Back in April, I signed up for Netflix. I let myself get talked into it, but I figured I would try it out for a while and see what happened.So far, I'm a happy customer.I'm on the three DVDs at a time plan right now. I started out with two, bumped it up to three, thought that might be excessive, then caught a bad cold and was stuck at home, very glad I had three movies to watch. According to FeedFlix, I'm spending an average of $1.26 … [Read more...]
Lifestyle inflation?
(Still on vacation, but I couldn't bring myself to leave the blog completely empty. Enjoy!)One of the things that personal finance gurus and bloggers alike warn against is lifestyle inflation. Lifestyle inflation happens when you get a raise or move to an area with lower rent or somehow come into more money than normal and then you suddenly find yourself spending more money than you were. You can afford to, after all. You have all this … [Read more...]