Archive for April, 2007
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Finding Value Where Others Don’t
I woke up yesterday to some of the best news that I’ve gotten in some time. My favorite football team, the New England Patriots acquired wide receiver Randy Moss for the #110th pick in this year’s draft. I hope I didn’t lose my readers who are not sports fans, please give me [...]
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Weekend Personal Finance Review
Here are some articles that I liked from around the personal finance blogosphere.
Binary Dollar gives some basics of Home Equity Line of Credits (HELOCs) and Taxes. I have a HELOC and I didn’t know half of these things.
Ben at Money Smart Life is starting a point-counterpoint series on personal finance. Bonus points [...] -
Weekly Financial Review #16
There was a lot going on this week this week, so let’s get to it:
Last week, I mentioned Energi Gal and I were going to have a Financial Day. The idea was that we were going to pour through our financials. Well we got through a portion of the financial planning. [...]
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Can You Save Too Much In An Emergency Fund?
Ben at Money Smart Life has brought together a few different bloggers to answer the question “Can You Save Too Much In An Emergency Fund?” I was one of the bloggers responding. For me, an emergency fund of $1 is too much lost in opportunity costs.
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How Much is Customer Service Costing You? (Part 2)
(If you haven’t already, reading part one first will be helpful. A quick summary is that I’ve run into a couple of customer support problems this week.)
The other problem that I’ve had is with my cell phone, the Palm Treo 700P. I’ve had Palm Treo’s from when the Sprint Treo 300 came out. [...] -
How Much is Customer Service Costing You? (Part 1)
I’m putting the Guest Post Wednesday on hiatus for a little while. It’s kind of like the McRib sandwich. It’s good when it’s around, but you can’t have it all the time. Instead, I’ll ask how much time does customer service service eat up and what’s it costing you? In two parts today, I’ll [...]
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The Income Divide – Two Sides…
Parade Magazine has a very interesting recap on the last year’s economy and how it applies to the public. How Did You Do? gives a view into the state of the nation. There are quite a few statistics that I found surprisin, such as:
“Last year’s 1.1% average raise was their first real [...]
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I’ve Been Tagged, Here are 5 Things I’m Obsessed With
Tricia from Blogging Away Debt has tagged me to talk about 5 things I’m obsessed with. So here they are roughly in order.
If you read the last time I was tagged, I’m a die-hard New England Patriots fan. Energi Gal can’t be around as I’ll yell at the television at times.
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Weekend Personal Finance Review
I’m getting ready to watch the Red Sox attempt to sweep the Yankees tonight. I’m so excited about watching Daisuke Matsuzaka pitch that I headed out to get some Kirin Ichiban to watch the game with. At the local Japanese-themed store, it’s $6.50 for a 12-pack – a pretty good price for [...]
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Weekly Financial Review #15
Updates in this my week in personal finance:
I finally made the call to get my 401K rolled over into an IRA. Why would I do this? I can control the expenses better in an IRA. The bad news is that I had to change my address from my move 6 months [...]
