The dreaded check engine light - what to do?
The check engine light came on in one of our cars sometime last week. Now before someone starts saying “I told you so that’s what you get for driving a POS”, it’s not on my …
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Good posts on why bonds are important in a portfolio
If you’ve been following my blog lately you’ve been noticing that I’ve been questioning why one would ever have any money in bonds in the long-term due to their sub-par performance …
Read MoreCash Plus Rewards Card arbitrage
Well I had an experience with my Chase Cash plus Rewards card lately that got me thinking. Well you know that bright idea I had with purchasing about 3 playstation 3s at launch and trying to turn them …
Read MoreOT: The Bears still suck
Happy Schnapps Combo - The Bears still suck (snippet didn't want to get in trouble by posting the whole song) Well being from Wisconsin and a lifelong Packer fan it was with great joy that I …
Read MoreAsset Allocation - If you are young why wouldn't you be 100% stocks - Comments and Recap
Well turns out that me suggesting that young people with long investing time horizons invest 100% in stocks stirred up a lot of activity on my blog and to be honest I never could have imagined I would …
Read MoreAsset Allocation - If you are young why wouldn’t you be 100% stocks?
I know I have had a few people comment on some of my posts that I’m too heavily weighted towards stocks (100%) and it’s sort of common knowledge that when laying out your asset allocation …
Read MoreRetirement NestEgg Report - January 2007
Well it was another good month for my retirement nestegg. Gained over 4.5% and am inching closer to the $50,000 mark. It’s amazing how fast my nestegg continues to grow as just last December it …
Read MoreFestival of Frugality #59
The Festival of Frugality #59 is up at Thetaoofmakingmoney. I always find the festival of frugality to be full of great new ideas on how to save money and this one is no different. Golbguru did an …
Read MoreMy first day at new job
Well today is my first day at my new employer. It was easy finding jobs, but is was difficult deciding which job was the best for me (as you can tell if you’ve followed my blog this month). …
Read MoreCarnival of Personal Finance #85
The carnival of personal finance #85 is being hosted at FiveCentNickel this week. As usual there are many high quality posts at the carnival. I submitted my article on the odds of winning the lottery …
Read MoreMy Financial Journey’s pimp ride
Well if there was one thing and one thing only that I could recommend to people really looking for ways to save money to get out of debt or save some extra money for retirement it would be don’t …
Read MoreAn unexpected $4000+ for a couple emails
Well today was a pretty good day for me. In the span of a few hours I found out that I’d be receiving about $4,000 total that I never expected to receive. The first windfall came when I went out …
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