Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the monthly archives:
Alright. I give up. Last month, I did ok. My credit card payments totaled $1200 which went a long way to paying stuff down, which let me move the Debt-O-Meter just a wee bit.
But if that was so successful, what went wrong?
I got a call from my mom. I promised her a new dishwasher for [...]
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This isn’t for me. I wasn’t even going to post this, but the kind Ministers at the Ministry of Minor Perfidy thought I should even though, it’s kind of painful. I don’t do this very often, but I think there are a few things you should know.
1. If you are a victim of a violent [...]
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Now that I’m keeping track of what I’m spending again, the lunch spending has gotten better. I’m definitely feeling lucky because work has provided some great free meals for me, but the caloric intake is kind of high. We’re having an end of summer BBQ next week, which is pretty cool.
Unfortunately, I still spent $45.75 [...]
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Snowflaking is a derivative of the Debt Snowball. I’m not a formal snowflaker. Silly names don’t mean much to me. But I did pull a classic snowflake maneuver this week.
I put away $200 more into savings. And I looked at my money for the rest of the month and decided that I could put $100 [...]
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I spent last Friday talking a friend out of selling his Bank of America shares. (FWIW I hold BAC indirectly via BRKB.) My friend had bought it at $29 and rode the roller coaster on it all week. He was looking to get out of it at around $36-37 a share for about 20-22% profit, [...]
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“You’re not a man. You’re not even a good sample.” – B. Stanwyck
OR
“10% dividend on $5 billion”
Warren Buffett is buying preferred shares of Goldman Sachs. The messenger of this news is an old friend of mine who turned me onto BRKB, but did not buy any himself. Go figure.
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Everyone needs to try! Tricia started and now she gets why it’s so good.
Here’s links to:
Johno’s amazing whole wheat recipe – I’m sold, even though it takes a while. It’s worth it to breakdown the whole wheat flour into amazing flavor. Some things are worth the wait
A post with some of my newbie bread baker [...]
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Have you ever heard this phrase before? If you have, it was probably in Economics 101 at school. I heard it over and over again in Macroeconomics 101 my freshman year of college and frankly, it grew tiresome.
However, the other concept I learned that year which I really like, is Utility. What is the utility [...]
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Kiplinger’s has a fantastic, concise summary of the events surrounding the financial crisis and what might happen in the future.
I have to agree with the last point. Don’t lose hope. I’m a horrible pessimist and extremely negative about most things in life, but truly I think the markets will recover. Just keep on doing regular [...]
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