Archive for July, 2008
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Wesabe Review: Can Wesabe Save You Money?
Wesabe tracks your spending… let’s you know where your money went. If you are regular reader of personal finance sites, you’ve probably heard of Wesabe. It’s one of many personal finance start-ups that track your spending in order to help you maximize your dollar. I first heard of Wesabe over a year ago. I signed [...]
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Extreme Foreclosure!
Extreme Makeover Home Foreclosure. What went wrong? There was a little foreclosure in the news that caught my eye yesterday. A home featured on Extreme Makeover Home Edition is facing foreclosure. Milton and Patricia Harper of Lake City, Georgia were the lucky recipients of a complete home makeover turning their old home into a 5500 [...]
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Bundled Football Tickets, Video Game Systems, Music, and DVDs… Arrrg!
Note To Businesses: Consumers Don’t like Forced Bundling of Products With football season coming up, my thoughts have started to slowly turn to blocking, blind-side blitzes, and blackouts. Recently tickets for next seasons AFC Championship rematch, New England Patriots vs. San Deigo Chargers went on sale. Though it’s a mere 8-hour drive, I was prepared [...]
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I Share My Asset Allocation (as do 7 other Money Writers)
The Money Writers is having a group writing project. Each of us have decided to share our asset allocation and performance from the first of the year to last Friday. You might want to put the children to sleep, this could get ugly. Asset Allocation I would like to say that I put together a [...]
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Weekend Links – Lonely Mickey Mouse Edition
My wife and I went to Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago and spent a little time in Disneyland. One of the most interesting things I saw was a High School Musical 2 stage that was on wheels. It would come rolling through the park 2-3 times a day and put on a 30-45 [...]
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A Look at 2008 Goal Progress
One of the best ways to accomplish something is to break it down into small, manageable parts. Complete these small parts and soon you’ll have your goal accomplished. For 2008, I thought I’d back on what my goals were and how I’ve done at accomplishing them. Please put on your seat belt, this could get [...]
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Reader Email: Help Me, I’ve Been Evicted!
Every now and again, I get e-mails from readers asking for advice. I always stress that I’m licensed to give individual financial advice. However, I often opine with what steps I would take if I found myself in a similar situation. This week’s e-mail comes from Candi (as always names have been changed for anonymity [...]
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A Brief Net Worth Update
For the past couple of years, I’ve been keeping track of my net worth and posting about gains and losses. I’ve started to realize that it’s typically a very boring post. I don’t know if readers really get too much value in reading that I’ve lost $800 due to stock market fluctuations. As such, I [...]
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Weekend Links – I Want a Volkswagen Bus edition
Today, my wife and I drove 7 hours from nearly San Deigo back to our home in San Francisco. It got me thinking about the road trip in little Miss Sunshine where they take a Volkswagen Bus. If it weren’t for the gas prices it would be fun to own a Volkswagen Bus. I’m not [...]
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Get Rich, Stay Rich, Pass It On: A Mini Review
Catherine S. McBreen and George H. Walper Jr.’s book may be misleading Every now and again, publishers sense me books to read. More often than not it takes me a long time to read them. I was sent Get Rich, Stay Rich, Pass It On: The Wealth-Accumulation Secrets of America’s Richest Families in May of [...]
