Archive for February, 2009
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Sacrificing the Little Things for Early Retirement?
This is a guest post by Andy over at Retire at 40. His plan is to get out of the rat race by the time he turns 40, which is now less than seven years away. He does use the British spellings and terminology. I thought it added to the character of the post and [...]
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Three Investing Lessons Learned the Hard Way
My wife got her Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) update the other day. (For my civilian readers, this is the military version of the 401k or 403b retirement savings plans). Not good times. I hadn’t noticed what she was looking at, so I just suspected it was some junk mail. I think this is the first [...]
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Does Diversification Still Matter?
Taking a casual look at my investment performance over the last few months isn’t pretty. What’s that you say? Yours isn’t either? It seems like no one’s is. I was thinking about this the other day. Did I do everything right? I diversified. I have money in US stocks both big and small. I have [...]
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Hire Lazy Man to Manage Your Blog… (sort of)
When I had started blogging in 2006, I never expected to be any good at it. In the 10th grade, I had one teacher (hi Mrs. Paige), who criticized my writing so badly I was moved from the honors level to a place where a couple of sentences qualified as a full term paper. I’m [...]
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Save Money on Hotels
Next month, my wife is traveling for a pharmacy conference. Since I can work from anywhere with an Internet connection, I thought I’d follow her and take advantage of the free hotel room the government is giving her (as part of an agreement for her participating on some policy boards). Unfortunately, as the economy would [...]
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Busy Week at Lazy Man HQ (and some Personal Finance Links)
It’s been a busy last few four days for me. I haven’t been able to be nearly as Lazy as I’d like. On Wednesday night, I went to a crab feed with my friend, best known on the online world as author of RateLadder. It was the first time I’ve eaten crab (I’m not big [...]
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Helping Parents Cope with Damage to their Retirement Nest Egg
The following is a guest post from Mr. GoTo, a baby boomer who blogs at Go To Retirement. On a personal note, I’ll be taking advantage of the “email this” button below and send it to my own mother. I hope you will join me and do the same. And don’t forget to subscribe to [...]
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Stop Foreclosure (or Delay It a Bit)
I normally don’t post “one-liners” like this, but Yahoo has an article on how some consumers are using the law to their advantage to slow down their mortgage foreclosure. If you might find yourself in that situation it’s worth the three minute read.
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How to Lose a Potential Customer in One Email
Last week, I featured a guest post of How to Lose a Loyal Customer in Three Easy Calls. This week, I’d like to post one quick way to lose a customer in a single e-mail. Over the last month, my wife and I have been looking for places to rent on Craigslist (which lead me [...]
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Our Buy vs. Rent Situation
In 2006, I wrote about how my fiancee (my wife now) got a great job promotion in San Francisco. Somewhat reluctantly, I agreed to live more than 10 miles away from my birthplace for the first time in my life. I was 30 years old. I considered it a short-term move. After two years, we’d [...]
