Stepping Up for Kids
This weekend, I participated in Step Up for Kids to support Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. I climbed 80 flights of stairs, more than 1,600 steps, in about 24 minutes. Children’s is a charity I’ve supported for years, and this event was a new and different way for me to contribute to an important cause [...]
Welcome Back, Carnival Readers
To those of you visiting from this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance, hello and welcome! Please feel free to browse around the site while enjoying your morning coffee or tea. Despite the site’s lovely shade of pink, I think you’ll find plenty to keep you entertained and informed. Site archives start in 2004 and are searchable [...]
Spontaneity Costs More
Inspired by a show on the History Channel this morning, fresh out of bed and still a little sleepy, I said to man-friend, “Let’s go to the Field Museum. We haven’t been there in ages and they have all the Mesoamerican stuff we just watched in the program.” He, drinking coffee, noted that we were [...]
Why Knitting is the Ultimate Budget Hobby
For a lot of people, knitting conjures up images of old fashioned grandmas and great aunts. I can say this with confidence because I knit on the train while commuting to and from work, and women frequently stop me to ask me what I’m knitting, then tell me that their grandmother was a fabulous knitter [...]
Five Things I Learned About Taxes Today
Today, thanks to a non-stop media blitz about the effective tax rates of presidential candidates past and current, I managed to learn something about income taxes. Turns out, taxes are not nearly as boring nor as frustrating a subject as I thought. Here, friends, are friends things I learned today: Importantly, I learned the definition [...]
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