NEW APARTMENT IN JUNE?
BF and I are in the process of looking at new apartments to move into after our May lease is up.
Well, I lied. BF is looking, I’m bouncing along for the ride and checking out places with him.
As long as we don’t go over the $575 a month I already pay for rent (parking + rent alone), I was cool with anything.
And much cooler with a SMALLER space (no bedroom required).
So we checked out apartments all around the city and the island, and turns out we’re better off staying in our building, but moving to a different floor and into a smaller studio.
I could drop my rent to $445/month each which would be a savings of $130/month.
Every little bit counts!
Real Simple says it doesn’t have to be difficult to haggle with your health insurance company. A couple of good tips are to not procrastinate (a good life rule in general), and take detailed notes about who you talked to, when and what about.
Why the hell do companies think that women want everything in pink with makeup and a mirror? WHY? WHY!? Check out this “female-laptop concept” showcased by Ubergizmo.
Companies, what I want is CHOICE, in patterns, colours, and sleekness. I don’t want everything in black, I don’t want everything in grey, and I most certainly don’t want it all in PINK.
I would also like y’all to stop making cords ALL BLACK because it’s making it hard to find cords in my bag because they all look the same to me — I had to label each one with a sticker because of your short-sightedness.
Ginger from Girls Just Wanna Have Funds says that white collar women who were pulling in the big bucks before, are losing their jobs, giving up and stripping to make money instead. The owner of one of those strip clubs says he got SO MANY applications from all levels of life, even he was surprised. Watch the video and read the entire article here (along with my comment).
I am sort of a sucker for anything lemon. Lemon tarts, lemon yoghurt, lemon poppyseed, lemon on salmon.. you name it. So when I hear about this recipe from Crumbly Cookie telling us how to make Lemon Poppyseed Waffles, I got excited.
Design is…. via Swiss Miss
Apparently, the magic words of life are not “PLEASE” and “THANK YOU”, it’s “IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO?” Not in caps of course. Free Money Finance says that for negotiation, “Is that the best you can do?” followed by silence can yield some really fabulous results. Give it a shot!
Need some patterns for the background of your Twitter page? Look no further! Here are some really great Twitter Patterns for free. Via Twitter Patterns. But you can only use them on your Twitter pages!!
Starting a business and need some venture capital for it? Studenomics gives you the 10 basic but different sources of capital you can drum up easily.
Kevin from Closet Cooking makes a mean looking Osso Buco, which if you didn’t know is “Veal shanks braised in a white wine and tomato sauce”. It sounds incredible and the picture looks incredible!
According to Namby Pamby, Attorney-at-Law, drinking and sex are the 2 greatest cavity preventers. Do you believe it?
Stressed out on Mondays? Real Simple tells us 10 ways to beat the stress of Mondays — some I like, but when you’ve got a LOT to get done, you can’t exactly skip important emails for an hour or two because people get pretty peeved when you don’t answer in a timely manner for a project on deadline.
Is it still tasty? Still Tasty will tell you if it is — like if you left a pizza out over night, is it still okay to eat? The answer for me is Yes, unless it was left out in very hot, humid weather and it sweated bacteria. Read on about all the things you can and cannot eat. Here’s one I find useful: Raw Salmon.
Not geting enough well rested sleep? Dumb Little Man tells us the Google Method to getting better sleep.
My favourite tip is to sleep at the same time every night and wake up at the same time each morning, every single day. Even on weekends. I never miss a day, and if I do, I really feel it in the next day and I have to re-train my body.
Couture Carrie gives us Safari.. but not the nasty zebra mixed with strange prints kind of safari, this is an elegant take on an upcoming (re-hashed, re-worked trend) that I am now starting to be a fan of. Check out all of her wonderful shots from high fashion runways featuring Safari.
Looking for a cool decal for your Macbook? Here’s one of Snow White holding the Apple on your Mac. Via Like Cool. This is such a cool decal I’m thinking of doing that to my Mac.
Ever heard of a Hello Kitty Hospital? Me neither. Apparently K.Rae’s blog Smart! has found it, in Taiwan. I am not surprised at all, because Hello Kitty is HUGE in Asia..
Mary from SimplyForties asks us what the deal is with recyclable beauty product packaging.
Manufacturers are tricksy in making you think that they’re environmentally friendly when in fact all they did was put a green-ish cast on all of their packaging, call it “Naturally Organic (TM)” with 5% organic ingredients and the rest as nasty chemicals and it makes us think they’re fabulous.
You have to be a really conscious eco-friendly consumer these days to see and cut through the hype. Manufacturers don’t bother doing recyclable containers for makeup but it may in fact save them money and gain them a fab reputation for being green as well as being a healthier cosmetic for your body.
