Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the monthly archives:
This email is making the rounds. I’m breaking one of my arbitrary rules here, but it’s too good to pass up. And yes, there is a personal finance angle in it.
EDIT: Thanks to an anonymous commenter, the veracity has been proved at Snopes.com. But what does that say about us for wanting to believe it?
NBA [...]
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JD weighs in on index funds. Read the Dowie article link. It’s absolutely incredible reading. I used to work at the place that brought MPT research to many a CFA at these institutions charging high fees. I think that’s part of the reason why I’m not really crazy about most mutual funds. It’s all the [...]
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Recently, Madame X shared a story about a high school trip to Greece she sacrificed because she didn’t think her parents could afford it.
Coincidentally, I also had the opportunity to travel to Greece in high school. And this is the story about how I found a way to pay for most of it. This story [...]
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Jim is letting me guest blog for him today. Check it out!
Welcome readers of Blueprint for Prosperity! Thanks for stopping by!
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While you slackers were on your precious little holidays last month, I was working hard, coding some cool stuff for work and reading a lot of blogs.
For you, I present some of the articles I liked best, because I forgot to publish it sooner.
Weight of Money on intentional living. I think this applies to human [...]
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Technorati tells me that 50 blogs are linked to me with 99 links. This week will be a very good week for me because I also have a guest blogger post going up soon with a well-known high traffic PF blog.
I don’t have many blog-oriented goals, unlike FMF. But I do like to hit certain [...]
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I got a very interesting email from the CEO of my company this week. No, it wasn’t to congratulate me on a job well done. It was to tell me of a change in policy for 401k matching. They’re calling it the 401k True-Up.
Basically, if you are a front-loader on your 401k plan, i.e. you [...]
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CNN/Money with a story that should surprise no one.
Inculcating teens with a Keeping Up with the Joneses mentality is going to drive us into the ground. It’s not a generational gap, now that I’ve joined the ranks of the untrustworthy over-30 crowd. This is purely about debt and economics. Teen overspending is going to translate [...]
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Trent at The Simple Dollar has the new Festival of Frugality #58 available now.
He’s got a great format up, summarizing each post with a pull quotation.
The articles that caught my eye?
Digerati Life, on the wild ways to save money. I’ll pass on the mushroom one though. High risk. But if you ever get the chance [...]
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This morning, I was cold. So I grabbed my corporate logo fleece jacket from my old company. Right now, I’m drinking hot water and honey from a corporate logo thermal mug my new company gave me for Christmas.
The jacket was a team-builder for morale. We used to wear them as a group to our company-wide [...]
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