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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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Dog Costs for the First Month
A little while back, I had asked the question of how much does a dog cost. At the time, I was speculating based on the research I had done. Today I’m a little more prepared to answered that question from a position of experience. We’ve had our puppy, for around 11 days now and I [...]
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Blogging Goals: What You’ll See Here in 2009
Thanks to Green Panda Treehouse for pointing me to Visionary Blogging’s 7 Strategic Blog Improvement Questions. That article serves as an outline for my blogging goals for 2009. What will I accomplish with my blog in 2009? How will I make my blog more valuable in 2009? There are a number of ways to determine [...]
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Five Thoughts To My Future Children…
I got the latest edition of Money Magazine yesterday, and Pat Regnier in his The Bottom Line column used the letter to his children as a literary device. It’s not unique (I’ve even written a letter to my high school self in the past), but nonetheless, I thought the idea was worth stealing flattering Mr. [...]
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Getting Ready to Buy Some Stock
Wednesday my wife said, “You know we have a lot of cash sitting around, we should start to invest it while everything is cheap.” It’s amazing how I can write about this stuff everyday, while she spends about 4 minutes a year on it, and we both come to the same conclusion. Then Thursday happens [...]
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My Six Word Memoir
For those of you who don’t follow such things, there’s a thing in the world of blogging (often called a blogosphere) called a meme. Basically someone takes a topic, writes about it, and then “tags” others to write about it. I suppose if you don’t write about it, you get stuck being “it.” As we [...]
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Weekend Personal Finance Review – High Cholesterol Edition
My wife got a cholesterol test yesterday. We’ve known that she’s had high cholesterol in the past, but this was off the charts bad. As some people know, the ratio of good to bad cholesterol is also important. Unfortunately this number isn’t on her side either. I’ve spent the morning researching what can be done [...]
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Celebrities and Money: Sarah Michelle Gellar
Today I thought I’d unveil a new series focused on celebrities and their money. It’s not going to be a regular series – I’ll only post when I find relevant articles. If you have a link to a celebrity and money, feel free to contact me. The first feature comes from an unlikely source (at [...]
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Erin Burnett: Why I Would Not Impress CNBC’s Anchor
For a variety of non-financial reasons, I like to read Men’s Health from cover to cover each month. I know it’s not as entertaining as Maxim Magazine for a lot of people, but I still like it. Though it has a ton of advertising and is one of the few magazines where it’s impossible to [...]
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A Lazy Portfolio
Investing can seem very complex if you are new to it. There are so many options out there. How is one to choose between stocks, mutual funds, CDs, corporate bonds, treasury bonds, savings accounts, and even more exotic options like lending on Prosper. With all this complexity it may be worth simplifying things dramatically. Here’s [...]
