Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the monthly archives:
Saving Solider took a lot of issue with my Festival submission. He jumped all over me highlighting the downsides.
1) There’s a reason why there’s a question mark in the title. I’m not saying that it’s fully guaranteed like FDIC. I think I outline some of the risks in the post. I was just presenting a [...]
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This is a great article from CNNMoney. It kind of highlights the problem of ARM’s and easy credit/access to money. My favorite point is that the 3rd and 4th years of a mortgage are when most forclosures happen. Then there are relavant statistics on who has mortgages and who doesn’t.
It’s worth reading. It kind of [...]
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I know it’s totally uneven on the bottom. But my girlfriends didn’t even notice I cut it until I pointed it out to them. It’s still long hair. Though as soon as I took my ponytail down, they saw how badly I had it hacked off. Since I wear my hair up most of the [...]
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Dawn at Frugal for Life has the newest Festival of Frugality available now.
This Festival has the most submissions ever this week. She’s divided them nicely into concept categories. I think it’s a really good way to sort them out. Everyone out there can shop for a good deal and often knows where to root them [...]
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The Checkout is one of my favorite consumer news websites. It’s the WaPo’s blog by Caroline Mayer. It’s a good one stop location for product recalls, class action suit information and general news of use to consumers when the go shopping. (The recent yogurt post and its follow up are two of my favorites since [...]
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Much has been written about former Congressman Randall ‘Duke’ Cunningham’s nefarious bribery activities, so I won’t write about it here. But a small half column article in the WSJ caught my eye.
The Treasury Department is auctioning off this man’s ill-gotten gains, namely some antique home furnishings which a defense contractor purchased for $12,000.00 and had [...]
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I just ordered a two tech books from Barnes & Noble. I got a free sample of Starbucks coffee. Not just for one small pot, but enough for 3 or 4 of those small pots for one or two people.
They must think that if you’re a developer, you need caffeine. Well, in this case, I [...]
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This is going to sound like one of my automobile focused posts, but it’s really about web traffic.
Tim at asks what draws in subscribers to his feed.
In the few short months this blog has been open, I’ve tried to follow FreeMoneyFinance’s advice on generating web traffic. He’s got pretty good advice and a lot [...]
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Carnival of Personal Finance #41 is available now at Financial Baby Steps. I have to thank the Carnival hostess, the beautiful baby Margo for again posting me towards the top!
The quick two that caught my eye:
I liked NCN’s ‘pouring’ of savings little by little into the empty glass of his savings account.
Health and Savings from [...]
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A full section from The Washington Post. Gotta love WaPo with the timely feature. The warm weather is just a few weeks away and there were a mad number of open houses today on my short drive to Old Town Alexandria.
My particular favorite is the guy who wants to buy a condo in the area [...]
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