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Here’s a little confession: while I’m doing a great job being frugal in certain areas of my life, such as food, clothing, and entertainment, one area where I’m doing a terrible job is transportation. I’m a frequent reader of Mr. Money Mustache, and every time he punches someone in the face for having a ridiculous commute, I get a little ashamed of my own transportation situation.
See, I work in one of the most expensive cities in the country. To rent a studio would cost a minimum of around $1000. But my fiancé and I happen to have a ridiculously sweet deal on housing: we rent a 3 bedroom house (that’s practically falling apart) for $1000. The catch is, it’s 4 cities away and an 18 mile commute to my office. We do mitigate the commute costs by carpooling in a hybrid. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned from MMM it’s that you should ditch your car in favor of a bike. Unfortunately, even if I could do an 18 mile bike commute to and from work every day, my fiancé’s job requires that he have a car, so the car would still be making the drive.
So I always have the thought in the back of my mind, “sure, I can’t bike my commute NOW, but eventually when we move I’ll do it.” And thus, I never purchased a bike.
For the past year or so I’ve been dabbling in investing in 
I was catching up on some of the blogs I follow, and a post over at Thousandaire caught my eye. The post was titled “
This is a guest post by Stewart Bradley, following up on 
Yesterday I wrote about the 
I used to go to a high end salon where I paid $60 per haircut. But after a few mediocre haircuts and an awful first experience getting my hair colored, I switched to a higher end salon near my office where I paid $90 per haircut (but stuck to coloring my hair at home from a box). It wasn’t until I pulled out my wallet to pay for my latest haircut at the overpriced salon that they informed me my stylist’s prices had gone up – to $120! I was flabbergasted. I asked why they didn’t tell me about the enormous price increase when I scheduled the appointment, and the woman said “well we increased our prices a month ago, I would have thought you’d already known about it.” I call bullshit. It was just terrible service. But terrible service aside, the place doesn’t take credit cards, and I didn’t bring enough cash to pay the bill and leave my stylist a decent tip, so I ended up having to stiff my stylist and leave him a crappy tip.
