Comments on: Spring Cleaning of My Financial Mind http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/spring-cleaning-of-my-financial-mind/ Saving, Earning, and Investing Money Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:52:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: jim http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/spring-cleaning-of-my-financial-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-133142 jim Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:02:24 +0000 http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/?p=1866#comment-133142 We flew Hawaii Airlines inter-island when we were in Hawaii and they were pretty nice, never tried the Hawaii to Australia haul but if we ever go I'll have to pick your brain about that. B&J snack eh? Nice. We flew Hawaii Airlines inter-island when we were in Hawaii and they were pretty nice, never tried the Hawaii to Australia haul but if we ever go I’ll have to pick your brain about that. B&J snack eh? Nice.

]]> By: chris http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/spring-cleaning-of-my-financial-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-133105 chris Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:14:26 +0000 http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/?p=1866#comment-133105 CA sales tax is 9.25% where I live. Just wait until our utilities are taxed even more....our gas bill here in SO CAL is higher than my mom's in Iowa! Yep, those who voted for change should be smiling...because we are certainly getting change from all sides now. CA sales tax is 9.25% where I live. Just wait until our utilities are taxed even more….our gas bill here in SO CAL is higher than my mom’s in Iowa! Yep, those who voted for change should be smiling…because we are certainly getting change from all sides now.

]]> By: Miss M http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/spring-cleaning-of-my-financial-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-132963 Miss M Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:37:26 +0000 http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/?p=1866#comment-132963 The sales tax is higher here in LA, it's just shy of 10% now. There was the 1% increase courtesy of the governator and then the voters passed a .5% increase in November to pay for road and transit improvements. I made sure to complete any expensive planned purchases prior to the April increase. The sales tax is higher here in LA, it’s just shy of 10% now. There was the 1% increase courtesy of the governator and then the voters passed a .5% increase in November to pay for road and transit improvements. I made sure to complete any expensive planned purchases prior to the April increase.

]]> By: Kosmo @ The Casual Observer http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/spring-cleaning-of-my-financial-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-132929 Kosmo @ The Casual Observer Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:49:45 +0000 http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/?p=1866#comment-132929 Our older car is a '98 Ford Contour with 101,000 miles. We had to replace the catalytic converter several months ago ($600ish) but it has been really good about not being too bad with maintenance costs. Definitely much further ahead than buying a new car. Our newer car is an '06 Ford Taurus that we bought in April of '06 (late in the 06 model year, as planned) to replace a 99 Taurus with 130k+ mile. It was a program car with 9500 miles on it. We saved a lot of money by getting a program car instead of a new one, and nobody could tell the difference. Iowa is considering eliminating the deduction for federal income tax on the state tax return. I'm in the 25% federal bracket and 9% Iowa bracket, so if this passes, I'd be paying an extra 2.25% in taxes. Also, the county where I work passed a 1% local option sales tax for flood recovery, and the county where I live has a similar initiative for the voters in May. Yep, taxation with representation is sooooo much better than taxation without representation :) The Rocky Mountain News closed a little while ago (just short of its 150th anniversary) - although the writers are trying to exhume the corpse and breathe life back into it. I wrote about it in my blog ( http://www.observingcasually.com/is-the-print-media-dead/ ) It's getting difficult for newspapers to survive. Our older car is a ‘98 Ford Contour with 101,000 miles. We had to replace the catalytic converter several months ago ($600ish) but it has been really good about not being too bad with maintenance costs. Definitely much further ahead than buying a new car.

Our newer car is an ‘06 Ford Taurus that we bought in April of ‘06 (late in the 06 model year, as planned) to replace a 99 Taurus with 130k+ mile. It was a program car with 9500 miles on it. We saved a lot of money by getting a program car instead of a new one, and nobody could tell the difference.

Iowa is considering eliminating the deduction for federal income tax on the state tax return. I’m in the 25% federal bracket and 9% Iowa bracket, so if this passes, I’d be paying an extra 2.25% in taxes. Also, the county where I work passed a 1% local option sales tax for flood recovery, and the county where I live has a similar initiative for the voters in May. Yep, taxation with representation is sooooo much better than taxation without representation :)

The Rocky Mountain News closed a little while ago (just short of its 150th anniversary) – although the writers are trying to exhume the corpse and breathe life back into it. I wrote about it in my blog ( http://www.observingcasually.com/is-the-print-media-dead/ ) It’s getting difficult for newspapers to survive.

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