This morning, a coworker came up to me to tell me about her neverending saga with her condo board. Long story short, she lives in a large condo complex, and her building is one of the last buildings in the back of the property. The plus side to this is added privacy. The negative side …
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Now that the weather is nice… well, mostly nice, anyway, I’ve been thinking about putting up a clothesline in my backyard. I love the smell of clothes that have dried out in the sun. I haven’t quite figured out how to go about putting up a clothesline though. I like the idea of something portable …
I did something that I have never done before. I booked a vacation well over a year in advance. I have never booked the sort of vacation where I schedule in time to pay a downpayment with the balance due later. And yet now I have. I am scheduled to go on a cruise next …
I’m not a superstitious person, but it does seem like bad things happen in threes. Of course, when two bad things happen, you’re just looking for a third one. And it seems to be a categorical thing too. If one thing breaks, two more are going to break. Last week, my nearly two-year-old Kindle bit …
This has been a rough week for people I love. To focus only on the finance side of it, two of my friends lost their jobs this week. They work in completely different industries, and even work in different countries, so the only similarity is that they’re both victims of the tough economic times that …