the green chest

Category: Money

  • woo-hoo!!!

    This was a sweet email to receive from ever-encouraging mint.com. I (somehow) resisted DBF’s awesome temptations this weekend and deposited $35 worth of savings in my account to complete my goal. After some eye-opening, heart-wrenching and hilarious author presentations, I have added this, this and this to my list of potential holiday gifts! As if…

  • post o’ announce-ments!

    What a whirlwind few weeks. Have you felt it? End of summer/beginning of fall always seems like a whirlwind of some kind. Hurricanes included.   I’m stalling. I have announcements! Not one, not two, not even three, but FOUR tidbits of news! (Stay with me, the last is exciting!) ANNOUNCEMENT #1: I was laid off. (It…

  • oh mama.

    This challenge is getting a little dire, my friends. Here’s a screen grab from my Mint.com “Budgets” section for the month of July. Can you guess what red means? Not good. To be fair (to myself), the over budget on the Mobile Phone category included an advance payment to my mother for my portion of…