My Biggest Monthly Expense
Know what my biggest expense each month is? I’ll give you a few hints – I plan evenings around it, I use it every three hours (or more!) and it’s always on my mind. Got it? It’s food! I’ll skip the detailed history about my relationship with food and just say that I started buying [...]
Don’t Forget Your Finances, but Don’t Let Them Slow You Down!
When life gets busy, people can choose to cope one of two ways: they can slow down, take time to relax and get their life in order; or, like me, they can take on more. It seems totally counter intuitive, but I thrive on the chaos. On any given weekend, if I have 10 things [...]
29 and Holding…
My 30th birthday is fast approaching, and while I haven’t been vocal about it like some of my friends (love ‘em for it!), I can’t help but notice that the something inside me is changing. It’s not that my life has evolved significantly in any way, or that I’ve become unhappy with where I am, [...]
A Fond Farewell to A Crazy Year… 2008 in Review
Brilliant or flat broke, I think most people will be happy to say au revoir to 2008. Like a Peter Jackson movie, it feels like it’s taken for-eva to end, and I get the general sense that most people in my community are terribly worried about their own future and that of their loved ones. [...]
What Makes a Budgeting Babe?
As I’ve been thinking more about the mission of my site, and about my readers and my friends, I though I’d take a moment to define what a Budgeting Babe is and what we stand for. Sure, the name might seem kinda fluffy and the site is pretty in pink, but there’s definitely a deeper [...]
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