Archive for March, 2009
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Giving a Lasting Gift to a Baby (But Not the Parents)?
Today, instead of the usual Friday guest post, I’ll be passing forward a question I received yesterday from a frequent commenter. Why no guest post – because I’ve been a grade A gluteus maximus orifice to a lot of personal finance bloggers by not responding (like Pennywise Family – not intentionally, but just [...]
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Of Footage and Foosball
My new job has a foosball table. That’s probably a little unusual for those of you who work outside of Internet startups. Here in Silicon Valley, it’s more common than you might think.
I was watching a couple of people play in the office. One remarked, “I really should get a foosball [...] -
Save Money on Television
In the past I’ve given a few tips on saving money on television. One of my more popular articles in the past suggested that it may be possible for people to cut their cable television completely. To recap here where those tips in nut-shell:
Pay More for Television – Sounds counter intuitive, but [...]
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Getting Spring Fever and Some Personal Finance Links
With the moving of the clocks ahead it finally feels like Spring. I almost forgot that temperature-wise it’s almost always Spring in Silicon Valley. Even when it gets dark at 5PM, it can feel like Spring. I’d love to go out and enjoy, or even stay in and do some grilling, [...]
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Will Creativity and Innovation Be Stifled by the Bailout?
SimplyForties is a 47-year old single mother of a college-aged son who is navigating her way through midlife and documenting it at SimplyForties, where she writes about personal finance, relationships, grown children, the environment and social responsibility. She lives in a small rural town in far west Texas where she tries to live [...]
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Fight Poverty by Supporting Microcredit (by 5PM CST Today)
Today, I’ve go a special message from Tom at Prosper Lending Review. He’s trying to raise awareness for a great cause and needs your vote by 5PM CST today. If you can help vote and spread the word, I’d greatly appreciate it.
Inspired by extreme poverty in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus pioneered the concept [...] -
Lending Club’s Interesting Definition of Risk
I was using Lending Club to buy some notes the other day and noticed something very interesting. Take a look at the following images…
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Did you see what I saw? Look at images A and B. You see that I can choose between a 9.74% interest rate at a 0.47/1 risk ratio [...] -
Alternative Income Streams – March 2009
Another month is over and it’s time to go back and look at how I did with my alternative income in February. The quick answer is that I made $2767.41 after taxes. That’s a nice gain from previous months. Like each month, some income disappeared and some new reappeared. I’m [...]
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Save Money on a Wedding Dress
have been racking my brain trying to figure out what I was going to write for today’s Save Money Monday. I asked my wife for advice and she suggested that I write about how to save money on a wedding dress. Despite the photo here, it’s not all that common for [...]
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Print Media, Favorite Shirt, Death to Jack (and some personal finance links)
I have a few thoughts on my mind this week:
I’m not a fan of print media – A well-known print magazine contacted me to ask if they could do a story on me. Awesome! However, they’d need my real name (no Mark Twain or Richard Bachman’s) and a photo. You search [...]
