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On Justin Bieber's Manager Is Rich, Kind of a Genius
I find Justin Bieber's manager so interesting. Did you know that when he was a teenager he made a documentary that's still shown in the Holocaust Museum in DC? Did you know that he's ambiguously kind-of-attractive in that oh-no-I-couldn't-he-looks-like-a-young-version-of-my-dad sort of way and a reason not to doze off during a viewing of Never Say Never with the neighbor kids you're babysitting? Also, he tweeted this great series of jokes about terrible Old Testament-inspired tattoos he was planning to get after the Biebs got ginormo-Jesus on the back of his calf. (Yes, I follow him on twitter. He follows me, too, actually, and once messaged me "lol" after I made a hilarious joke about putting wine in my neighbor kids' tippy cups - so I'm kind of a big deal.)
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On Surviving the Financial Aftermath of Your Parents' Divorce
@ASCtvartedun This is not useful for any divorced child of the 99%. I'm not sure the goal of this piece was to be "useful" or to act as a "guide" in any particular sense of the word. It's pretty consistent with the format of other Billfold content we see semi-regularly.
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On Surviving the Financial Aftermath of Your Parents' Divorce
This isn't my life at all, but I appreciate the way this piece conveys the shock of losing privileges one didn't really realize s/he had. Okay, maybe it is kind of my life, in that I grew up on the comfortable end of the middle class, moved back home after college to get my bearings, wound up staying much longer than I thought I would (I'm 23), and have had to suddenly and quickly move out after a physical altercation with my father (the physicality was all on his end of things; I mostly stood there and screamed "did you really just HIT me?!"). I thought I had a handle on what a reasonable lifestyle is and should cost, but so much shit I've taken for granted - cell phone, netflix subscription, the privilege of owning a car and having a place to park it - costs so much more than I'd really considered.
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On Am I Too Cheap for AC?
...and you will magically stop buying ice cream or refreshing beverages or eating out if you have air conditioning? This logic seems flawed, somehow.
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On Uber Using Ice Cream as a Gateway Drug
@redheaded&crazy How do you know you wouldn't have bought that ice cream anyway, though, even if you HAD been buying breakfast all week? /is the justification I use. "I'm still saving money I would've bought this either way OKAY wallet OKAY????!?"
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On Changing Jobs
Seems reasonable - I can think of 4 friends off the top of my head who've been promoted or transitioned to new workplaces over the past 6 months.
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On How The American Express Gift Card Became the Bane of My Existence
@Jenn@twitter Agreed. Sometimes I hate the Billfold (and that sometimes is anytime I actually click into the comments from google reader).
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On How The American Express Gift Card Became the Bane of My Existence
@MuffyStJohn Not being able to check the balance is a pretty big inconvenience imo.
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On Monday Check-In: How Was Your Spending?
Friday: $24 dinner&drinks with friends Saturday: $6 gift for a friend $35 dinner&drinks&frozen yoghurt with friend Sunday: nil. It's not outRAGEous, but I definitely went a little bit over the top. I normally budget $100/month for nights out with friends, and the fact that I spent more than 50% of a month's budget in 2 nights is a little shocking.
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On Tuesday Check-In: The Long Weekend
Rent/utilities ($575) and the repair bill for my scooter ($390) notwithstanding, this weekend I spent: $170 - plane ticket to visit Some Boy $33 - 9/1 groceries for dinner with said Boy $31 - 9/2 lunch in the park with said Boy, followed by sushi that evening $13 - 9/3 lunch with said Boy and a Shirley Jackson anthology purchased at the used book store nextdoor and a total of $32 spent at various coffee shops over the course of the weekend. I don't think $289 is too terrible for a 3-day vacation. I definitely could've resisted buying a cup of coffee every what, 4 hours? but other than that I have no regrets.