Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Budgeting, Money and Relationships, saving on Jul 31st, 2008
Ever since I started reading personal-finance blogs and educating myself about the more advanced aspects of budgeting and saving, I immediately took to the idea of targeted saving. It goes something like this: instead of just saving whatever is left over at the end of the month and adding it to one big pile, you [...]
Posted in alternative income on Jul 30th, 2008
I’ve been posting my alternative income for every month lately and while it’s nice to chart how well I do from one month to the next, I started to wonder how much alternative income I’ve made total since I started to monetize my blog and keep track of this stuff. So I decided to count [...]
You’ve heard it everywhere (including here) — index funds are one of the best ways for people to invest in the stock market and get some slow, consistent growth over the long term. You also hear that you can’t beat the market. Index funds ARE the market, so there shouldn’t be any debate right? Some [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2008
This seems to happen every now and again and no matter what I tell myself to do before or after it hits, I just can’t get through it fast enough. I wake up in the morning and sit in front of the computer and I’m not the least bit interested in writing about anything. I [...]
Posted in Financial statements, Investing, Sports, Stocks on Jul 25th, 2008
I’ve talked about trying to create a series of good analogies between sports and investing before. The reason why I think it’s such a great idea is because it would open the doors to what is one of the most accessible ways for people to build long-term wealth — the stock market. But going through [...]
Posted in Outside the box on Jul 24th, 2008
A couple of weeks ago I went to see the very good Mongol and that’s why I’m currently reading Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. When I was a little kid I saw some kind of special or documentary on the Mongols and I was blown away by it/them. Ever since I’ve [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog on Jul 24th, 2008
Day 10 of Building a Better Blog is here. We’re almost halfway there and today’s tip is to Declutter Your Sidebar. Clutter can accumulate over time all over a blog, so paying attention to specific areas like the Sidebar is very helpful.
This is one of those basic blog tips that often goes overlooked because [...]
Posted in Happiness on Jul 23rd, 2008
When I was six years old, I wanted to play baseball. So I went to this academy with my mom and while she talked to the administrators, I stared out at all the kids playing baseball and I knew this was what I wanted to do. It was my mom that had first turned me [...]
Posted in Good Reads on Jul 22nd, 2008
Maybe you haven’t read it yet, but Freakonomics is a great book. The sequel, SuperFreakonomics, should be out in the near future — so you better hurry up and read the first one. Never has Economics been so interesting. Anyway, if you don’t want to go and buy (or check out) the book based only [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 21st, 2008
M and I are starting to look for our first place and up until today it’s only been us going online or walking around our neighborhood looking for open houses. But today it gets serious as we’re meeting with a real-estate person who is going to be helping us through the process. He’s experienced and [...]
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