Cashed in my hoard of savings bonds
Today I gathered up all of the savings bonds that my wife and I had accumulated over the years and took them to the bank to be cashed in. It’s the first time I had ever tried to cash in a …
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Credit Scores Revamped
It appears that the three main credit reporting agencies have decided to adopt the same scoring system for determining your credit score. In the past each company had its own method of determining …
Read MoreMy First Carnival!
I am participating in my first carnival this week (Carnival of Personal Finance) hosted at Personal Finance Advice. I submitted “Reasons you should not save for retirement” article to the …
Read MoreWaiting Just One More Year To Start Investing
How many years do you have till retirement? Thinking about putting off saving for retirement just one more year? Well check out the chart below to see what it will cost you. In my case I am 26.5 years …
Read MoreReasons why you should not save for retirement
When it comes to saving for retirement most people are pretty good at coming up with excuses as to why they can’t save for retirement right now. There’s the mortgage, the cost of raising …
Read MoreRoth 401K Contribution Increase
Well our HR department sent out the form that allows us to modify our contribution percentage for the upcoming quarter. I went ahead and bumped up my percentage from 14% to 17.5%. This increase is a …
Read More$100,000 by Age 30 Report Update (Feb 2006)
As you may know I decided earlier this month to set a goal for myself to save $100,000 in principal by the time I am 30. This is a pretty ambitious goal seeing as I have less than 4 years before the …
Read MoreFeb 2006 - Retirement NestEgg Report
Seeing as how I solidified my $100,000 by Age 30 Goal and seeing as how the goal is based simply on contributions alone, I think I will release a separate post each month detailing the process on that …
Read MoreTaking my own advice
Well today I took my own advice and transferred about $6,000 that I had laying around in my ING Direct account and used it to pay down my HELOC. Some of this money is spoken for (2007 Roth IRAs), but …
Read MoreWal-Mart Wallet Photos for a whole lot less
I’m cheap or well frugal and I’m sort of proud of it. It’s not so much that I mind spending money, but if I know I can use my own ingenuity to find the same item for less I’m …
Read MoreCredit cards better for my net worth than high yield savings like ING Direct?
Soon after I got my first job I got my first credit card. Because I traveled a lot for work and ended up putting a lot of company expenses on my credit card, I decided to get an airline miles card so …
Read MorePfBlogs.org
Well after technically only having my blog up for about a week, I noticed getting a bunch of traffic coming from PfBlogs.org. I went to check out their site and they have a pretty awesome collection …
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