intents and purchases

07.02.07

It’s the Economy, Stupid: July Net Worth Update debt reduction, frugality, goals, intents and purchases, personal finance, real estate, wealth | (0)
Thanks to a random drop in the Zestimate of our house, our net worth plummeted this month: we're down $2848 to a paltry $2873. I have a feeling that number may go back up by next month, however, as the house on the corner of our block just listed for double what ours is currently worth. (Although it's a single, it has no more square footage than our row.) Also, because I calculated our net worth later in the month (June 11) when we had more positive cash flow, our numbers were a bit skewed. So, how ...
07.02.07

Making Memories, Saving Money admin, family, frugality, intents and purchases, photography | (3)
Every Monday is Intents and Purchases day at Living Behind the Curve. On Saturday, we had the pleasure of attending a family picnic at my grandparents' house. When I was small, picnics like this were commonplace, and the entire neighborhood would arrive on Sunday afternoons for fresh local corn and burgers or pizza made lovingly from kits provided by Charlie K's, the pizza stand at the farmer's market. Those days are long gone, but I found great joy in watching my baby sister toddle around the yard, getting into mischief behind the shed just like my brother and I used to. ...
06.25.07

You Don’t Have to Have Money to be Rich goals, intents and purchases, lifestyle, personal finance, wealth | (9)
Every Monday is Intents and Purchases day at Living Behind the Curve. You don't need more money. All the frugality and personal finance bloggers that teach you the esoteric methods of growing your net worth like a vine of plump, juicy tomatoes are wrong. Living with generic toilet paper and suffering through recycled leftovers just so you can have more money is wrong. Money isn't the point. Save me the spluttering and indignant declarations of how you need money to pay for living, and how we can't retire without money, and whatever else. I know that already, and you do too. I'm ...
06.18.07

Spaving: Spend Money to Save Money intents and purchases, personal finance, spaving | (2)
Every Monday is Intents and Purchases day at Living Behind the Curve. Do you remember spaving? It literally means "spending to save". For a summer in the late 90s, it was sort of this kitschy pop culture injoke that the entire country was having with itself. I even remember Oprah doing something on her show about spaving. (That's how I know it was the late 90s, because I was class of '99, and at no time before or since have I ever been at home with the free time to watch Oprah.) It didn't last, though. Go ahead - google ...
06.11.07

Holy Crap! We Have a Positive Net Worth? goals, intents and purchases, personal finance | (0)
Every Monday is Intents and Purchases day at Living Behind the Curve. On Sunday morning, I decided to run a little experiment to see what we are actually worth. Armed with my online account logins and this net worth workbook from Consumerism Commentary, I sat down with a cup of coffee and got to it. I was pleasantly surprised to see that even with 100% financing on the house we bought a year ago, two car loans, credit card debt, and student loan debt, we have a positive net worth. It may only be $5721 - but it's still positive! A ...

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