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... is the cost of an unmolested credit card.

All in all, I'm actually pleased with myself. My friends and family often slap their foreheads over my being so cheap/frugal and money-driven, but...

My income is low enough that I've been paying 0% for almost a decade. Now that I live in Oregon I don't pay a sales tax either.

It's taken me 13 months to get to this point, although there's been a lot of smiling denial along the way.

I had a perfectly good pickup that I sold last January amid predictions of gas topping at...

I think I've figured it out my quick fix.

I scrubbed all the p-b spots and vomit with a strong solution of very hot dishwater. What is dish soap designed for if not breaking up grease? The...

Right now my dog has been banished to the balcony for his own protection.

There's only one brand of peanut butter that I'll eat, sold only at one store in town that's inconveniently located for a...

I'm still around. Sort of. Since moving out of my snakepit of a neighborhood, my life has taken off. I spent a lot of time online before because, quite honestly, I was a little afraid to venture...

Thanks all. I suppose I should clarify here that the 11% isn't necessarily savings. It's just what isn't already spoken for. :|( I usually find a happy home for it on its way to the bank. That's...

Hi all! It's been a while. :|(

A little over a year ago, I was hanging on by my toenails after my last job dried up. I lived on an SSDI pittance, food stamps, and an open ended family loan. ...

My understanding is that the Hilton clan dissolved about 98% of the family fortune a few years ago and gave it to a long list of charities. They regard Paris as a distant stepchild and an...

This explains a whole lot ...



This guy created a monster that we'll have to live with a long time, but ya gotta give credit where credit is due. The guy is brilliant in his field.

Last winter I bought a "water repellant" jacket on clearance at Walmart for $30. It repelled water for about 10 minutes, which just isn't acceptable here in the Pacific NW. Especially for a bus...

Yeah, I slapped my forehead when he said he had posted his idea online for free. I think he'll come to regret that ..

Basically, they now have me working two jobs at the same agency. Two days a week I have a micro-caseload of six people, a reduced version of the job I was doing before. The other two days I'm now at...

I must say their selections for instant download are a little off though. This morning I came up empty when I wanted to download the immortal classic Gaslight, but Robo Geisha was at the top of the...

I wasn't sure whether to post this here or in Frugality. It works either way:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOl4vwhwkW8&feature=player_embedded

Yeppers. Everyone evaluates everyone, including themselves.

This is my solution: The evals are due today, and I happen to have a meeting scheduled with my boss anyway. So I'll just go over...

Argh, I'm coming up empty here! I've been working at this agency for 6 months now. We've been asked to evaluate two people on my team: me, and someone else.

I've written my evaluation of myself,...

Deed they do! I knew I made the right call because I felt this HUGE sense of relief. Still feeling it, actually.

Awesome!!

"A while ago it was Charlie Sheen. And then it was Sarah Palin. And then it was Donald Trump," said Richardson, who is a video producer for Make Magazine. "And after a while I realized...

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I took the list of expenses to my employer, and they countered with an additional stipend of $1000 on top of the $2000 offered by the agency that made the additional offer. I joined the...

I'll leave it to a more tech-savvy moderator to walk you through that. Once you get there, I'd recommend the Sniper Kitty image. Under the circumstances, it seems like the best way to go. :-P

Ha, Gmail has a widget for making up a "canned reply" that you can apply as selectively as you want.

As to the documentation, you may want to cc your human resources person on all that too. They...

Kitten, I used to work in broadcasting myself so I have a good idea what you're talking about. At my station one of my colleagues got a series of threatening letters because she was of Jewish...

This morning it occurred to me that I could request the airline to send an employee with me through the security process. It sounds great, but of course it would just attract their attention even...

Yargh, I'm really painting myself into a corner here.

I submitted a list of my expenses to my boss if I were to go. It wasn't in the sense of assuming what they should give me, so much as to give...