Stop spending money like a drunken Kennedy

I’ve had to stop being a Kennedy, as business is just not what it once was. And I discovered that going out to the bars is expensive (and boring). Now I’m going to try and have fun spending as little money as possible in ‘08.

But in a homage to the Kennedy way, I’m ordering one last expensive thing in ‘07: a dog bed from L.L. Bean for my black Lab. If that doesn’t scream Hyannisport, I don’t know what does.

I’m an iTunes junkie, so in a good step to this goal, I’ve decided to go on hiatus from buying songs through the end of the year. I spend an average of $30 a month at the iTunes store, so to get my new music fix I decided to give a one-month last.fm subscription a try. They have streaming music stations for every artist you can think of, and I’m hearing a lot of songs I may not have stumbled across on my own. It’s $3 a month, and even if I decide to stop subscribing I can still listen to and scrobble the music to my account. A small step towards the effort to stop spending money like a drunken Kennedy. More to come as I get poorer. lol. :-)