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    Monday, May 12, 2008 Picking Up the (Payment) Pace (9 clicks)
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May 12, 2008 at 1:50 pm ET We’re well into the month of May now, and after my April in the clouds financially, let’s see if I’m on track again…
I ended up going back to my tried and true weekly payment system. I’d never done it with the auto loan before so I tested it out with a couple of e-payments [...] ... (more) Judgement of Character (3 clicks)
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May 12, 2008 at 9:21 am ET A guilty pleasure of mine is the television program Survivor.
This season I think I may have missed one episode — and it only snuck by me because of some wacky scheduling on CBS because of March Madness College Basketball.
Last night was the finale where they crowned the winner — Parvati outlasted Amanda to take the [...] ... (more) Friday, May 9, 2008 Home Improvements : Sewage Rerouted (6 clicks)
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May 9, 2008 at 3:10 pm ET The plumber came out yesterday morning and did his thing to fix our basement sewage problem.
When I arrived home, after the bank incident, I took a trip down to the scary basement to see the fine workmanship.
Eh, it looks alright.
He tucked the new pipe real high and tight among the floor joists, which was nice, [...] ... (more) Debts Falling; Assets…not so much. (3 clicks)
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May 9, 2008 at 8:11 am ET I can’t really say that I’m good at making money. I also can’t say that I’m very good at saving money either. Neither is one of my strong points.
I am, however, confident in saying that I’m very good at paying down debts.
Yeah, I know, making money, saving money, and paying down debt should [...] ... (more) Thursday, May 8, 2008 Driving Off the Lot in a Used Sub-Compact… (24 clicks)
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May 8, 2008 at 8:00 pm ET Tonight I stopped by the bank on the way home from work — you know, the drive up ATM…
Well the car in front of me was one of those beat-up used subcompacts like in the catchy FREE CREDIT REPORT .COM commercials.
Seriously, it was even the same color.
I didn’t pay them too much attention until they [...] ... (more) Keeping Mum: Unsound Financial Advice (11 clicks)
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May 8, 2008 at 8:05 am ET Earlier this week I came upon a couple of acquaintances discussing some sort of financial matter. I didn’t get all of the details, but it was apparent that one was giving the other some advice.
It was sad to me in that it was the one who is openly terrible with money doling [...] ... (more) Wednesday, May 7, 2008 Dreams of Grandeur: Three Car Garage (3 clicks)
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May 7, 2008 at 7:27 am ET Well, I made a big mistake this morning… See, over the past few years we’ve had some major work done to the exterior of our 100+ year old house. New roof, new siding, new doors, some repaired brickwork, a new porch, basically — short of an addition — we’ve done it all. [...] ... (more) Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Paid the Mortgage… Not Stimulated. (5 clicks)
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May 6, 2008 at 7:24 am ET So this morning I wrote and mailed the check for June’s mortgage payment.
Sure, it’s a little early but had it not been for the Tax Stimulus check coming in last week, I wouldn’t have been able to write that check just yet.
I’m not sure I feel stimulated by the experience.
Actually, I’m not feeling any stimulation. [...] ... (more) Monday, May 5, 2008 From Pants in a Can - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 5, 2008 at 12:57 pm ET They mailed it — that’s what took so long!
You’d think that with the stench of sewage in someone’s basement that there would be a little bit of urgency on their part.
You’d think…
What’s a little fuzzy mold, right?
Anyway, the quote is $527.74. And we’re going to do accept it.
See, this isn’t something we really want [...] ... (more) Dumb Purchases of the Past (3 clicks)
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May 5, 2008 at 8:54 am ET Following the six hundred dollar Canon Fisheyepurchase in January of 2007, another complete lapse of financial responsibility occurred a few weeks later.
My dumb purchase for February of 2007 was Adobe InDesign CS2 — the successor to Adobe PageMaker, a desktop publishing application. You want to make slick looking PDF files? InDesign is the [...] ... (more) Sunday, May 4, 2008 I-Bonds - Dodged a Financial Bullet (27 clicks)
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May 4, 2008 at 7:22 am ET Thanks to Treasury Direct’s overly secure login sequence…
With a positive cash flow again, I seriously considered throwing some money at I-Bonds again, and with interest rates dropping like a rock, if I jumped the gun before the May 1st, when the fixed rates are adjusted semi-annually, I’d have surely been pulling in a better return [...] ... (more) Friday, May 2, 2008 From Pants in a Can - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 2, 2008 at 8:04 am ET Can I just say that I hate contractors?
Seriously, is there a reputable contractor in existence? It’s really frustrating.
Over the past couple of years, we’ve done some pretty major renovations to our home. Back in December of 2005, we had our roof done. The original roof had two layers of the asphalt shingles [...] ... (more) Cha-Ching! Tax Stimulus Refund Arrives (5 clicks)
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May 2, 2008 at 5:48 am ET So last night I went to the IRS website and played with their new “Where’s My Refund?” script.
