Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the monthly archives:
JLP has the 59th Carnival of Personal Finance available!
Flexo has the 46th Carnival of Debt Reduction available!
If you search back, I’ve pulled some of these articles already for Articles I’ve liked This/Last Week. I’m not participating myself since I often forget to submit before leaving for the weekend. But please check out these articles and [...]
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First of all, this post is filled with spoilers. But I’m guessing that Flaubert is not on the summer reading list of most PF Bloggers. Or else you’ve suffered through reading it once already for school. This is not the Cliff Notes. If you’re looking for that, go somewhere else.
1) Ennui – Boredom is not [...]
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Did you know that a lot of banks have free notary services if you have an account with them? Wachovia does and I’m kicking myself.
I called a UPS/FedEX type store and it was $5.00 a signature. I needed three. I called my old company because they have a notary on staff. Her services are free [...]
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Risk? We all take risks. We like to leave the house and get out and about don’t we? But how do we measure our risk? Generally we can balance our risk in driving a car by getting automobile insurance. I wish I could say the same about investments.
We all take on risk when we invest. [...]
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Recently a friend of mine approached me about planning for retirement. My friend definitely knows that she’s got to do some planning, but her head is a bit in the clouds. Fortunately, she knows this about herself, and while she feels at a loss, I’m really proud of her for recognizing that she needs to [...]
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This story makes me want to cry.
Brooke Astor or not. No elderly person deserves to be treated this way. Maybe it’s the conservative old-school Asian in me, but I am horrified that Anthony Marshall does not respect his elders. I am completely disgusted by his treatment of his mother.
This just goes to show you that [...]
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The main reason all these wedding expenses get me all cranky is that I have a major medical expense to undertake this year. It’s not like doctors publish out their price lists. I guessed that I would need to save and so I socked away a few extra thousand in my Medical FSA account last [...]
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I’ll never forget when I learned why companies operated at a loss. I was in a microeconomic theory class when we were drawing graphs on operating costs and profitability. There came a point (on a curve, naturally) where your operating costs were as low as they were going to get, but you were still not [...]
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Normally I do this in chronological order as I find something new I add it to the bottom of the post, however, I was really compelled by Five Cent Nickel’s post about his mortgage being sold and how you should handle the transfer. It’s very good advice aimed at protecting your information and I recommend [...]
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A friend of mine in SoCal has cooled her house to 82 degrees inside with a swamp cooler. It’s 104 outside and she consistently gets about 20 degrees cooler using it. It costs her about $2.50 a day to run it, though she says her arm sticks to the table a little. I guess that’s [...]
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