Over at Beating Broke, the question was asked, "Are we doing personal finance wrong?" It's hard to truly condense the post because it touched on a lot of points. The overall idea seems to be that our natural instincts (even after all the frugal training we've done) tend toward the materialistic life of the Joneses. That the desire to have Continue Reading
Archives for March 2013
Want to save money? Get your teeth cleaned.
Everyone knows that cleanings are important. They help avoid gum disease. You'll catch cavities early on. (So you won't, say, get to the point that you'll need a $850 root canal and crown like I did last April.) Unfortunately, since being out of college -- and, therefore, not having my mom schedule cleanings for me during breaks -- I've Continue Reading
Must. Control. Fist of Death.
So the tissue tests came back as normal. Next step, genetic testing. Except when I went to the site, there was no number on the site. To, you know, contact them for services. Nor was there a contact number (except for the national ones) anywhere on the parent company's site. I did a quick web search and found a local number. Only to navigate Continue Reading