My boyfriend shared this lovely article in his Google Reader the other day. “Avoid the Grade School Trap,” shouts its headline, and it goes on to explain that many people respond to a recession by returning to school rather than taking a job they feel is “beneath them.” This is a horrible idea, warns our [...]
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Savings and loans.
Posted in Boyfriend, Grad School, Money, Tutoring, tagged Anthropologie, payday, saving money, spending money on March 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Use your noodle!
Posted in Eats, Money, Stocks, tagged pasta, recession on February 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As you all know, one of my great passions is the stock market. I follow it religiously, from market open to market close, every day of the week. All day long, I read about stocks, write about stocks, think about stocks. Stocks! Stocks! Stocks! When I find a stock whose news or action particularly tickles [...]
In medias res.
Posted in Daily Life, Family, Money, tagged Dad, Mom on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because I spend most of the day thinking about money (how much I have, how I can get more), I appreciated this piggyback off of the Center for an Urban Future study I wrote about the other day. I have no idea what “middle class” means. When I was much younger, I assumed my family [...]
