cross-posted from MomReviews Image via CrunchBase *deep breath* I need $100 by Thursday. I had been counting on my monthly payout from Linkworth for the text ads I run on Table for Five, but they don't payout unless you earn $100, and I only earned $95.00. The money will get added to my payout for next month, but I leave for BlogHer on Thursday morning. The money will be spent on gas for the car I'm driving there and back (I'm taking 2 other people down and 3 people back, but once the tank of gas the car is delivered with is gone, we'll have to chip in to refill it), lunch on the way there and back, tips for the doorman and any necessary cab rides, and if I have enough, a souvenir BlogHer t-shirt which they've never had before. $100 might not even be enough but I feel bad enough asking for help as it is. I'd also like to point out that while this blog does have text link advertisers, the amounts they are willing to pay are not large, and the money I received … [Read more...]
Here’s the story, of a lovely lady-who-couldn’t-keep-up-with-the-bill-paying
This is the story of how I lost my "job" as the family bill-payer, and how my husband switched from paying bills online and over the phone to writing actual paper checks. Which he put in envelopes with actual stamps and return address labels. Return address labels that I got for free from VistaPrint after choosing from nine pages of designs, all I paid was shipping. It had been so long since I wrote a check, I'm surprised our credit union's fraud department didn't suspect the checks had been stolen from us. For the last, oh, 20 years of our relationship, I have been in charge of paying bills for Chris and I. I used to have this obsession with keeping the checkbook in pristine order. So much so that if I messed up a line, I would make a big X through everything and start over on a new page. I am so not kidding. When I worked at the credit union, I had the perfect setup. I could access my own checking account record from my desktop terminal, so every morning I would meticulously … [Read more...]
Another scary money conversation at my house
From New York Times Business online: "Even before the opening bell, Monday looked ugly. But by the time that bell sounded again on the New York Stock Exchange, seven and a half frantic hours later, $1.2 trillion had vanished from the United States stock market." And from Money.CNN.com: NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- First, the good news: Even if warnings of economic catastrophe aren't enough to win approval of a controversial $700 billion Wall Street bailout, the economy is not at risk of falling into a depression, most experts agree. During the Great Depression, unemployment shot up to as much as 25% in 1933. That came after the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity, plunged 13% the previous year. Millions of people lost their savings when banks closed without any insurance for its customers' deposits. Few economists are predicting economic pain of that magnitude. Now the bad news: Even if the plan to buy up bad mortgage debt from troubled … [Read more...]
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