Archive for October, 2006
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Festival of Frugality #46
Welcome everyone to Festival of Frugality #46. There’s a lot to read and a lot to learn, so I’m keeping the introduction short.
Straight from my new home in Silicon Valley, a fellow engineer at The Digerati Life teaches us how to Cash in on Clutter. Hopefully, he’s put up a used [...] -
Alternative income streams progress – End of October
I know it hasn’t been that long since I previously posted my alternative income streams plan and progress. However, I’m doing fairly well keeping expenses down and as long as I’m making progress, I might as well do it once every two weeks. If it seems like I’m making unrealistic progress, it’s because [...]
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Where’s The IRA Offering, Zecco?
Zecco.com has been getting a lot of press lately for offering free stock trades. I have a small, but growing IRA and would like to diversify amongst more ETFs. In the past, commissions for each trade have prevented me having the allocation I would prefer. Zecco would be the perfect answer to [...]
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Boston Sports Club Keeps Charging Me
Before I moved out to California, I went through considerable effort to cancel my gym membership. It took many calls to finally get ahold of someone who could deal with accounts. After that, I had to give proof of the move, which of course, I didn’t really a lot of since… I hadn’t [...]
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Great Portfolio Tool – Morningstar’s Instant X-Ray
As I was planning my 401k, I happened across Morningstar’s Instant X-Ray. You enter the ticker symbols (mutual funds, ETFs, and stocks are all good here) and it will tell you how your portfolio is weighted. It took me about an hour to get my portfolio weighed right, but it was really [...]
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Random Thoughts on Various Articles
I thought I’d try something new and comment on a few articles in one post. The common thread in all this is that I feel a lot of people can learn from them.
JLP asks Who Pays $300 for a purse. From a financial decision, I can’t really see it making a lot of [...] -
My Cheap and Healthy Breakfast
Simple Dollar brings up a great point on how he saves money by eating breakfast. I do the same. It’s a very healthy habit to get into and can be one of the cheaper meals of the day.
My breakfast may not be the cheapest. There have been points in my life where [...] -
Getting a Raise – the 401k way
It was less than a month ago when I learned Smart Money to figure out that I’d be losing $6,613. The new job had enough perks for me to take this loss.
However, it’s a whole new ballgame today. The company is getting a 401k plan soon and it feels like I’m getting a [...] -
Clowns and Fried Dough, let’s all go to the Carnival
I’d like to thank Fat Pitch Financials for hosting and including me in the Carnival of Personal Finance. Ditto for Endless Gibberish and the Carnival of Investing I apologize if you came here looking for clowns or fried dough. Until recently, I would have expected to see them at a carnival myself.
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Prosper Now Instantly Transferring Funds?
I just transferred money two minutes ago from my bank and the money was instantly added to my cash balance! I’m not really sure if I believe it. I wasn’t expecting the money to be there for another until next Monday – six days away. It says that the estimated completion of [...]
