It’s almost the new years and today I got a ton of shipping notifications from all the boxing day shopping I did from various stores online. One thing that surprised me was how for very simple items the company opted to ship it from a warehouse that is on the other side of the country. […]
New years is coming up and one thing I was thinking of doing was taking a new classes which of course would involve some additional expense. At first it doesn’t sound too bad where it’s like $120/month. However, add that up for the whole year and it will easily be $1440 without tax yet. People […]
I saw this interesting report from Facebook today where it supposedly shows data on the most popular days that people got engaged back in 2014. Those days were Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and Valentine’s Day. While this is an engagement and not a wedding day, I would imagine that a lot of […]
For a lot of adults I find that our version of giving Christmas gifts is simply taking people out for dinner as a way to get your friends and family together. It should be about spending time together anyways I feel. This brought up a topic about budget and how much one would have to […]
Since this trip was an extremely last minute notice sort of deal I haven’t really budgeted for it appropriately. Essentially, my budgeting process was basically organizing how much I total I would need to spend at minimum and then comparing that with the funds that I have set aside for such a scenario. It all […]
Looks like I will be doing some traveling this week and that meant scouting for good ticket deals. While there are a multitude of search engines you could use such as Kayak.com or even Google’s own search to get ticket prices from the major airlines to compare, the final bill is funny to look at. […]