Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the monthly archives:
aka Posts I’ve read today that I’ve enjoyed.
Jim at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity on finding out that a co-worker makes more for doing the same job. I think he’s got good advice, but my comment has a slightly different take on it.
SF Ordinary Girl at SF Money Musings on juggling her financial priorities and that [...]
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I applied for a job there once. To give it a whirl, I tried out Second Life. I wanted to like it. But in truth, I can’t stand it. I just don’t see the point of it. I like hanging out in one specific online game and it has avatars and stuff, but really, I [...]
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Greetings! Sorry for the late post, but I had to come home on short notice. Some how ‘perforated eardrum’ doesn’t translate well in Korean and I couldn’t understand how serious my mom’s operation was going to be till she told me that some funky gunk was running out of her ear. Anyhow, she’s fine, but [...]
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First off, I don’t own DELL stock or their computers. (Frugal girls like me go with cheap $400 generic boxes!) Second, I work for an accounting and finance team at work and helping the accounting team go over the numbers is part of my job.
Apparently Dell has stopped trading on the stock market because they [...]
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EDIT: Fixed the CFA definition, per Asset Gatherer
Most PF Bloggers are not a financial professionals. If you follow advice in a blog and lose everything, you can’t sue the blogger. For that reason, I tend not to advise readers about their situation because it makes me exceedingly nervous in our litigious society to speak directly [...]
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Check out this article at Wired Magazine about a new social networking site called Spock.
This frightens the bejesus out of me because I have a fairly generic name, I still found myself in the first 100 results from a business networking site. CRAZY. (Thank god for the faceless yellow masses who share my name! Anonymity [...]
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One single thought and one only:
“Damn, I hope it stays low till my 401k contribution kicks in from Friday’s paycheck.”
Nope. When I see a market go down, I think one thing only. “Time to buy!”
That’s really the only thought to have.
Don’t panic if you’re under 60. There is plen-TEE of time for the market to [...]
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I’ve been avoiding comment about millionaires in Silicon Valley who feel like the rest of us working joes. Finding time in my schedule to stop and think hasn’t been there and I’ve been avoiding the issue because unlike most PF bloggers, a large chunk of my family lives and works in Silicon Valley. I would [...]
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I dip wayyy too much. I like the idea of th CDs. I don’t know much about CDs. Anything I need to know when looking for one?
Thanks!
LadyDoughGirl at Finance Psychology
I don’t have a lot of fancy advice for LadyDoughGirl. There’s good stuff on CD laddering by Nickel and also by Jonathan. I highly recommend [...]
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Yesterday was three happy years of condo ownership.
Financially, the picture outlook is much better than it was 3 years ago. I was still paying off my car, my student loans and had about
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