Showing posts with label good decisions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label good decisions. Show all posts

Monday, September 21, 2009

:: House hunting ::

Lately, and with increasing regularity, I've been browsing MLS.ca for houses, and Christene has since become as addicted to doing it as I have. Today, she found a nice rancher in Walnut Grove, and messaged me to tell me about it. After I checked it out, we compared notes.

Christene: It's a nice little house, and there's even a big wall for your TV.
Me: Yeah, it looks pretty nice.
Christene: Backyard is a pretty big, too.
Me: Yep. You could build a nice deck back there.
Christene: Or even a wrestling ring!

This is why I keep her around, folks. For brilliance like that.

Sunday, September 28, 2008

:: Financial responsibility ::

Pretty much my whole life, I've been very responsible with my money. Even when I worked only a day or two a week while in high school and college, I still managed to save enough cash to do all the stuff I wanted to do - which was mostly drink and buy video games. As a result of my ability to save, very rarely in my life have I not been able to do something I wanted to do because of money, or lack thereof (within reason, of course. It's not like I could ever afford to jet off to Australia for 6 months, just 'cuz).

And the last few years, responsibility has reared it's ugly head again - the first thing I did with my money was pay off student loans, my car and bought a townhouse. Cristal, hookers and blow it ain't, but that's just me.

Such financial thriftyness would seem to come in handy right about now, because I have an expensive fall coming up - which is usually "save time" after an always-expensive summer. But I'm going to kamloops in 3 weeks to hang out, followed immediately by Vegas a week later. And closer to home, I am in need of purchasing a new mattress/box spring, as well as a new washer/dryer, as mine could explode at a moment's notice.

However, my money concerns were slightly abated last week when I discovered, tucked into my passport, $300 in traveller's cheques from trip to Vegas last April, which I thought I'd redeposited at the bank upon my return, but apparently not. Score.

So, what did I do? Reinvest that cash into my upcoming Vegas trip? Perhaps look into buying some new appliances before my current ones explode in a hail of metal, fire and Bounce sheets? Or hell, maybe live dangerously and just put it back into my savings account?

All good options, for sure. All smart ideas.

So I bought some new golf clubs instead.