Archive for April, 2009
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Save Money on Moving
My wife and I are moving next month. As my friend says, moving is worse than getting a root canal. While I have moved in the past, I haven’t gotten a root canal. The last time we moved, we had the aid of the military movers. They were fantastic – packed everything and unpacked everything. [...]
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Personal Finance Links (Media Edition)
I have quite a few thoughts to catch up on… Here goes: Thanks Washington Post – The Washington Post wrote about me a little over a week ago. Debuting in section A can’t be a bad thing, right? In case you are curious, the Washington Post was referring to my article on how to Save [...]
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Topsy-Turvy Tuesday
I teased you a couple of days ago about my Tuesday. I’ve been trying to get it out of my mind for a couple of days. It was just a roller coaster day where things started off bad, got a little better, then got bad again. Looking back on it, the roller coaster started on [...]
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My Tenant: “I’ve Lost My Job and I Can’t Pay You…”
Yesterday was a day for the record books for me. You’d think that getting news that your tenant can’t pay you would be the most eventful thing of the day. Long term it was probably the worst news I had, but there was some definite competition. I’ll leave the details of the rest as a [...]
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Save Money at Baseball Games
Spring is here and the baseball season is underway. Today and the next two days, I’ll be watching the Red Sox visit the Oakland A’s at the Oakland Colosseum. The tickets were around $60 a piece, but at least they are amongst the best in the house. Going to a major league baseball game is [...]
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Personal Finance Links (Harvey Milk Edition)
As I write this, I’m watching Milk. So far it’s extremely good. It got my wife and me thinking about how we were never taught about Harvey Milk in school. It seems like we were taught about every other activist for equal rights except for him. Maybe Boston in the 1980′s wasn’t that progressive. As [...]
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Spring Cleaning of My Financial Mind
I’ve had a lot of small quick thoughts on my head lately. Time to clear them out… How Much Does it Cost to Drive a Car – Watching the Today this morning… Christie Hyde from AAA says it costs 42 to 68 cents a mile to drive your car. Going from a small to medium [...]
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Save Money on a Diamond Ring
It seems a distant memory now. However, when I asked my wife to marry me three and a half years ago, my biggest concern wasn’t her response, but actually paying for the ring. Seems pretty silly in retrospect, huh? Maybe I was just confident in the answer (more explanation on that at the end of [...]
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The Weekend of Nothing (and Personal Finance Links)
With the wife out town for what seems to be the 745th straight day, Jake (my new puppy) and I had a weekend of sitting around in a pool of our own slobber. I did nothing and it was everything that I hoped and dreamed it would be. Office Space is right, you don’t need [...]
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Alternative Income Streams – April 2009
With March in the books, it’s time to look back at my alternative income. After taxes last month I made $1967. In previous month’s I’ve been disappointed by a number like that. It just didn’t have the growth that I want. However, since I was working full time, the number gets painted in a whole [...]
