my new office bathroom! For the fourth(?) time this year, I have once again moved my office to better cope w/ my work-from-home quirks. What started at my friend’s place renting a desk (was too hard to commute to every day) has [...]

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Side Hustle Series: I’m a “Phone Actress”

October 27, 2011

(Guest post by T. Thema Martin as part of our Side Hustle Series — enjoy! ;)) Over the past few years, my income had steadily decreased because of the effects of the recession. I standardly live a debt-free (except mortgage) and minimalistic (no car) life. However, I lost a lot of income sources in June [...]

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Ever Wonder What The Best Day to Sell Your House Is?

October 26, 2011

The answer is Friday :) Darn it! You’re not gonna wanna read on now, are you??? Dang. Haha… well, if you’re still with me here, I got this answer from the good folks at Redfin. They dug into a whole bunch of date recently, and pulled out some interesting statistics on the best times to [...]

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What Income % Are YOU Occupying Wall Street With?

October 25, 2011

I’ve only been half-heartedly following this Occupy Wall Street stuff (I still don’t understand the point of it all?) but whenever I come across financial widgets I’m right on that $hit ;) And this whole protest thing got the Wall Street Journal to come up with a crazy simple calculator that shows you what % [...]

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How I Accomplished My Goal of Full-Time Blogging

October 24, 2011

This morning I awoke to a killer email from one of my favorite people in the whole world – Miss Jenny Blake: Former 9-5′er at Google, and now publisher of all things AWESOME. She recently launched a new course aptly titled “Make Sh*t Happen,” and it turned out a case study I had helped her [...]

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Giveaway This Week: Steve Jobs Biography (3 Copies!)

October 24, 2011

Yup! Courtesy of my friends over at Budgetable — the makers of budget software for the modern age (currently in beta). If you’ve been an admirer of Steve Jobs, or just been a huge fan since you’ve been rocking your iWhatever, now’s your chance to grab a FREE copy of his soon to be released [...]

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And The Lottery Results Are In…

October 22, 2011

We did *NOT* win our lottery game! Haha… though we did come away with $5.00 ;) Which is funny because BOTH of the winning lottery tickets we had were because of YOUR errors! Haha, way to pay attention. Here were the lucky Mega Millions numbers for our drawing: 24, 25, 45, 47, 53 and 42 [...]

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5 For Friday: Antiques Roadshow ed.

October 21, 2011

I’ve been watching a looooot of daytime television lately (I force myself to take lunch breaks now and step away from the computer for 1-2 hours every afternoon), and lately I’ve been fixated on Antiques Roadshow. Well, that and Pan am, but that’s for another day ;) It’ so COOL to see all these crazy [...]

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