Saturday Personal Finance Round-up (Get Your Forever Stamps Today) |
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I think the post office scheduled the increase in stamps around Mother's Day so everyone would focus on that. If you send out a 100 letters a year, buying those forever stamps will save you a couple of dollars. It's not a big deal, but if you find yourself at the store anyway, it's a little something in your pocket.
Here are some articles from around the blogosphere that I liked this week.
Top Posts from PF:
- My Wealth Builder blogs on surviving early retirement during the financial crisis. I had been wondering how he's been doing in the nightmare economy since he retired early.
- Debt Free 4Ever talks about why you should pay your mortgage off early.
- Dough Roller shares in Dave Ramsey Unleashed: how to apply Ramsey’s ‘baby steps’ to grown up finances.
- One Frugal Girl asks do you save with a specific goal in mind?
- Wealth Junkies says close a credit card — the right way!
- Wise Bread offers these 10 tips for landing an gig online.
- Bible Money Matters writes up 10 dumb ways of wasting money.
- Credit Card Watcher shares how a college student got Amex to reinstate his credit limit.
- Oh My Aching Debts looks into paying for long term care.
- Get Rich Slowly posts the miser’s peril: why you should save for tomorrow AND enjoy today.
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I’m long in forever stamps. Cashed in all my gold, and Mrs. Dough and I have filled the garage, basement and attic with stamps. We’re covered! Oh, and thanks for the link!
By them all out and sell them to people outside a post office for a quick 4% gain…
Except, for, you know, the fact that forever stamps only go up with inflation, so you’re not really saving money by hoarding them, or making a lick of an investment by doing so, or making money by reselling them.
Jake,
Do you believe that we are going to see 4.76% inflation from today (Saturday) to Monday when it goes up?
Over the long term you are right. If you could buy a million on Saturday and sell a million on Tuesday for one penny less than the post office, you’d pocket a cool $10,000 … not a bad couple of days worth…
I’m probably in a tiny minority here … but even with the problems we sometimes see with the USPS, first class postage has to be one of the biggest bargains out there. I can send something through the mail for the same cost of upsizing a value meal.
Sure, email is free, but some things are better through the mail (greeting cards, for example).
Thanks for the link. I appreciate it, there will be a follow up to the above linked article tomorrow morning.