Archive for February, 2007
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My Financial Week in Review #6
So this is Friday… and what have I done… another week over… and a new just begun…
Like previous weeks, I’ve been investing Prosper. I typical put $600 in a month spread throughout in $100 increments. I’m still making great returns (in fact it seems that people who I thought were deadbeats are [...]
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Net Worth Update – February 2007
I’ve had my most interesting month to date. I should be noticing a $3500 gain this month due to a surging stock market. Instead, I’m looking at a $18,000 loss as Zillow says the value of my had dropped $17,000 in the last 30 days (though it looks like $19,000 from my [...]
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Introducing Lazy Man and Health
I’d like to take a little time to announce my new site, Lazy Man and Health. It’s pretty freshly minted, so please excuse me if it’s rough around the edges.
Here are a couple of links to get you started:Welcome – This will let you know what Lazy Man and Health is about.
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What’s a Carnival without Popcorn?
We were pleased to be included in the latest Festival of Frugality. The article showed a number of steps for how to eliminate cable TV. It’s a little bit of an extreme solution, requiring a little sacrifice. What I liked about Stop The Ride’s Experiment on Popcorn, is that it doesn’t [...]
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5 Reasons to Throw Away Your 401K
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about 401K’s lately. Almost every financial professional screams from the top of his/her lungs that it’s a great deal. If your company offers matching funds it’s probably a great idea to take advantage of that. If you are like me and your company doesn’t [...]
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Prosper Changes: What They Mean to Me and You
I got an e-mail yesterday from Prosper’s CEO Chris Larsen. I wasn’t alone, I’m sure that at least every lender got one. As Prosper gears up for it’s first birthday, they’ve found the need to make a few changes. Here I will outline them and what they mean.
New Customer Service
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The $25,000 Meal
After reading about Get Rich Slowly’s post about how sometimes it’s okay to splurge, I came across this $25,000 meal.
“Wine lovers regularly organize exorbitantly expensive tastings in New York, London and Japan but such events are not as common in Thailand, where it would take the average schoolteacher five years to earn $25,000.
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My Financial Week in Review #5
Quick hits on my financial week:
I finally invested my 2006 Roth IRA. I decided that I would go with a foreign markets ETF (ticker symbol EFA). While I was in the account, I realized that I had some old holdings like Palm, Checkpoint software, and AMD. I had them long [...]
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The Simple Dollars’ 31 Days of Finance Fixes – Day 7-12
Yesterday I learned exactly how much an hour worth of work is to me. This is very important. When Energi Gal says that I’m not doing my share of the cleaning and suggests that we get a cleaning lady, I can figure out if this is really worthwhile to me. Today [...]
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A New Carnival is in Town
Making Our Way has hosted the first edition of Carnival of Wealth Accumulation which is targeted at those in the 30s and 40s. Of course, Lazy Man and Money contributed. Check it out, and while you are there, I’d read When not to buy a house. It’s a nicely written [...]
