October 2011

Victory!

I am not in debt to my old leasing agency after all! I called the accounts manager who sent me the letter and told them my story.  I also called the leasing agent who offered me the deal (the amount I thought I needed to pay and had paid).  A few days later, the leasing …

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Get it in writing

Welcome Consumerist readers!  For a followup, check this entry. So I made a stupid mistake. A mistake that someone who knows finance and who actually has a law degree shouldn’t make. I didn’t get something in writing. And now it may be coming back to bite me. Brief background: I bought my house in February …

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Splurging

I was chatting with a fellow new-homeowner this weekend about splurging.  She and her husband are using up some flight credits and going on a trip in a few weeks.  It’s a spur of the moment thing, and she’s feeling guilty about it since they just bought the house and we have been ranting about …

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Frustration

A friend recently lost her job.  Not her fault, just one of those downsizing things.  She had some hints that it was coming, but I don’t think she had accepted it, so hadn’t done much in terms of looking for new work until after the layoff happened.  That was back in July.  She’s been looking …

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