House hunting, Day 1: Seeing what is out there
This past weekend, I decided to start house hunting. The goal of the day was to check out the model homes of all the builders currently building in my desired location. At first I only wanted to look...
View ArticleRecording my way to financial fitness
Something I don’t ever do often enough is track my spending. I live within my means of course, and I’m pretty good with checking receipts for purchases made with plastic against my statements and my...
View ArticleI don’t doubt that Murphy is at work
Great news folks: I won’t be boring you with camera news any more because I got a camera! But then I didn’t and now I almost have a camera again. Here’s how my tale of faux woe goes: First off, let me...
View ArticleCall me anytime
For years I have had the world’s worst cell phone plan, basically by choice because I’ve been too lazy to switch it. (I haven’t been too lazy to complain about it to friends though!) When I switched to...
View ArticleI like free the best
A while ago, I wrote an entry on the unused gift cards that I had apparently been saving for a rainy day that never seemed to come. Since then I’ve made some progress in spending them, but I’ve also...
View ArticleFraud follows
I had another incident where a card I carry in my wallet was involved in something I’m told is all too common: debit card fraud. With the technology of card readers installed on debit machines that you...
View ArticleInvest this
All this talk of it being tough economic times had not really affected me until recently when I received my quarterly statement from the company that I invest with. Thanks to my dad, I began investing...
View ArticleWrong spending, right spending
I have the odd distinction of being able to say that I’m both good and bad with money. I waste a lot of money weekly on what they call “the Latte Factor”: a little bit of money spent regularly that...
View ArticleJummy does personal finance
I love deals and hate paying full price for anything, so it kind of follows that I’d eventually get to the point where I care about where my hard-earned money is going. I’ve decided to no longer...
View ArticleWhere ‘taxes’ is a dirty word
I filed my t*xes for 2011 on time yesterday, meaning I had a full day’s grace. My colleague rushed out of work today just before 5pm saying something that I didn’t quite catch and when she returned to...
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