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So either my blog ate all my auto-posts set up for this week or I just dreamed that I did them.  Either is possible, to be honest.

Sorry to all the DC bloggers for missing happy hour again – something important came up last minute, unfortunately.  I guess that’s life!

I wish I could remember what my [...]

Loss Leaders

Do loss leader products work on you the way they’re “supposed to?”

To put it simply, a loss leader is a product put on sale such that the store makes no money on it and usually takes a bit of a loss.  The purpose of these products is to get people in the stores and get [...]

Slight underestimation

This year, for the first time, I set up a Flexible Spending Account for my medical expenses.  I didn’t have a whole lot of time to play with, so I took a general look at my expenses from last year and just picked a number.  I knew it would be low, but decided that a [...]

Victory!

Last week, I mentioned my frustration with my local CVS.  Yesterday, I had to get a new prescription filled (for a sinus infection that will not die), and when the nurse asked me where I wanted the prescription sent, I found myself pulling out the phone number for CVS again.

Wait, no!  That pharmacy is terrible! 

Instead, [...]

Window Shopping

I’ve lived in the D.C. area for about two and a half years now, and I’m still getting over my sticker shock at housing prices here, especially within the District borders.  My parents are currently selling their midwestern home and the joke is that for what they’re selling their nice family house for, I could [...]