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Wanna Know the Cheapest Way to Travel The World?

July 30, 2010
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Work for the airlines! You can travel alllll over when you’ve got that hook up. I did it for an entire year and will never forget it :)
But it’s not for the faint of heart – you will need to ROCK customer service or else it’ll eat you up a live.  (It’s seriously up there [...]

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12 Ways I Don’t Set an Example

July 23, 2010

I was at a loss for topics to write about this morning, so I decided to go through some of my old drafts piling up and see if anything sparked my interest. And what do you know! I found a link I’d saved over a year and a half ago just waiting to [...]

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Metal Detecting is Cool, Damn it.

July 12, 2010

I’m back from the beach! And let me tell you, I feel like I’ve been transported back into 1992 again (aka 6th grade).  By that I mean I went metal detecting!  Twice!  And I actually found something of value!  It might have been only $2.12 worth, but nonetheless it was AWESOME.  And contrary to [...]

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Social Media, Money, & Friends

June 30, 2010

So the 20 Something Bloggers posed an interesting question this week, and for once I thought I’d participate. Not because the others were weak or anything, but when it comes to money y’all know I’m ’bout it ’bout it! Plus, there’s an off chance of winning $100 ;) I [...]

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Why I Work in Customer Service

June 10, 2010

I work in customer service because most customer service people I talk with suck. Really bad.  They don’t mean to suck, but they usually do. In fact, I always joke that most people in customer service are the ones that should NOT BE in customer service ;) There are some exceptions of course [...]

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When do you shop? When you’re bored? Happy? Sad? Pissed off? Excited? Because it’s a habit?

April 30, 2010

Have you ever thought about how much emotions play into our spending habits? Cuz I gotta be honest with you, I’d say that 98% or more of my shopping trips (non-bill related stuff) is tied to one or more of these real life emoticons ;) And from the looks of My Pretty Penny’s latest post [...]

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Are You Middle Class? (should you care?)

April 23, 2010

I keep seeing these factoids around other finance blogs, so I thought I’d join :) I haven’t looked through them all yet, but I’m going to guess right now that yes – I am Middle Class.  Let’s see if I’m wrong though, shall we?

Here are the stats from Free Money Finance, who got them from Yahoo, who [...]

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Reader Mail: Why Do I Max Out My 401(k) So Fast?

April 21, 2010

Any chance I get to talk about my love of 401(k)s! Although you could really apply this Q&A to any investing tool out there, I pretty much like ‘em all ;)
Here’s the question I was emailed in more detail, followed by my original answer copied & pasted below:
“I’ve been reading your blog for probably about [...]

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Reason #211 Not to Have Car Payments

April 6, 2010

When your car starts breaking, you actually don’t mind paying to fix it! :)
I just dropped $270 on new tires and alignment and it is a-okay in my books, friends.  The longer I can keep my ‘93 Caddy on that road means the more money I can sock away until I [...]

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10 Jobs I’d Like to Try Some Day

March 16, 2010

I promised somebody a while ago that I’d list out some of the jobs I want to try some day, so here they are! Only 6 months late ;) I’m not sure how, or when, I’ll get the chance to try them all out, but in a perfect world I’ll eventually get to [...]

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