Summer Budget Project Week 7 (and an announcement)
This week’s total was torpedo bombed by a massive swimming lesson purchase. This Tuesday we will use the last of the ten swimming lessons I purchased for ...
Author: noemikjames
Money Waste Rage
I’ve never handled the loss of money (either in the form of actual money or the stuff money buys) very well. I am someone who loses things and I take it v...
ZOMG THE OVERWHELMZ
I’m at work today. In my classroom. Doing things. Or trying to. ZOMG THE OVERWHELMZ. Nobody was in the office but I was able to peek through the glass win...
Same as it ever was
I’m reading more and more frugal living and financial independence and personal finance blogs and I am so impressed with the choices people are making and...
Ping-Pongin’ Around my Mental Parts
I hope you’re ready to ping-pong through the long and short of my mind… Less than three weeks left of summer. It feels like it flew by and like I...
How much is too much?
I had a problem with alcohol for many, many years. In high school and college I used alcohol (and other drugs) to numb my emotional pain and ease my anxiety. Wh...
Summer Budget Project Week 6
This itemized spending recap feel disingenuous because I was with my husband all weekend and he paid for everything. We spent A LOT on food and drinks that week...
Remembering
Last night my husband and I watched Obvious Child. It’s an atypical romantic comedy about a woman (Jenny Slate, who is wonderful) dealing with the emotion...
The Report
It took two weeks for the OT to send me my daughter’s official report. It’s 16 pages long. I’ve read it once. I kind of understand some of it....
Summer Budget Project Week 5
Well, that was a banner fucking week. I’m feeling pretty sulky about how much I keep managing to spend every week, even when I’m trying to make good...