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You may ask yourself, where is that large automobile

By ~LS~ On August 14, 2003 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Family, Money, Obligatory Links

My Car is a SLUT!

I can’t call my car “widow” anymore; she’s seeing someone new.

Steve bought a new Aerio sedan, white this time. Dealing with the whole car thing has been pretty interesting. Our insurance company is Progressive. Steve wrecked the car on Friday. By Wednesday, we had the payout check in our hands to put a deposit down on a new car! Progressive rocks!

We also have the honor of being the first people to wreck a 2003 Aerio. I don’t know if this is true or not, but that’s what the Progressive adjuster said. He said they didn’t have the value of the car in their database.

We got really lucky. Progressive said since we had made only ONE car payment, they would pay the manufacturers’ suggested retail price of the vehicle, based on our purchase agreement, rather than the street value of the car (which [...]

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Birthday Catchup Blog Entry

By ~LS~ On July 28, 2003 · Add Comment · In Humor, The Quotidian (yadda yadda), The Web, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Age, Food, I'm 40, Money, Nigerian Scam, Trivia

I woke up this morning to balloons, a birthday bouquet, and a cup of coffee. Life is good. I got email greetings from a bunch of folks including one from the cleaning chick and another funny one from Joshie. This afternoon I will have Gambino’s gourmet birthday cake. Tonite I am going to Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. When I lived in Austin as an undergrad, my roommate (coincidentally, her name was Ruth) told me that she heard Ruth’s Chris steakhouse, which was a Texas-based chain, was named after Ruth’s husband (or maybe her son…) who ran the steakhouse and then died, so Ruth kept the name in honor of him. Once, I mentioned this to Tracy who pshawed at me and told me Ruth was from New Orleans. So I looked it up on the web today and found out that not only was Tracy right, but Ruth [...]

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What is that beautiful house – We're Virgin Homeowners

By ~LS~ On September 5, 2002 · Add Comment · In This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Books, Family, Money

Life has been extremely complicated lately. On June 28, Steve and I bought our first home. Yes, we are a little late in the game, but we both don’t really want to grow up. Buying a first house was a stressful and time-consuming experience, as everyone warned. I didn’t believe them. Until I was in the thick of it. Then I learned.

In the process I did find this great book called The Virgin Homeowner, by Janice Papolos, which taught me about the structural aspects of a house. The book rocked. I showed it later to the home inspector, who also bought it and said he will now recommend it to all his new homeowner clients. Also, as everyone said, we will collect a number of stories about house-buying. And they were right about that as well.

For instance, the alarm company ripped us off while they were [...]

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Finding Found Money on the Internet

By ~LS~ On May 1, 2002 · Add Comment · In How to do stuff, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Money

When surfing the internet I often do strange things I might not otherwise do. Like spend money. Well, no, actually I spend money all the time. I’m terrible with money. My husband Steve says I hemorrhage money. But on the internet, when your credit card account is saved and all you have to do is hit enter, spending money becomes oh-so-easy. And isn’t that the point?

So, here’s another confession. I paid to join Classmates.com. No point in putting a link to them since they advertise incessantly, but what’s a blog without links? Classmates.com sends annoying emails telling you that someone from your school just joined. Utterly annoying. I didn’t like most of those people in the first place. High school sucked. I don’t know why I wasted my money; I was consumed by the haze of a click-happy fit of nostalgia, I suppose.

On the classmates.com [...]

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Simple Abundance

By ~LS~ On April 25, 2002 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Books, Capitalism, Consumption, Gratitudes, Money

I must have wanted simple abundance in my life. I cannot imagine why I might otherwise buy this book. Simple Abundance, by Sarah Ben Bretnach. I hardly think the Oprah Book Club sticker on the cover was a selling point. Simple Abundance is a “daybook” diary/journal that teaches readers to “simplify” their lives through consumption. The message is so ironic. One one page, Breathnach tells readers to discard all their glossy women’s magazines because they make us feel bad about ourselves and then on the next, in the very idiom of those glossies, she tells us to go shopping in order to discover our “authentic” selves. For instance, here is a representative quote from the Simple Abundance website:

Visit a hat store and try on a variety of chapeaux. You’re dashing in a black felt fedora, but perhaps the broad-brimmed straw with the cabbage rose has captured your [...]

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It’s All About the Galleons

By ~LS~ On December 12, 2001 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Geek, Harry Potter, Money, Movies, Pop Culture

Harry Potter is all the rage, of course. Some people are happy about that and others aren’t. Crooked Dimwit is one of those who isn’t.

Annoyed and exhausted by the Harry Potter hype, Crooked Dimwit argues that the media overstates Harry’s pre-eminence at the box office. Because the rating system ignores inflation, HP rankings are actually exaggerated. When adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind ranks the highest grossing movie of all time while HP ranks well at the bottom half of the top 100 box office earners. As an aside, I just HAVE to point out that GWTW has *sixty* years of re-releases added into its total whereas HP has been released for, what, three weeks? In sixty years, we’ll see who’s the head boy, bucko.

I personally think commercialization besmirches the beloved HP books. True, a lot of people think that the [...]

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