Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the monthly archives:
I’m a bad commenter. Sometimes I don’t revisit places I’ve left comment droppings. Today I found this old comment from Seattle Simplicity, a favorite blogger of mine.
The story of the 40% raise is that I built up a lot of technical skill while working a humdrum job. It was high stress and burnout. At the [...]
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If I save approximately 20% of my income per month with a 7 or 8% return, I could be a millionaire by the time I’m 66.
That means I need to save about $1000 a month. That’s a lot of money, but I’ve been doing that to build up my Save-O-Meter. I’m still floating some credit [...]
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Thank god my local library has online renewal. I’ve been away for the weekend and forgot that my books were due yesterday. I could have driven over to the library this morning and dropped the books into the book drop, but I am not an early bird. Instead I jumped online and renewed two books [...]
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I like this map, but it never works right for me since I lock down a lot of Active-X/pop-up settings.
Try the lo-fi list.
If you’re in DC near a Metro station, you might want to get added to this list. No, I never get any referring traffic, but I like to go there and spy on [...]
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If you want more traffic to your blog, try getting interviewed by Jim at
Blueprint for Prosperity. Jim is a swell guy and has lots of subscribers to his feed. I noticed a considerable jump in traffic after he interviewed me.
It was fun to do and it helps crystalize your thoughts about your own blog and [...]
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If you have any submissions to next week’s Carnival of Personal Finance, please submit them this week. I’ll be hosting next week and I look forward to reading submissions, especially by new PF bloggers.
Carnival of Personal Finance #50 is available now at My Open Wallet. It’s a rainbow of delights!
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NPR ran the story this morning. I only caught the tail end about Josh (?) Levy and his frugal habits. NPR is running a series of stories and there should be another one next week.
I am bookmarking this for myself. So there will be no posting till Monday at the earliest.
Plans for the weekend are [...]
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I got my God of Wealth Good Luck coin last week or the week before. I’ve been crazy busy that I forgot to post it here. I was lucky and I was issued Coin #1. That’s Ichiban to you, as in Number One, Best. I haven’t quite yet decided how to give it away since [...]
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Peoria Pundit has linked back to me and a few of his readers are clicking through. I’d like to extend a hearty welcome to them. Please leave me a comment if you’re visiting from Peoria.
I would like to say that two websites don’t make the Blogosphere, but I hope this story spreads the word.
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I was inspired to write this from a post at Yet Another Blog About Money.
Reverse mortgages are aimed at older people who have a lot of equity in their homes. The idea is that you mortgage it out to a bank and instead of you making a payment to the bank, they pay you every [...]
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