Worked my way through graduate school, leaving me with no time for a social life, earning a dean's list average despite the long hours - and having done so and then gone out to seek work, discovered the truth of the old adage - it's not what you know, it's who you know. I knew nobody, and have been trapped below the poverty line ever since.
Getting by on a tight budget is a lifelong challenge and learning experience. This blog, in part, will be about going through that experience, and managing to do so with a little style, enjoying a few simple, inexpensive pleasures along the way.