Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the monthly archives:
I feel I have to announce my progress today or else I’ll start feeling down about things.
1) I am making some progress on my credit cards. A new chart will be going up at NCN Network for $16,154.26. Even though I am still charging a little on my cards, I am making sure to pay [...]
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Killing your Television is worth a million bucks!
Yep yep. It’s true. I save space in my apartment and lots of money.
I have no extra energy costs.
I have no cable bill.
I have very few movies to take up space.
I canceled Netflix.
I have no entertainment center.
I have no game consoles. (But the Wii does tempt me.)
I think [...]
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James of DINKs Finance reposted a list of saving tips from Jane Bryant Quinn. It’s a good list and a great way to take stock of where I am.
1) Save all your cash gifts: – Not really doing it, but I hardly get cash gifts anymore.
2) Pay Yourself First: Got the 401K going on. I [...]
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Turns out my little discrepancy from the paycheck to my 401k plan is a question of printing. My paystub has the wrong amount for the corporate match. I am only supposed to receive 2.5% of my salary as corporate matching (if I contribute more than 5%), however, the math ended up showing that the corporate [...]
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The World at PRI did a great story on “food miles”. Basically it’s the commute your food takes to get to where you can buy it.
Personally I usually buy my groceries at one of three places:
The local farmer’s market, about 1 mile away from my apartment.
The local Harris Teeter, which is on my way home [...]
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Apparently he’s been notified by the FBI of a criminal investigation.
From my very limited experience, he’ll probably only go to jail for 3 years and then like the defendant on whose case I worked before, he can get out of jail and go right back to fraudulent practices and get indicted again about 5 years [...]
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Do you like used books? Then get ready! This Saturday the Goodwill at Glebe Road and Route 50 is having a book sale.
The last one on June 9th got rained on pretty badly. But there’s a sign out today that says there’s another one “This Saturday”. All books were a dollar each at the last [...]
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Oh dear. I still write paper checks for my HOA fee. I like to have an imaged copy of it, but I suppose I can get away from paper checks now primarily because of my sheer laziness outweighs the check writing. I have no impetus for ordering new checks. I don’t need to express myself [...]
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After sleeping on it for a night, I called three places for tires. NTB, Merchants and Goodyear. Specifically I was looking for Goodyear Assurance TripleTred tires, which were the top-ranked all-season tire for regular driving by Consumer Reports. They were ranked in the middle for performance tires.
I called all three shops and only the Goodyear [...]
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The last meal was chicken salad with capers on bread with brie. The last of the unfrozen broth was used to make polenta which I was going to for breakfast, but will eat with some steak tonight for dinner. Yum!
Ok, no more chicken this week. I bought lunch only once and dinner only once, both [...]
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