Just a little (link) love: Benebrick edition
January 30, 2020
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020? Current total: $443.24 for both initiatives.
One Frugal Girl and I are kindred spirits in chronic pain and our pain has been exceptionally bad these past few weeks. I would envy her the financial independence that gives her the ability to not work to pay the bills during her flare-ups, it’s something I don’t have that eats at me, but that would imply that I resent her having it when I don’t. I don’t at all. I’m so glad for her that she does have that ability to not work while having flare-ups. I’m just wistful and wishful that I had made better choices earlier, that I had seen Dad’s fraudulence earlier, that I’d saved my money for myself instead. I’ve never sought FI for travel and glamorous life type reasons. It’s always been self preservation. I just wish I’d seen the self preservation part earlier. I wish a lot of things.
Our immigration policies are ugly and awful and have real consequences for real people.
I watched Togo and was definitely stressed in the tough parts and wanted to read everything about sled dogs (I always do). Blair Braverman came through with a twitter thread on lead dogs.
More Excel formulas to learn! I know a few but I don’t work in Excel that much so there’s lots to work with here.
Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village
I don’t know why this is limited to California but if you want to tell Target not to sell your info, you can! Personally I feel like all companies should be required to not sell info we have given them but that seems unlikely to happen.
Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market
Chronic illness is the worst–I’m with you and thinking about you.
Thanks for linking to my immigration piece. It’s even worse now with the new fee structure…
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Thanks, Diana.
I know it can keep getting worse but it’s a disappointment every time I see it.
RE about why you can limit Target from selling your data: A law passed last year of ‘California Consumer Privacy Act’ took effect on Jan. 1.
Ah! Thanks for that note!
Thanks for linking to my post. I cut a lot of the gory out of it and now I kind of wish I’d left it in. I guess I’ll have to write more about this topic soon. This quote broke my heart a little: “I’m just wistful and wishful that I had made better choices earlier, that I had seen Dad’s fraudulence earlier, that I’d saved my money for myself instead. I’ve never sought FI for travel and glamorous life type reasons. It’s always been self preservation. I just wish I’d seen the self preservation part earlier. I wish a lot of things.” I feel like I lucked into a lot of my savings. I got out of school and started in a high paying career that I never expected. We started saving right off the bat and then the medical stuff propelled me to save more. I am the flip side of your coin with your dad though. My parents provided me with a college education that gave me such a boost towards everything else. I wish you hadn’t struggled both physically and emotionally on that extra front. Modern medicine is always advancing. I hope that they create solutions for those of us who suffer.
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A second post, oh no! 😉 I would love a second quote.
So much of our lives are influenced by luck. I’m glad yours was more good in the other things because you’re a good person and you do good things with your luck.
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