Angie from youlookfab teaches us how to work a turquoise scarf (with 4 shots of her in different outfits), which is a nice alternative to the chunky necklace. Personally, I prefer the chunky necklace because scarves are not really my thing unless they’re designer Hermes scarves tied to my bags or something for a bit of flair.
Every Joe suggests we REVERSE our email composition to create a better email. Start with any attachments you need to add (smart idea), move on to the body of what you want to say, make up an ACCURATE subject to describe that body, and then fill in the people last (your list may have changed as you wrote the body of the email). Great tips.
This is too geeky for words. Are you an LOTR fan? (And if you have to ask me what LOTR stands for, you aren’t a fan 
)… here is Minias Tirith recreated in MATCHSTICKS! Via Geekologie.
This is the most romantic, girliest bed, EVER with treetop cut outs and a sweetness that is not totally pink pink pink and in your face. Too bad a man will probably never want to sleep in it. Ever. Via Apartment Therapy.
Eco-Chick reports that there is a $2000 USD car called the Nano from Tata available in India now. Which makes it the perfect price point to put another vehicle on its already clogged streets for approximately 14 million families.
That does not sound fab for Mother Earth, or for the Indians, in my opinion.
Speaking of cars, Living Almost Large (one of my favourite PF-only bloggers) says that in the end, buying a Prius is not really worth the money unless you drive more than 12,000 miles a year. Interesting.
Andrea from QueerCents says that making an oilcloth lunchbag could be a viable solution. She tried Martha Stewart’s recipe for making one and if she’s as bad as a seamstress as I am, I can only imagine the results. Just kidding.
This made me laugh — Classy Chaos calls it the “Fifi Nod“, where her daughter has a technique to get what she wants, and I heard the Head Tilt works too. Kids are too cute for words sometimes.
I agree with Sugar Laws. There is really nothing better than a Smoked Salmon Blini with Creme Fraiche and Caviar. NOM!
Alex from QueerCents retells the story of the way mortgage brokers were doing business back in the day. That is really creepy, and being caught up against the wall when NO ONE will help you is a hard thing to dela with.
The creepiest is the comment the broker said before she left “Now, don’t let this house foreclose!” WTF!
Moving on to funnier things, Namby Pamby, Attorney-at-Law made me laugh with his sense of humour in the morning. And I commented that I only know about lawyers from the information gleaned from movies and TV, and they all seem so dry and serious. So it’s nice to have a lawyer with a sense of humour.
Need some tips on how to deal with a dual office situation in your home? The Unclutterer will show AND tell you how to get ‘er done with design in mind. BF and I don’t ever have a problem because I LOVE using a table and a chair and he likes lying down on the bed with the laptop on his belly.
The fabulous Demoiselles tell us all about Bubble Hems and whether or not it works on each of the 3 ladies’ body types. This is a really fabulous blog that has just started by the way, as a collaboration between 3 women bloggers.
Want to know the 12 most expensive foods on earth? Woman’s Day will tell ya. The funniest were the coffee beans passed (ahem) by a civet cat and sold for around $230/pound.
Moms on the go, take heart! You do NOT need to revert from your once-fashionable and chic self into a sweatpants + flip flops slob. Angie from youlook fab proved that with a on-the-go mother named Laura. Check out the awesome outfit sets of what to wear in the post.
A really fabulous blogger Londyn, posted her amazing closet. The shoes, the necklaces.. all neatly arranged and EXACTLY the way I had my closet before. Part 1 of her Closet was here.
It’s gorgeous. I’ll post pics of my old closet soon, I promise.
Speaking of fashion, I’ve (lately) been enamoured with this blog: What Claudia wore by Kim. Claudia in reference to Claudia Kishi from The Babysitter’s Club (one of my favourite book series as a girl). This recent post of hers made me crack up, especially with that great Photoshopped book near the end.
The Frugal Bachelor kicks our ass by telling us: “PF BLOGGERS AREN’T CHALLENGING ENOUGH!“, and getting out of debt is boring for him to read about now… Which is kind of true. I’m aiming just to pay for my retirement, not end up eating cat food when I die covered in newspapers for warmth, and to have children on the path of financial success and happiness.
I don’t want or feel the need to be a billionaire, or even a millionaire by the age of 30. Arbitrary goals just to pick a number like a million. A better goal would be to figure out what you want to change about the world and do it.
If you are looking for a new frugal blog, FreeShipping.org has launched one! It looks pretty good, and features a couple of posts from PF bloggers all over the blogosphere.
And to end it all on a good note, Tristan from Find Financial Freedom gives us the top tips on how to save money.. the funny ones. I snorted at a couple of them, like the ones on going out to dinner or a date.
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Sweet. I could probably drop my budget down to $1000 a month and still be comfortable. ($203 for entertainment and other).
