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Beyond the Consumer
http://beyondtheconsumer.blogspot.com/
A blog on personal finance, budgeting, consumerism, and smart money management.
- Added on: May 26th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: chris
- Listed in: Finance Investing
- Tags: personal finance consumerism financing budgeting materialism money management
Recent Posts
Sharper Image is broken
Sharper Image, the retail store that prides itself on selling little electronic wonders, can't even maintain its own computer system. For the past month, when attempting to find the value of a gift card on its automated system, the phone goes dead af...
Merry Christmas, IRS!
Did anyone get a Christmas bonus this year? I did, and I was quite happy that I received 50% more this year than last year. Unfortunately, I'm also utterly depressed. Why?Last year I received a $500 Christmas bonus. This year, I received $750. Yay! S...
2007 Financial Report
I finally sat down and compiled our 2007 financial report and put together a presentation. Unfortunately the 2008 projections will have to wait, but here are some highlights.Spending on food and utilities are unchanged from last year - though our din...
Unscheduled maintenance account nuked
Today our microwave died. It was a good old microwave and had given its various owners many years of faithful service. Lately however it had begun to act strangely. Last month it inexplicably stopped running. A quick unplug fixed it. Then randomly it...
AT&T lied to my wife
My wife lost her AT&T cellphone. Fortunately, someone found it and returned it, but not before we called AT&T to suspend the account. We also needed to get ourselves a new sim card, and that's when the lies began. The rep told her that she couldn't j...
My available credit exceeds my income
One of our credit card companies (the one we actually use on a regular basis) has once again increased our credit limit by 48%. It really doesn't matter what our limits are, because we only spend what we can afford to pay off immediately. We are fort...
