Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Budgeting on Apr 20th, 2008
From me anyway.
The Washington Post has a story that’ll make you sigh and think to yourself, “What the hell?”
It’s all about the IRS and how they hire private debt collectors to go after the $1 billion dollars in taxes has gone goes unpaid since 1996.
Unpaid taxes: $1 billion
Money collected: $49 million
Cost to run the program: [...]
Posted in alternative income on Apr 18th, 2008
So I’ve been hearing about this “new Paypal” for a while now and I finally decided to take the plunge. Join up and get $25 for free by clicking here. I’ll get $10 by the way for each person that signs up. Pretty sweet, huh?
This offer is over, thanks to everyone who signed up!
Posted in Happiness, Jobs, Motivation on Apr 18th, 2008
I was reading something over on Get Rich Slowly (I just can’t remember which article it was, I visit the site every day) that basically asked readers what their dream job was. Dream job was defined as the job you would do if you weren’t getting paid. It reminded me of my series of posts [...]
I’ve written about Iwillteachyoutoberich.com before, but last week I read another one of those posts where I’m just like, “Ramit, this is why you are the man.”
This was is about tax refunds and the existing belief (taken as pretty much gospel in the blogosphere and in personal finance in general) that getting a refund is [...]
Posted in Happiness, Money and Relationships, Outside the box on Apr 17th, 2008
Whenever I come into some money (tax rebate, freelance check, bonus, etc.), I usually save it. Save, save, save—that’s my mentality right now as I shoot for a $10,000 down payment for a place to live.
But recently M and I have come into some money that has a whole different set of circumstances behind it [...]
Posted in alternative income on Apr 16th, 2008
It seems like eons ago, but back in the day (when I was in grad school, not working, and had a ton of time on my hands) I thought I wanted to be a teacher. Maybe not to that extent, but I knew I wanted to at least try teaching. OK maybe that’s off the [...]
Posted in Happiness on Apr 15th, 2008
Last week I wrote about my feelings regarding the new TV that was given to M and I as a very generous shower gift. I got some pretty good feedback so I thought I would share the news that we finally went out there and picked out the one we liked, brought her home, and [...]
Posted in Financial statements, Sports on Apr 14th, 2008
So I’ve written before about my idea to churn out some kind of robust analogy between baseball statistics and financial statements. The reason is twofold: the analysis that baseball fans like myself do every day with baseball numbers is pretty involved—this isn’t simply looking at batting average and homeruns. It’s pretty sophisticated stuff and the [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books on Apr 12th, 2008
Well, I don’t know what I expected when I had my “readers” pick my next book, but in my dreams I hoped hundreds of people would be compelled by this incredibly original idea (which it really isn’t) and the chance to help out a reader who has been struggling to find a great book to [...]
Posted in Happiness, Outside the box on Apr 11th, 2008
I love lists, especially when it comes to books. So I peruse as many lists as I can—which includes all the awards that are out there. I’m always in search of the perfect book (which is why I had readers pick my next book) and when the Pulitzer Prizes were announced this year I felt [...]
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