Archive for July, 2006
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Future is So Bright…
… that I gotta wear shades. I’ve been busting with happiness the last couple of days. One of the Internet social networking companies has offered to fly me in for an in-person interview. The company seems to be really going places. They are small enough that I can make a difference there, and big enough [...]
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Very, Very Best Money Saving Tips
Over at No Credit Needed (updated link), the blogger has come up with a great idea of summarizing some of the best money saving tips from all around. There’s nothing like combining the knowledge of many people and taking the best 5% of that. I read through them and was just shocked that the best [...]
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Net Worth Update
For the fourth month that I’ve been keeping track, I’ve made no headway in my overall net worth. In the first month the stock market took 5% off of my retirement accounts and I have yet to recover. I continue to invest maybe a little more than I should. I take solace in that I’m [...]
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Continuing to Prosper…
I’m completely addicted to lending money on Prosper.com. I’m at the point where I have to transfer $100 every 10 days to get my fix in of searching for a great borrower where I can get a great rate. In the past six weeks I’ve transferred about $600. I have transferred $900 overall and it’s [...]
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It’s Like One Billion Degrees…
This heatwave in Boston is really going to cost me in the air conditioning bills. I had done very well with the energy bill the last few months, so I guess it’s easy come easy go. Of course with the summer heat, Dunkin’ Donuts (a northeast coffee chain) is airing commercials every five minutes during [...]
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Maxing out my 401K in a whole new way…
Around May of last year, the small company I work for finally started offering a 401k plan. That left me about half a year to save the 14K limit. To get there I ended up putting 75% of about 6 weeks of paycheck. Of course those 6 weeks were just around the holidays when money [...]
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Food Costs Compared
As I’m new to the personal financial blogging world, I figured it would benefit me to read the “back issues” of other popular bloggers. It may help my writing, but more importantly I might learn some new ways to save or make money. It seems one of the top and most mentioned is Madame X [...]
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Are you wealthy and/or a good saver?
All Things Financial breaks down a rule of thumb in the popular book, The Millionaire Next Door. I haven’t read the book, and I know I should, but the rule of thumb just doesn’t seem to work for me. I’m a huge fan of statistics and formulas (one of the reasons I like Baseball Mogul), [...]
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Late Prosper Borrower Makes Good
I knew it wasn’t going to be easy, being a lender, but when a borrower was late, I panicked a bit. If 1/10th of my loans don’t come through, I’m going to have a problem. Happily the payment came through after being more than 15 days late, something that I didn’t expect. Thus far I [...]
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Free Comic Books for Saving Money
After reading a comment at Boston Gal’s Open Wallet, I was reminded of the free comics at the Federal Reserve Bank covering a variety of financial topics. I happen to have a friend who works at the Fed Bank, so I have to see if he can grab a few of these.
