by Teri Cettina | Feb 8, 2012 | Health & Fitness, Insurance
For the past two weeks, we’ve been running a “chicken urgent-care clinic” in our backyard. Well, sort of. We have three backyard chickens. Urban chickens are a huge deal here in Portland, Oregon. To our family, Lily, Ernestine and Cocoa are pets–just as if they...
by Teri Cettina | Oct 21, 2010 | Budgeting, Frugality, Health & Fitness, Insurance
Just read a helpful article by Gregory Karp about changes in FSA accounts for 2011. The highlights: You won’t be able to get FSA reimbursements for over-the-counter medications like pain relievers. Well, you CAN, but you’ll have to get a prescription from...
by Teri Cettina | Oct 10, 2008 | Cars, Insurance
A few weeks ago, my husband was hit while he was driving to work. It was clearly the fault of the person behind him, thank God. And my husband was fine (except for a sore neck). However, it looked like our Honda was a hair away from being totaled and we did NOT want...
by Teri Cettina | Jun 24, 2008 | Health & Fitness, Insurance
Interesting analysis here in a podcast by MIT professor Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. I agree: Our health insurance costs have gone up much more than our gas...
by Teri Cettina | Jun 20, 2008 | Health & Fitness, Insurance
As if managing our own little family’s money wasn’t hard enough, I’m also in charge of my elderly dad’s financial life. He’s in his 90s and has pretty severe dementia, so it’s absolutely necessary that I step in. Last fall, Dad...
