This post is really directed to anyone studying full-time or living on their own and working so much that the mere thought of making healthy meals tires you out. Grad students’ situations just exemplify the worst of it.
The great thing about being single is being able to cook all of your own food (to put [...]
November 8, 2009 · 14 comments
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I’m an extremely cautious bull on the current markets. Cautious, because, if a few criteria are met, the mini bull market (or bear market rally, if you prefer) we’ve seen since March 2009 could easily tip over and provide the catalyst for the hypothetical “double-dip recession.”
Commentators have recently been pointing out the fact that the [...]
This is a fun problem I’ve thought about in the past, though never specifically with regard to money. With the recent personal finance bloggers’ weight loss challenge I’m participating in, though, I thought it made sense to try to integrate it with money management.
I once went on a very strict no-sugar diet (no sweeteners, no [...]
Too bad it wasn’t the other way around: hard to spend money and easy to lose weight, right? Why is it just the opposite? We spend money on food and then we get it back in the form of fat (unless we’re really active and good about all of our food choices) — and I’m [...]