Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the monthly archives:
This was a productive but expensive weekend for stuff around my apartment.
1) My boyfriend and his friend replaced my kitchen overhead light for me. Total cost? $55.00 for a light and new wiring caps.
2) I picked up some used bookshelves from my friends. I bought them used for $100.00. One of them is solid wood. [...]
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Read this daily meditation by 3 Things About Money. She writes a pretty good blog and this post caught my eye because I think I’m having a lot of anxiety about money lately. Scratch that. I KNOW I’m having a lot of anxiety about money lately.
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JD at Get Rich Slowly has a link to Business Week’s Poverty Business article. It’s about the business of keeping poor people poor.
The authors were on On Point, an NPR radio program yesterday. It reinforces what’s in the story. Some more insight, and a Byrider spokesperson gets questioned by the host. Kind of interesting, but [...]
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Hello and welcome to readers of Blueprint for Financial Prosperity!
Jim posted what he’d do if he lost his job, including my old post on the same subject. and I appreciate your stopping by here.
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I’m so sorry that my site STILL looks crappy in MS Internet Explorer 7, but you [...]
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Dong left a comment yesterday about my fortitude in staying 100% in stocks. However, I think I better clarify that.
I am in 100% stock investments via 8 different mutual funds in 2 different accounts and about 5 or 6 stocks for dabbling in active investing and learning about stocks. Let’s just say the latter shows [...]
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I just realized, I have 18 months to go before I am fully vested at my current job. WOO HOO!
I was IMing with SF Money Musings on Meebo the other night. She asked me about my 401k investments because I was keying them into Quicken while chatting with her. I am very close to hitting [...]
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CNN/Money has an article that says gas boycotts are dumb.
I dug up something old I wrote to a mailing list, circa 2004. I thought I posted a similar rant here ages ago, but my archives tell me I haven’t. So here is most of what I wrote, edited for clarity, time-perspective and a removal of [...]
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I went to a reunion this weekend and one of my old classmates is a financial advisor. We got to talking and I admit, I was feeling the waters a bit for a consultation. I also was complaining that my parents’ broker has wandered around to about 3 firms in the past 15 years, which [...]
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Use the Meebo window on the left to chat with me this evening from 10pm EDT to 11pm EDT. (That’s right now for Cap, who can’t tell timezones.)
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So we had this argument about the car and whether or not to have the tow truck take it to an expensive dealership on a Sunday.
I called two different dealerships and no answer. So I Googled for towing service and found one very close to home. It’s 24-hours and in a pinch, we can walk [...]
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