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8 Rules for Successful Gift-Giving on a Budget

March 12, 2018 by Barnaby

My mom received a gift of yoga classes from my sister for Christmas. Mom isn’t exactly a zen-type person, so I wondered how it was going. “What do you think? Is yoga fun or no?” “I’m tired and sore,” she said. “I’m not a happy person.” Ahhh, the failed gift. I know it well. I’ve […]

Filed Under: Misc Finance, Saving Money Tagged With: cash gifts, diy gift, experience gift, gift cards, gift giving on a budget, saving money on gifts, your presence is the best present

I Get Dinged Doubly By Baltimore’s Automated Traffic Cameras

March 5, 2018 by Barnaby

Living in Baltimore is like living in a police state when it comes to traffic laws. There are high-volume citation-mailing signal and speed cameras everywhere around the city. Fines are $40 a pop for speeding, $75 for signal violations. Checkered History Started in 1999 and at one time the largest program in North America, it […]

Filed Under: Misc Finance, Politics & Finance Tagged With: baltimore speed cameras, moving violation expense, traffic citation, traffic violation fines, usps informed delivery

A Valuable Discovery in the Maine Woods

January 29, 2018 by Barnaby

Last August, Nora and Pippa were in Maine, visiting Nora’s college roommate Fiona. She lives in South Paris, which has beaucoup French-speaking residents, but that’s where the similarities to its eponymous sister city end. No complaints though. Maine is truly “The Way Life Should Be,” as its state motto affirms. Even for non-coastal cities like […]

Filed Under: Misc Finance Tagged With: christian foundation, do the right thing when no one is watching, south paris maine, the way life should be

I’ll Give You My Spare Change if You Let Me Feel Superior

December 26, 2017 by Barnaby

Living in Baltimore, I’ve developed a hard shell. Everyone has a story. Everyone wants your spare change. I’ll cop to sometimes ignoring someone on the street or at a gas station when I don’t have the time or patience for it. I was in one of those moods when we were driving I-70 in Western […]

Filed Under: Misc Finance Tagged With: love others as yourself, mini mart encounter, spare change

When My Dad Almost Struck Gold

December 18, 2017 by Barnaby

My dad grew up in New York state on the North Fork of Long Island. In 1952, when he was 16, his widowed step-grandmother Vera announced she was moving to Oil City, Pennsylvania. But first, she wanted to simplify and downsize. Would my dad be interested in buying her gold coins at face value? At […]

Filed Under: Misc Finance Tagged With: coin collecting, executive order 6102, gold reserve act of 1934, hoarding of gold coins, liberty gold coins, money regrets

Fall Vignettes – Interesting Odds and Ends

November 20, 2017 by Barnaby

This is my 2nd go at a Vignette post (read the Summer Vignettes here), I hope you find it entertaining or helpful. Let me know what you think. I Don’t Recommend Hanging It on Your Exterior Door It’s almost that time of year. Time to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Time for eggnog and Christmas […]

Filed Under: Misc Finance Tagged With: dean of etiquette, delaying car repairs, jv blog team, money wreath, pf vignettes, saving money on home heating

Guess Who’s One Year Old?

September 25, 2017 by Barnaby

This week marks one year since I started this blog – my one year Blogiversary. I’ve faithfully put up a fresh post every week – 52 of them in all. That’s about 48 posts more than the average new blogger makes it, I think. Honestly, I didn’t know how long I’d be able to sustain […]

Filed Under: Misc Finance Tagged With: blog anniversary, blog birthday, blogiversary

4 Terrible and 1 Great Idea for Student Scholarship Application Essays

September 18, 2017 by Barnaby

I’m an amateur expert in judging scholarship application essays. I’m an active member (and frequent judge) of a professional association that gives $7,000 in scholarships to college students, and I also read a lot of Nora’s student scholarship essays to give students some informal feedback. You might remember that Nora works in a school. With […]

Filed Under: Kids & Finance, Misc Finance Tagged With: college food insecurity, ideas for scholarship application essays, telling your unique and compelling story

9 Life and Finance Lessons from “Alexander Hamilton” Biography by Ron Chernow

August 28, 2017 by Barnaby

This isn’t a book review. Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton biography has been out for more than a decade, and its been analyzed and dissected every which way, especially since the explosive success of the musical Hamilton. Which is how I came to it. Kinda how teen fans of the movie Twilight fell backwards into the […]

Filed Under: Misc Finance Tagged With: alexander hamilton biography, david and bathsheba, faith is rewarded, hamilton oneida academy, hamilton the musical, horatio alger rags to riches, ron chernow, stephenie meyer's twilight

Summer Vignettes – Interesting Odds and Ends

July 9, 2017 by Barnaby

These are things that I’ve found interesting but they don’t each deserve their own post, so I’m combining them in a series of vignettes. I’ve never done this before, let me know what you think of this approach. First World Problems I started a grocery list, left it on the counter, and came back to […]

Filed Under: Misc Finance Tagged With: campaign against fracking in maryland, freedompop, overheard at camden yards, seascape motel, summer pf vignettes

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