Archive for the ‘Weekly Review’ Category
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This Week in Lazy Man’s Money
It’s been awhile since I wrote an update about my week with money. Previous weeks have been relatively uneventful, but this week has been full of events. As I mentioned in my alternative income stream update, my wife’s car was broken into. The damage and the items stolen added up to $500 – our deductible, [...]
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Busy Week, Business Thoughts, and Media Exposure
Here are some things going on with me personally this week. I may be the most busy person in the world this week. What makes me so busy: I’m trying to square away things on my rental property. I’ve got a new tenant coming in for July. It turns out there was disconnect on part [...]
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Microsoft Surface, Lindsay Lohan, and Broken Laptops
Here are my financial and non-financial thoughts of the week: Have you seen the coffee table by Microsoft? It’s called the Microsoft Surface (Flash heavy official site, text heavy news story) and it knocked my socks off in a demo the other day on CNBC. It’s a touch-sensitive flat-screen TV that’s also a table. It [...]
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Weekly Financial Review
It has been a few weeks since I have given an update on my week in finances. I’m overdue for an update. A high school student came knocking on my door on Wednesday. He was trying to sell newspaper subscriptions in an effort to get a $500 college scholarship. He was shocked when I said [...]
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Weekly Financial Review #17
Here are some of the things that went on financially in my life this week: I was included in the Carnival of Shopping. Check it out if you get a chance. I paid off $2000 of my home equity line of credit leaving me with under $9000 to go. I’m ramping up my writings at [...]
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Weekly Financial Review #16
There was a lot going on this week this week, so let’s get to it: Last week, I mentioned Energi Gal and I were going to have a Financial Day. The idea was that we were going to pour through our financials. Well we got through a portion of the financial planning. I was hoping [...]
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Weekly Financial Review #15
Updates in this my week in personal finance: I finally made the call to get my 401K rolled over into an IRA. Why would I do this? I can control the expenses better in an IRA. The bad news is that I had to change my address from my move 6 months ago. Unfortunately changing [...]
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Weekly Financial Review #14
My Financial Week that Was… With the exception of Wednesday, I stayed late at work each night this week. Since my work provides dinner if you stay late, I was able to eat well for free (as long as you stay under the daily allowance). One night, I brought home my dinner and Energi Gal [...]
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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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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 [...]