As is common for the IRS website, in my experience, it crapped out and didn’t tell me anything.
Seems most government sites have this problem — you know, a nifty calculator or pay online option where you enter all [...] ... (more) Thursday, May 1, 2008 Net Worth Update: May 2008 (7 clicks)
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May 1, 2008 at 8:12 am ET Well, April 2008 goes down as a pretty decent month for me financially. It was my first full month without a credit card balance which sounds like it should be a good thing, but in actuality, it kind of left me in a haze.
I didn’t really know where to send my money at the [...] ... (more) Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Dumb Purchases of the Past (4 clicks)
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April 30, 2008 at 7:46 am ET I’ve been bouncing around the idea of doing a monthly “dumbest purchase” post and I think I’m ready to get started, but first I’ll need to recap some of my bigger missteps from the past…
One of the neat things about keeping a detailed log of your expenses is that you can easily go back and [...] ... (more) Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Now with Pictures! (7 clicks)
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April 29, 2008 at 8:17 am ET In regards to our basement plumbing situation, a picture is worth a thousand words… and I’m not sure a thousand words would even begin to scratch the surface of describing the included odor.
The plumber comes out tonight to give us an estimate and hopefully the problem will be corrected later this week — apparently it’s [...] ... (more) Monday, April 28, 2008 Low Productivity Lately (5 clicks)
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April 28, 2008 at 10:48 am ET I didn’t get much done this weekend. Motivation isn’t quite at an all time low, but it’s not far off either.
I’d had plans to spend some quality time updating the blog, but it never happened.
I ended up playing an NHL video game instead — for hours. I’m a little embarrassed to admit it, [...] ... (more) Friday, April 25, 2008 Is there a Starbucks in my Basement? (4 clicks)
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April 25, 2008 at 8:33 am ET Seems our first home improvement project of 2008 has snuck up on us.
It was only a month ago that we paid off the final bit of the vinyl siding project from 2007. We’re not ready yet?!?
But this one seems to be an emergency repair… See, our basement is filling with, well, crap. [...] ... (more) Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Are you Irrational? (4 clicks)
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April 23, 2008 at 7:21 am ET A couple of days ago, the guy that wrote Living Rich by Spending Smart: How to Get More of What You Really Want, Greg Karp, had an article run on my local newspaper’s website.
The idea was comparing the spending habits of Homer Simpson and Mr. Spock (from Star Trek). You know, illogical vs. logical. [...] ... (more) Tuesday, April 22, 2008 That’s No Moon, that’s a Space Station… (3 clicks)
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April 22, 2008 at 8:14 am ET Over the weekend, I came across an AP report regarding the blue prints for the NYC Freedom Tower that they’re going to build in place of the World Trade Center:
Report: NYC Freedom Tower plans found in trash
By Associated Press
NEW YORK - A homeless man has come forward with two sets of confidential ground zero [...] ... (more) Friday, April 18, 2008 Eh, Screw Paying the Mortgage… (24 clicks)
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April 18, 2008 at 2:15 pm ET Reading an article on CBNC today, I came across a bothersome quote from an analyst in reference to the rising number of people “walking away” from their mortgages:
“I don’t know where the tipping point is,” Wachovia chief risk officer Don Truslow told analysts on a conference call. “But somewhere when a borrower crosses the 100 [...] ... (more) Thursday, April 17, 2008 My 401k Balance is (Finally) Up! (4 clicks)
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April 17, 2008 at 8:44 am ET After the past two favorable days in the markets, combined with my monthly contribution that was deposited earlier this week, I’m happy to report that my balance is *finally* higher than it was on January 1.
Now I know, it’s not really higher, since I’ve added thousands in contributions since the start of the year only [...] ... (more) Credit Card Roll Call - April 2008 (7 clicks)
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April 17, 2008 at 8:00 am ET I’ve been wanting to do this again since I eliminated the last of my credit card debt last month.
Should be interesting to see how things fall and how the credit card companies treat/tempt me now that I’m not carrying any balances.
For a recap, here’s how things panned out in previous roll calls:
» June 2007 Roll [...] ... (more) Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Is the Price of Oil *Really* Rising? (2 clicks)
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April 15, 2008 at 1:55 pm ET Today at lunch while listening to the radio, I heard a report the the price of oil had reached a new high — $113 per barrel.
Moments earlier, there was a report about inflation and the value of the US dollar falling in comparison to other currencies.
Hmmmm… think the two stories are connected?
I do — but [...] ... (more) 2008 Economic Stimulus Payment Plans (2 clicks)
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April 15, 2008 at 9:19 am ET Since it was first announced that we’d all be receiving an Economic Stimulus Payment in the mail back in January, I’d been hearing varying numbers. For us, at first, it sounded like we’d automatically receive $1200…
I was pretty excited about that news.
Then the media made it out like it would be only $600 [...] ... (more) Items 1 - 25 of 119
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