Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the monthly archives:
Boston Gal has written extensively about her use of an energy meter around her home and ‘phantom’ energy losses.
I got this really awesome graphic of Vampire Energy Loss* from a friend of mine. I think it’s brilliant. It shows which appliances use the most energy in two types of standby modes and the approximate dollar [...]
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EDITED: To include a link about the Lenten piggy bank.
Oink! Oink!
I still have my Lenten piggy bank, and for most of the year, it’s empty. For some reason, this year, I decided to throw small bills in there and much to my surprise, sometimes I have a nice stash of about $40. It always sort [...]
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I got a political email from some PF Bloggers. I was slightly surprised to find it in my email box. I read it thoroughly as it’s from someone I respect. Otherwise, I’d just delete them without reading.
I am not a single-issue voter, and if I was, I know what that single issue is, and it’s [...]
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The burn is healing well. I thought it might be a third degree one because there was a dark ring around it, i.e. scabbing to prevent the rest of my skin being damaged. However, the dark ring has sloughed off and my burn is doing fine. I made all my friends look at it this [...]
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I was at an A.J. Wright this weekend. It’s over near the Brentwood mail facility in DC. (Yes, the anthrax one.) My friend was looking for a cheap hair dryer so he could do the plastic shrink wrap window insulation at his house. Because we happened to be in there, we decided to check out [...]
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I suspect this year my Month-Over-Month net worth growth will wind up being negative in December. There’s just too much going on for me right now with my medical expenses and overspending. I have had one too many splurges over the holidays.
I had a nice comment the other day asking me to update the NetWorth [...]
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Do you ever spend time networking within your own company? If the answer is no, ask yourself why not?
Two stories:
1) My sibling was working in the R&D group of a software company when they happened to be chatting with the Development Lead for the core application they built at that firm. Turns out they were [...]
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Hi! Does anyone have any advice about divorcing and money? I got wind of a situation where the family is living paycheck to paycheck and the wife wants to get out of an abusive situation. All I could recommend was that she open a separate account and start squirreling away some money into it and [...]
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FWIW, let me lead off by saying my cousin works at PayPal. As far as I know, I don’t know anyone at Prosper.
Those things said, PayPal was one of the few things I adopted early. They gave me $5 bucks! What’s not to like?
The thing is, I don’t really like PayPal anymore. I thought it [...]
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Because the market has taken a dip, I put back my 5% 401k plan contributions to get the match, rather than get the match after the January lift the market experiences.
It will ease the blow of the $2-3K in losses I took in November to my retirement account balances. OUCH.
I am going to have to [...]
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