Comments on: The Extended Trip

By: raisa

raisa — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:05:46 +0000

@zou bisou I don’t see how going to a family member’s wedding is spending money unjustifiably. Also, Logan hasn’t been on vacation. She has been doing her job from another place, which is possible because of the kind of job she has. (You can blog from anywhere! True Fact.) Logan has been honest about her financial situation (which, despite the fact that the comments section of this website does not skew that way, is the financial situation of many, many people in his country). That has opened up a really good conversation about financial habits and financial decisions, both on this website, and, I would bet, many people’s lives. We don’t talk about how much money we make or how we spend it in a healthy or honest way, in general. I think this website is changing that, and that Logan’s honesty about the poor decisions she’s made and the ways in which she’s trying to do better has been crucial in that change. I guess the price we have to pay for that (on the Internet especially) is unthinking comments like these that serve only to undermine that conversation (and make the commenter feel better about having never, ever, ever made an unwise purchase in his or her life, I’m sure).

By: readyornot

readyornot — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:35:04 +0000

@DON don’t worry, no one takes zou bisou seriously after s/he (I suspect she) went off on how making clothes that fit people appropriately encourages obesity acceptance and is a “drain on society.” Or when she defended the super-precise low tipper.

By: DON

DON — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:23:06 +0000

@zou bisou Hey! Everybody be nice to Logan!

By: lizard

lizard — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:53:31 +0000

@zou bisou its a car crash…..cant look away

By: ThatJenn

ThatJenn — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:28:18 +0000

@Stephanie I know, I actually gasped out loud at that.

(I did once have a $120 bar tab. It was for about 20 people over multiple hours. That doesn’t count.)

By: zou bisou

zou bisou — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:51:37 +0000

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after 3 days…

Also, Logan’s “teehee I’m totally drowning in debt but am super lazy so I’ll just keep spending money unjustifiably” shtick is really effing annoying. Pull yourself together woman!

By: lizard

lizard — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:40:12 +0000

if they just got married, dont you think they might want some time alone?

By: mishaps

mishaps — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:22:28 +0000

I’ve done a meat-share thing in New York, where a group of us got together to buy basically a half of a cow, and we split it up into I think eighths? Even then, that was too much meat for me, sadly.

By: Logan Sachon

Logan Sachon — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:49:04 +0000

SOUTHWEST. no change fees!!!

By: cmoney

cmoney — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:54:21 +0000

Aren’t you paying change fees each time you push your date back? Also, if LGA is really the problem, most airlines will let you change to a different NYC airport for the same price as changing the LGA flight. Since it’s MSP and I’m assuming you are flying Delta, they have flights to all 3 NYC airports. Change to JFK and your transpo problems are solved.

Another alternative is trying to get on a JFK-bound flight standby once you get to the airport. So long as you aren’t checking bags, just get to MSP early and see if you can standby on a JFK bound flight instead of your own. You might even get lucky and your flight to LGA will be overbooked and then you can get bumped and ask to be rebooked on a JFK flight + get the voucher to be used on future flights.