Recent revelation: ya can’t finish if ya don’t start. Sure, it’s probably emblazoned on assorted gas station tchotchkes (sandwiched between “fail to plan, plan to fail” and “pobody’s nerfect”), but the full implications have eluded me until today. A couple weeks ago I figured out I could probably retire before 50 if I scaled down my
Since today was a gloriously spend-free day and I wanted a place to log more insights than a straight-forward spending post, I decided upon a weekly summary of expenses and lessons learned. This week’s damage: $823.85 Biggest chunk of that: technology, in the form of an almost-600-dollar-phone…still leaves more than $200 on grocery/other spending, when
Spring (a summer preview even) has come to town, and it motivated me to clean up some problem areas around the house. While I would have preferred to find the right-sized organizer among the many I’ve collected over years of mindless consumerism, I at least thought to measure (using my cell phone for reference, rather
The idea is for the weekdays to be pretty boring around here, since I try to consolidate grocery trips on the weekends. Today I could technically include the stamp and gas it took to get to the post office (to snail-mail confirmation of a gym membership cancellation), but I’ve decided to charge those upon replenishment…bringing
Today’s spending was extraordinarily high and unanticipated, but not truly unplanned. A few years ago I picked up an older model Android phone for what I thought (/still think) was an exorbitant couple hundred bucks. The phone has served me well, but over the past few months has begun to succumb to its designed obsolescence
Made giant pot of coffee at home to resist the lure of the Starbucks siren… debated long-term savings of ditching Vitamin Water, then decided to cut down to part-time and see how that goes. Total spending: $34.86 for one grocery run
The second day of this experiment brought a surprise – toilet seat shuffled off its mortal coil this morning. After a chiropractor appointment (included in today’s log), I braced myself for an economical trip to Tarzhey (cue angelic choir). Suppose I could’ve gone to the hardware store instead, but that place is honestly just as