- Spelunking (My Milk Toof) — One image from this adorable comic pictured above
- Broken Promises and Bank Accounts Part One and Part Two (Girls Just Wanna Have Funds)
- Secondary Income is Hard Work (Finance UR Life)
New Blog Love: Single Mom, Rich Mom
This woman is awesome. She has a great back story and has a witty writing style to boot.
I am currently devouring her archives and these are my picks to read to get a feel for the blog:
- Growing up super-frugal, minimalist and dysfunctional
- The biggest problem with thinking you don’t need money
- Charging adult kids rent
New Blog Love: Thousandaire
I found the blog by stumbling upon it (clicking here, clicking there), and I’m hooked. I like his style of writing and the name is catchy!
Here’s the one that caught my eye and convinced me to RSS feed his blog: I’m so cheap.
Can’t wait to read more of his stuff.
Lastly: How much does peace and quiet cost? $3000 a month apparently.
I’ve moved. Again.
It is within the city I’m working in right now, but in a totally different building. I am now right in the middle of downtown with the privilege of paying $1000 more per month, for a grand total of $3000.
Yes. $3000 a month.
The hotel has:
- En-suite washer and dryer — *tears of happiness at the en-suite washer*
- Triple the space our last hotel apartment had (this one has 3000 square feet)
- Working en-suite dishwasher
- 2 bathrooms (one near to the door of the apartment so I can get ready for work without waking BF)
- 2 rooms: bedroom and office
- Fabulous view
- All the other amenities: internet, cable TV, maid service, free newspapers, sauna, pool, hot tub, gym..
But the ONLY reason why we are paying $3000 a month rather than $2000 for this place is because it isn’t NOISY!!!!
The whole building has actual, thick, beautiful concrete in between the walls and floors, and people here are not ghetto fabulous, and therefore, tend to be less disrespectful, seeing as they know they are living in a huge building with other like-minded people who crave peace and quiet.
So yes. We’re paying a premium for a lack of noise. A $1000 premium per month to be exact. *waves her budget goodbye for November and December*
Oh well. It’s still worth it, and it’s still cheaper than having rented a one-year lease in that crappy building.
I’ve really understood three things from this:
- You get what you pay for (or don’t pay for, in this case)
- Know when to throw in the towel on being ‘cheap’
- Living in a properly built concrete building is totally worth every single red cent
We couldn’t take it any more in the other building, it was just horrific how it was built — all metal and WOOD.
Normal walking sounded like stomping, I felt like the whole building was on the verge of collapsing around us.
Throw in the pipes in the building, the fans, the heating vents and you have a very grumpy couple who couldn’t get a good, solid night’s sleep.
Just a girl trying to find a balance between being a Shopaholic and a Saver.
I cleared $60,000 in 18 months earning $65,000 gross/year.
Now I am self-employed, and you can read more about 
Congrats on the move! You always have something going on with you, always busy, I won't lie, I envy you. I need to make changes and take some risks I think. We shall see. Glad the place has a FABULOUS view! Thanks for the link love!
My recent post Secondary Income Is Hard Work
Well don\’t envy me too much! This moving stuff is getting me annoyed. I\’m about to open a can of whoop ass.
on a somewhat related note – where did the blogroll go? here and at everday min.?
I LOST IT.
Arg. I\’m about to write a post on that but then I thought — maybe I should just rebuild it and then hope no one notices.
Something\’s been screwing around in WordPress lately for me (a plugin maybe?) or I\’m just stupidly clicking on things I shouldn\’t.
I need to rebuild the whole thing…
I've gotten so much traffic from your recommendation I had to thank you properly. Make sure you go to my blog and get your "thank you". 🙂
http://www.thousandaire.com/2010/10/09/thank-you-…
Already did that. 🙂
This is a first for me. Never had a song written about me, FOR me. Thank you so much! Glad you got lots of blog lovin\’ from a single link.
Thanks for the blog recommendation. Great find.
Any time. They\’re great blogs!
Thanks for the links Fab! And Kevin's (Thousandaire) blog is sooo funny too. I think I'd like to date him… or maybe his dad… 🙂
For $2k / month I would have expected something as simple as peace and quiet. I've lived in plenty of apartment buildings before that were more along the ghetto class than ghetto fab – but they didn't have noise problems.
Any time 😉
$2k was not peaceful or quiet, because it was a low-cost hotel apartment in this city. I\’m still annoyed over that.
At any rate, $3k is the real price for peace and quiet here, hitting $4k if you want to go extravagant.
I know what you mean about the cost of peace & quiet. I recently moved to save on rent. Total savings was significant and definitely is helping with me with my debt repayment goals. However, my new place is so noisy I've actually had to complain to the building management and even have knocked on my neighbors door to ask them to quiet down. I can't up and move right now, but I can totally relate.
It\’s worth it. Peace and quiet I mean… that being said, if I was still in debt, I\’d put up with the noise just so I could clear my debt and get the hell out of there, so I hear ya.
Thanks for the love FB! And congratulations on getting into a new place that isn't so noisy. In my apartment, my neighbor has one of those small dogs that barks all the time for no reason, and I'm this close | | to buying an electric shock bark collar, wrapping it up all nice and pretty, and leaving it on his doorstep.
I love your philosophy of being responsible with your money, but also spending what you have on things you really want. I can't wait to go back through and read some of your other stuff.
Thanks again for the love!
Any time! Keep writing. 🙂
(P.S. small dogs that bark all the time are scared and probably alone. leaving the radio on might help them feel like a human is there… but sometimes it can be a question of the owner not having trained them properly)