January 2006

Read the first two posts here and here.
I left off Part II with why it’s not always a good thing and left you with ’sound judgement’ as advice. Part III: DIY: How to figure out if it’s good or bad will hopefully elaborate some more on it.
Questions to ask:
1) How much will it cost to [...]

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Read the first part of the series, click here.
To continue the series, I bring you Part II: Why DIY is Bad.
Reasons Why DIY is Bad:
1) If you don’t know what you’re doing, you could end up spending a lot more.
2) Sometimes that ‘homemade look’ isn’t what’s called for.
3) You could get injured, hurt, or die. [...]

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The Carnival of Personal Finance is available at Fat Pitch Financials!
Many of them look interesting, but I’ve got to run to work now!

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I was inspired by Free Money Finance. FMF writes lots of series about financial topics, which I now realize is a really clever way of getting readers to come back to his site! (Boy, mappy, you really are bright sometimes.)
My first series, in honor of FMF, is about Doing-It-Yourself and why it’s good. I hope [...]

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The NADA Guides. My friend works there and pointed out their guides to me. Her family runs dealerships and she said they list prices that are more favorable to the seller overall. So check them out. They aren’t as well-known as KBB, but if you do a trade-in, the dealership certainly knows about them since [...]

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Money Blog Network is the consolidation of 5 great personal finance blogs, two of which are listed on the left, Free Money Finance and Consumerism Commentary
Meanwhile, I’m still crazy busy and have not fixed FeedBurner’s Autodiscovery feature for this page, but I will get to it soon!

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I made a bunch of deposits this week so I moved the Save-O-Meter to 34%. Progress, but slowly.
I think I got all my tax notices this year so I will be starting my preparations soon. Mostly I’m waiting for my tax forms to arrive so that I can plan if I am getting a refund [...]

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Greetings!
My recent post about real estate assessment triggered a comment from a friend about how to estimate current fair market value.
My current method uses a combination of the county’s public record available at the Washington Post, CraigsList, and Zip Realty. I’m lucky that I live in a metropolitan area where information is readily available. I [...]

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The Festival of Frugality is up at Canadian Capitalist!
I have submitted something for this week. I encourage everyone to go over there now and read more articles on frugality!

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