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Posted in Budgeting on May 9th, 2008
I’m pretty good at staying under budget and under control. It’s actually kind of fun to see how much lower than my budget I can come in at when the month is over. But lately I’ve been really bad. It’s not because I’ve lost my frugality or because I’ve gone on a spending binge—it’s because […]
Posted in Budgeting, Money and Relationships on May 8th, 2008
I’ve mentioned before that M and I are getting married pretty soon (two and a half weeks!) and one of the things that we’ll be doing that is relevant to this site and to personal finance is joining our bank accounts. We’ve already created a joint ING account that simply shows up via both of […]
I just read this piece on ESPN and I couldn’t believe it. Here was a couple that didn’t know how they would pay for their next mortgage payment and still they would not sell their season tickets to the Dodger games.
Huh?
I was shocked when I got to the end of it because it felt like […]
So I went to the ATM the other day to deposit a check and as the machine is supposed to spit out my receipt, a small piece of paper is slowly squeezed out. I’m confused until I pull it out—it’s the person who was here before me’s receipt. The machine maybe malfunctioned or something so […]
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: […]
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 […]
A recent post of mine of how scuba diving can teach us how to handle our finances has been included in the latest Money Hacks Carnival over at Mommy Gets Paid. Check out all the other great posts from the carnival here.
And if you want to join or learn more about The Money Hacks, check […]
Every frugal person I know has a certain pride about it: you don’t need to spend money the way other people do. For whatever reason, it’s something to feel proud of—like we’ve managed to sidestep some of the financial pitfalls that are out there. We’re better than that.
But a few things have happened recently that […]
If you’ve read anything about finances on this blog, you know I am a huge fan of ING—I use their high-yield savings account to put any and all extra money I have. But with the Fed cutting the rates over and over, the interest we get in accounts like this one has fallen. From a […]
I just got back from the beautiful island of Aruba (that’s a picture from our room) and I learned a few things about myself and about money on the trip. Aruba is a tourist destination and earns more than half its GDP thanks to it. It’s because of this that things are so expensive if […]
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