Vehicle Cost per year - My Ford Escort
I recently sold my original pimp ride so I figured it would be good to break down the costs of the vehicle. Purchased 1990 Ford Escort Purchase Date: 10/2004 Mileage: 90,000 Cost $1000 Sales Tax $50 …
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Retirement NestEgg Report - March 2007
Well another positive month. A good chunk of the gain was due to deposits again, but all of my accounts except my Roth IRA had positive investment gains also. One thing to note is that I missed for …
Read MoreMy Financial Journey's pimp ride version 2
A couple months ago I talked about my pimp ride. Well I’m sure some people might call me a hypocrite, but I actually went ahead and replaced that car last weekend. Now before you go ahead and …
Read MoreForever Stamps & Stamp Price Increases
This post was written by Matthew Paulson from Getting Green. If you enjoy this post, consider reading some of his other articles. I’m a rather young individual, and the lowest price that I can …
Read MoreWhen lightning strikes
Just wanted to give you a heads up as to why I didn’t post the last two mornings. This has been a pretty exciting week for me and I’ve probably beaten the odds on a couple of things. First …
Read MoreWhat not to do with your tax return
I just got a call the other night from a friend of mine. We were talking and the conversation ended as he and his wife were going to go pick up their taxes from their tax accountant. One hour later I …
Read MoreCarnival Recaps & March Madness Update
This week I participated in two carnivals and still have one post in the Personal Finance March Madness contest. The Carnival of Personal Finance #92 was hosted at LazyManAndMoney this week. My …
Read MoreWelcome new visitors and Cayenne pepper lovers
My article on How to cure a sore throat has been finding it’s way onto the sites of Reddit, Del.icio.us, and others, which means I’ve got a bunch of new people visiting my site. For those …
Read MoreSaving money on books
Now this is going to be one of those, “no kidding you dufus why are you even posting this - it’s pretty obvious” kind of posts, but honestly I always forget about it and well it just …
Read MoreFrugal cure for a sore throat
I’ve been sick for most of the week and last couple days I have had a really bad sore throat. I had been sucking on cough drops and other common things to try to relieve my sore throat, but it …
Read MoreSad part is most people won't get the joke
Got a kick out of a recent dilbert. It’s hilarious because it’s so true, although I’ve got this nagging feeling that 90% of the Dilbert audience doesn’t truly get the joke. The …
Read MoreAsk the readers - How do you come up with that magical retirement number?
One thing I’ve taken a little slack for is right now my only public goal is that I want to have $100,000 in principal deposited by the time I reach age 30. This is a good goal and has been …
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