Summer months, redolant with humidity and mosquitoes, occasionally require a bit of indulgence. In my husband’s imagination, this indulgence expresses itself in the sleek lines of a grill. You’ve reached financial bliss when you have a grill, and our grill-less state indicates otherwise. Of course, the reality of a small NYC apartment dictates that we instead dubiously [...]
Undoubtedly, the trollbots who read this blog have noticed a lack of posts about my consumption. Why? A breather of sorts. Lucky grad student that I am, I find myself employed in a summer job that pays almost as much in three months as an entire year of graduate stipendship. The financial pressure of daily [...]
Today I thought I knew what I would do. But it didn’t work out that way–the needed camera necessary for a trip to the NY Historical Society was hidden somewhere unknown, and with time ticking away, I found my plans unwound into a messy tangle.
Lunch, then, would not arrive with my husband around 1 pm.
So [...]
Image from stickers and donuts.
My one shopping moment of note, this entire semester (if we don’t count the trip up the Swiss mountain), happened late one Wednesday evening, after a three-day marathon of paper writing. I rewarded myself by indulging in a bit an imaginary reality by purchasing two pairs of boldly colored tights [...]
April 14th, 2009. The mad, final push to finish filling out my federal and (two) state income tax forms. I finish. Submit. It gets rejected for my husband typing in his ss# incorrectly. Funny, in that he cannot recall the number assisgned to identify him.
All in all, we “broke even” this year– we owed the [...]
I left a day earlier than my husband for our spring break family reunion, all the result of spending an 8 hour layover in London. I have a college friend who now lives outside London, and we arranged to meet at Paddington station. So my first expense of the trip was to stop at a [...]
I’ve spent a lot of mental money this week. My closet? 90% donated to clothing recycling, 10% retained, and off on a second-hand store spree. Thanks to graduate student finances, and a pile of papers all due on the same day, I have exhibited great restraint. That restraint is why we’re still debt-free, despite [...]
It’s official. My record keeping is a mess.
While cleaning today, instead of paper writing (the ultimate avoidance technique as the house always needs cleaning), I came across a receipt that I don’t want to lose. It’s not for much, a total of $8.33 (cash) spent on a pound of strawberries, a package of over-priced semi-sweet [...]
Expenditures: $20 (cash) on food at Momofuku with a group of fellow food studies grads, one prof and a visitor whose name I do not recall, but has recently published a book on Bengli food. My mental discussion of this expenditure eerily resembles a previous post (What happens if you never accept invitations to socialize [...]
$2.75 (cash) on a slice of pizza from the campus eatery, because I failed to pack lunch, and knew that if I did not eat something, I would find myself a raging mess of emotion and headache in a matter of hours.
$11.81 (cash) at Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable on dinner supplies, plus a splurge on [...]