Archive for April, 2007
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Your Home: Asset or Liability
I was reading The Simple Dollar the other day. Actually I read it nearly every day. He was doing an overview of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, a popular personal finance book. The overview was pretty much as expected except for this one line that I hadn’t thought much about before now: “…rather than seeing an [...]
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Prosper Winners and Losers
Personal Finance blogger left a comment during Prosper week. He suggested that: The GIGANTIC WINNER is…Prosper No risk All reward The RUNNER UP is…the Borrower Pool of available lenders where more traditional methods have failed Will always get a better deal than they could have gotten otherwise No pre-payment penalty Variable underwriting process (many loans [...]
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Weekend Personal Finance Review
It’s time for another review of articles that I liked this past week. Unfortunately, I’m about two weeks behind in my feed reader, so I’m going to have to go off of memory of sites that I visit often enough. My first favorite article is a compilation of the best frugal financial advice. It’s an [...]
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Weekly Financial Review #13
Here are some quick hit financial thoughts for this week: I got an uplifting comment towards my cutting the cable TV article from a person known as Ro. His comment is worth publishing in full, “This week, we bought a Radio Shack antenna, booster, cords and guide wire to switch to antenna. Antenna.web maps your [...]
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David Bach and my two major pet peeves
I came across David Bach’s Five Ways to Save $2,500 in 20 Minutes the other day. The article hits my two major pet peeves: #X tips that will save you $Y and The 10% Compounding Myth. The first pet peeve deals with all the articles that detail so many ways to save money. I always [...]
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What’s in My Wallet: The Mint Interview
The people at Mint, a company creating a web site to help track personal finances interviewed me last week. Usually, I’m pretty open with financial stuff, but here I’m particularly candid. My favorite feature is the “What’s in your wallet?” So go read the interview and see my 5 credit cards. If you look closely [...]
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Weekly Financial Review #12
(This was supposed to be published last Friday, but I must have hit the wrong button. Why? It will make more sense when you read the first bullet of the non-financial thoughts of the week.) Financial thoughts of the week: Loyal reader Shaun Noonan wrote me about his start-up company, Gimmie Gimmie, I Want. The [...]
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Guest Writer Wednesday: Cash flow is Lifeblood
Welcome to another article in the Guest Writer Wednesday series. If you would like to contribute, here is how you do it. Today’s post is from Prlinkbiz, a writer for No Limits Ladies. You can subscribe to their feed here. Cash flow is lifeblood: Can’t do much without either. Our boy Lazy Man (and his [...]
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Jean Chatzky Recommends Lazy Man and Money
The title of this post is a bold face lie – she is probably not even aware Lazy Man and Money exists. Perhaps she should start reading though. In her book, Make Money, Not Excuses, she recommends using a method remarkably similar to the one that Energi Gal and I use to manage our income [...]
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Alternative Income Streams Progress – April 2007
Another month, another update to my alternative income. Last month, I had the biggest jump forward, a tremendous gain as I went from $71.49 to $237.33. That’s the type of gain that’s not likely to be duplicated every month. This month was no exception, but there were still some solid gains. As the month closed, [...]
