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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 [...]

Family Finances

The office is a bit slow today, so my coworkers got into a big conversation about marriage (I think it may have started with Tiger Woods).  That morphed into a conversation about family finances, and it was very eye opening.

One coworker thinks that when a couple gets married, each person should put a percentage of [...]

Late deposits

My apartment complex is pretty relaxed when it comes to rent payments.

Almost too relaxed, if you ask me.

Rent is due on the first of the month, as is true with most apartments.  We also get a grace period, like most apartments.  But our grace period is a whopping ten days!  I’ve never needed a ten [...]

Favorite financial splurges

Yesterday, a few coworkers and I were talking about Thanksgiving dinner.  I’m going to what is being termed “Refugee Thanksgiving” – those of us stuck in town with no family, most of us government employees who have to work on Friday (since I was going to be in town, I volunteered so others could be [...]