Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Budgeting, Money and Relationships on Feb 21st, 2008
On Monday M and I celebrated our three-year anniversary—three years ago to the day we met at a bar and started to get to know each other. In May we’ll be getting married and we’ll start celebrating that anniversary so I wanted to do something special this year (as I try to do every year). [...]
Posted in Budgeting, Creativity, Money and Relationships on Feb 19th, 2008
Last week I posted on my schizophrenic experiences with V-Day and in the aftermath I realized I’ve learned some valuable things about that day and gift giving in general. So next time a special day comes around (anniversary, birthday, etc.), don’t forget these time-tested tips:
Money isn’t everything: You’ve heard it a million times before and [...]
Posted in Budgeting, Happiness, Money and Relationships on Feb 18th, 2008
M and I have gotten really good at planning our dinners for the week ahead of time and buying groceries on Sunday to have everything ready to make when we get home.
After work we get home, make dinner, clean up the dishes, and sit down to chill out/hang out. The problem is, some nights we [...]
Sun has a nice post discussing the importance of direct deposit. Direct deposit isn’t a must when it comes to keeping a budget and saving money, but it sure makes it a lot easier.
One of the first tenets you’ll hear repeated over and over in personal finance is “make it automatic.” That means setting up [...]
I ran across this article on Yahoo! Finance the other day and it got me thinking about how I “grade” on each of these qualities. So lets run down the ten of them and see how well (or badly) I fare:
Patience: I love reading articles about retirement, so this is a good indicator that I’m [...]
Posted in Budgeting, Uncategorized on Feb 8th, 2008
Here’s a good article from a while back that I really like. Here’s what the article is about:
This article is not about how to fake being an expert, so it’s not some quick, easy thing you can do and then be way better at something tomorrow. It’s about actually becoming an expert, which will take [...]
Last week M’s car had a pretty bad flat tire so she took it in to see if it was patchable or if she needed a new one. The guy at the shop told her that her tire was completely punctured and she would need to buy a new one. That sucks, but not such [...]
As I mentioned earlier this week, reading is one way that helps me brainstorm new ideas. It doesn’t have to be something new, it just has to be something interesting. So yesterday I was going through Ramit’s blog, Iwillteachyoutoberich, poking around some of his old posts looking for something interesting. For those that have never [...]
So the FED cut its rates again because it’s trying to stimulate the economy and avoid a recession. Usually, that means stocks go up and the savings rate you get from high-interest banks like ING Direct go down (again).
For an interesting read on the FED and how our economy rewards risk taking without holding these [...]
It’s a question we all ask ourselves when we find a new job or when we just fantasize about the new job we’d like to have: If I was making X, then I could afford to do X.
After getting my new job, I spent a lot of time trying to calculate my new paycheck (I [...]
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