Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the monthly archives:
Since the ceiling needs repair, I figure I should do the entire bathroom. I thought maybe it would cost $5K, but after talking with a few people, I need to budget closer to $7K. I suppose this is a very salient lesson that everyone needs an emergency fund. Say 3-6 months of take home pay, [...]
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This cute little restaurant has charming original artwork decor, granite tabletops, and little jade plants in white pots sitting on each table. The menu is gourmet, but not inaccessible. The service was friendly and nice. Though this place specializes in wines and holds wine tastings on Wednesday nights, we went for Sunday brunch. We walked [...]
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Last night we met at Fado in DC. It’s an Irish bar down near the Verizon Center aka The Phone Booth. I was reluctant to wear a hat so people could recognize me, but James from DINKS Finance convinced me that a hat was essential so I wore my Washington Capitals camouflage hat. CleverDude just [...]
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As of Monday, the leak in the wall was found and repaired. The plumbing company my HOA uses sent two different plumbers onsite to fix the drainage pipe from the kitchen of a unit two floors up and one unit over. Absolutely nothing was going down the drainpipe and all of it was going out [...]
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The ceiling caved in on my bathroom about a week ago. My friend had been staying there and she didn’t notice anything funny. I never got a call that there was something going on. Instead, on April 1st, I went to my apartment to do my taxes from home on my Quicken installed desktop. All [...]
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Basically if you are a single person with student loans and no mortgage, taxes are a breeze. Heck add on an IRA and they are still pretty darned easy.
When you have a blog business and a mortgage and significant things to keep track of, they are still easy. When you have multiple streams of income, [...]
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Ugh. I hate doing my taxes. It’s just gotten more complicated over the years since I started taking itemized deductions and deciding to run this blog as an actual business with income. At any rate, I finally started them so I can file them this this week.
Preliminary result? ~$999.00 refund.
I know many folks pooh-pooh getting [...]
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All season long, I’ve had hockey tickets I couldn’t use. Generally I liked to sell the tickets off in pairs at cost. I calculated that for my section, tickets were about $30 a pair, which is an excellent discount off face value. I’m not interested in gouging my friends, so I didn’t. However, this lucky [...]
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And no, I didn’t make a donation. I just cut it off and it got swept away.
For the last 6 months, I’ve wanted a haircut, but I didn’t know how I wanted it cut. So the best option was to do nothing. Then, like a bolt of lightning, I decided to bob my hair. Coincidentally, [...]
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I feel kind of bad. One of my friends is a mortgage broker and I told him I would give him a call after he got back from vacation about possibly refinancing.
That was a month ago. I feel like a jerk for dangling some business in front of him and then not calling.
But since that [...]
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