Trustfund: A Poem

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Where have you gone to? Why have you run up and gone, leaving me so blue? You mislead and deceived Leaving me destitute in my time of need Please open up and tell me what’s inside From me you can run, but cannot hide 23 with a money tree Sitting on a yacht it’s the […]

Nobody Gets Me: The Costliness Of Fighting The Good Fight

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It was Sunday afternoon, and there I sat, on my living room couch wrapped in a towel, scouring the incredibly complex menu of spa services listed on the W’s Bliss Spa website. Trying desperately to navigate the site, I finally gave up, dropping my head into my hands, I sighed “why is my life so […]

Take Your Money Out Of Your Mouth

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Ah, the New Year.  Don’t you love it, all ripe with its promise of new beginnings, crash diets, and better behavior? I know I do.  As part of putting my personal finance goals together for the New Year, I decided to take a look at my spending for 2011.  Most of my money went to rent, […]

Dear Paper: I Hate You.

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Why is it that everything that involves paper is so complicated? I live in constant fear that at any moment someone could come over and ask me to do something that involves paper. This sounds weird I’m sure. But let’s think about it for a moment, shall we? Is there a task involving paper that […]

Dealing With Debt: Paying Off Student Loans

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By Dylan Brenneman Being in debt is the worst. I, like many others, went to college under the pretense that my father’s obligatory “college savings fund” would pick up the bill. Four years later, it turns out that really would end up footing ¾ of the bill. The other ¼ of my college tuition was […]

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