Category: Financial Security

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...

I have a lot of spending weaknesses: books, clothes, toys, eating out. It’s easy to focus on all the ways I’m shit at spending money, and forget tha...

I felt like I had to get this out there before I turned 35 because I’d like to be able to say that I started my first savings plan before 35. Sure it migh...

This week was my best yet, which is good because next week there will be two big expenses, a plumbing bill (we have to get our leaky bathroom faucet fixed) and ...

Instead of commenting to each comment on my last post, I’m going to write another post that is pretty much one big response to all the comments. It might ...

So, my thoughts on posting about my spending. In a word? It’s been hard. Really hard. I don’t think I realized before how intensely personal spendin...

There were three big purchases this week: (1) I renewed our membership to the Discovery Museum because we always go way more than enough times to make it worth ...