mmm... $600 phone.

Wrote a post on the total cost of an iPhone, Pet, Car, and “Other Things” (other things being your kid and your house) on the Mint Blog.

I thought about going pretty analytical with the numbers, pouring over the usual stuff like opportunity cost, if you had saved the money and invest it at blah blah instead, you’ll get four gazillion dollar from forgoing your latte. Or something like that.

But then I went ahead and just sort of preached my opinion on personal finance — depsite the site name, it’s okay to spend money (responsibly)! Read the post to find out more.

I’ve also hosted the 109th Carnival of Personal Finance. And boy… that took a longer time to put together than I thought. All I really did was organize links, write/edit brief descrption for some of the submissions… and it took almost 7 hours? I now have a new-found appreciation for past carnival host, and will never do it again.

Now that I think about it… it probably took awhile because I had to pour through all the entry to find their first post. It was a pretty good idea, till I was three hours into it looking up stuff.

I probably shouldn’t mention this, but next week will be the return of the Stop Buying Crap series. Care to take a guess on what Stop Buying Crap #20 will be?