My Daily Dollars

Earned: $3928    Spent: $195    Saved: $76
Hooray! Payday is finally here. My check this month includes the overload payment for the extra class I taught in the fall semester. Still no travel reimbursement. Cross your fingers that I’ll see some of that this month. I did manage to send $1048 to the credit cards. My total [...]

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I came across this interesting post on Wise Bread about farmers’ markets. The author wondered how frugal markets are and decided to compare the prices at her farmers’ market and her grocery store. While she found that her purchases were slightly more expensive this week, I agree with many of the comments on the post. [...]

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Earned: $0 Spent: $250 Saved: $0
It’s my last morning in San Francisco, and I’m enjoying a leisurely lie-in before facing the airport. The conference was good; I ran into my old mentor and several friends from graduate school. I also heard some interesting papers and have good ideas for my academic writing this summer. More [...]

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