Comments | chanaleh: The Simple Dollar

chanaleh

The Simple Dollar

Jun 09, 2010 22:54

After getting dismissed early from rehearsal tonight, I made a grocery run to Trader Joe's, then took a rare detour over to Whole Foods. As a result -- even though it meant I didn't get home until 10pm -- rather than a slice of crappy takeout pizza, I am dining on fresh asparagus and caprese salad (using the basil I'm growing myself, on my porch). ( Read more... )

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Comments 7

c1 June 10 2010, 05:43:47 UTC

Strange that they list the cost of pineapple as fluctuating. I've been getting them year round for about three bucks, no matter where I look. Similarly, clementines are about seven bucks for five pounds.

eudociainboston June 10 2010, 13:34:58 UTC

The missing money is legit- it turns out that I had an account in FL from 10 years ago and they sent me a nice check. It helped when we needed to replace our dishwasher last week.
I generally like The Simple Dollar too.

chuckro June 10 2010, 14:27:59 UTC

I may print out the Make Your Own Cream-Of-____ Soup and paste it in the recipe book next to my mother-in-law's recipes that use canned cream of mushroom. The biggest problem with those is always that there's too much salt, and if I could control that...

The math on the "having a child is cheaper than you think" article is a bit dicey, though. You can save $3,000 on taxes! Woo! Except that assumes you're spending $12,000 over a year in child care. And even if you magically reduce your grocery bills by 20% by shopping more efficiently, on my numbers that's only $1,200 or so. (Which seems absurd to being with unless you impulse-buy like crazy, because you're buying food for more people, plus diapers, toiletries, etc.)

eudociainboston June 10 2010, 16:21:45 UTC

His math is a little weird and I chalk that up to his living somewhere in the middle of nowhere where childcare/groceries/housing is cheap. There is still good stuff in his general message.

jethrien June 10 2010, 18:34:18 UTC

Yeah, the $1000 Chicken probably would be a lot better with reduced sodium. I love that stuff, but wow do we go through the beverages when we serve it.

chenoameg June 10 2010, 14:44:09 UTC

Thanks, I liked the links to the simple dollar!

laurens10 June 11 2010, 00:48:34 UTC

I love GTD! I also love: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/