September 2006

Hat tip to SingleMa for pointing this out.
Apparently, I’m reference on Wikipedia for the definition of Net Worth, along with some of my favorite bloggers!
Boston Gal’s Open Wallet
My Money Blog
My Open Wallet
Single Ma’s Fabulous Financials
Today my Feedburner stats broke 100. I know it fluctuates, but man, that’s way cool.

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CNN/Money again, but this time the story isn’t so positive.
I’ve always wondered about the 70% rule of estimating your income during retirement. It always seemed very little to me. I understand cutting back because you no longer have a daily commute, but what if you have daily activities like volunteering and shopping? That’s still driving [...]

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CNN/Money reports on Chipotle.
Well, maybe not integrity, but it sure tastes good!
I always get the pork at Chipotle since I love me the pig. But I also make the effort to support the kind of farming that Niman Ranch does. I believe that the meat tastes better. I like gamier, more flavorful meat. I love [...]

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Sometime in August, I added a link to IndexCreditCards.com on my sidebar. I did it because they asked me for a link, they linked me early on, and also because they were running a contest.
I’d never buy myself an iPod. If I was the kind to buy one, I’d probably already have it. My other [...]

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I love Meebo! I use several types of chat and Meebo is a nice integrator. The one kind it doesn’t do is IRC, which is a bummer, since my technical friends are usually online there for immediate help.
But I wanted to try MeeboMe, which is a chat widget you can drop onto your blog. I’ve [...]

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ExxonMobil doesn’t offer benefits to gay and lesbian partners of its employees.
The comments on the article are really pathetic. I’m gay-friendly and I am very pro-Mobil. My parents were Mobil gas retailers for a very long time and I am extremely brand loyal when it comes to gas.
However, as gas has inched higher and higher, [...]

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Why don’t PFBloggers use NetBank? Seems like everyone uses ING or HSBC or Emigrant Direct. NetBank has better CD rates than ING does right now.
A friend of mine has been using NetBank since 2000. He swears by it. I never felt that comfortable with moving all my checking to an online bank, but I see [...]

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My car turned 100,000 on Saturday morning as I drove to PA. I was at mile marker 68.5 in Maryland on I-95 northbound, just past White Marsh.
My car is a mess. I really have to get a lot work done to it. As I think about it there is quite a litany of fixes. I [...]

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My property taxes on the condo are due in April and in October. Normally they are paid out of escrow. When I returned from Cape Cod on Sunday (last week), I got quite a fright in the mailbox.
I got a ‘NOTICE’ from ‘ARLINGTON COUNTY’. Nice big letters on the outside of that envelope. It said [...]

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