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 [...]

Last month, my promotional rate with my cable company expired.  That meant my bill was going to jump.  Just what everyone loves to have happen.  So I called the cable company to see what they could do.

The answer that I got was that they couldn’t do much, but that I would be eligible for another [...]

The other day, some co-workers were discussing a finance article that one of them had read recently.  I didn’t catch the title or the details of the article, but what I did catch was this comment:

“Who do these writers think they are, anyway?  They don’t have money problems.  They don’t make stupid mistakes and overdraw [...]

As I’ve mentioned, this has been a rough few months for my budget, so I’m treating September as a low spending month.  It’s not a no-spending month – I’m impressed with people who can do that, but I’m not one of them.  But I’m only buying necessities for as long as possible.  So far, so [...]