Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the category archives:
Year ago when I started this blog, I used my credit cards for nearly everything. Eventually I took a cue from a friend and I started using cash to buy consumable things I couldn’t return. This meant primarily dinners out, groceries and gas for my car. In making the switch to cash, I lost my [...]
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My motorcycle isn’t running. The carburetor is clogged and so I had to trailer it to my boyfriend’s house and I’ll probably trailer it to our new rental because we’re under severe time constraints. My boyfriend did not have time to fix the engine before we had to move. I’m only trying to get it [...]
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Cap would be so proud. My boyfriend gets rid of stuff on eBay and Craigslist all the time. Now that I can point to stuff and say, “I don’t want it anymore,” he can sell stuff for me in less than a day.
Latest sale was my old Trek 1000 sport-entry racer. I bought it for [...]
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The nice thing about having an elastic budget is being able to find cash immediately.
Having the car thrown out of alignment was killing me the other day. I sat looking at my spreadsheets trying to figure out how to make my goals for credit card payoff by the end of the year.
Luckily I just decided [...]
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I have about $32 in my wallet today. I’ve been conserving my cash and cooking dinner at home. Things at work are hot and heavy and Thursday is breakfast day at the office if you like donuts, bagels, muffins, cookies or coffee. I’ll take my turn later on the sign up sheet. If I am [...]
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I know I have to get out. This place is going to the birds. I ran into a neighbor of mine and frankly, there is a situation afoot which I do not like. I don’t mind so much the foreclosures and the low price being set on one of the condos in the building. If [...]
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I’m holding onto a lot of cash at the end of April. My net worth is going to look screwy I think.
For the most part, it’s totally artificial because I took out a $5K balance transfer on one my credit cards to cover the bathroom remodel. I wonder if I should hold back some [...]
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Contemplating things further, I think I can finance a bathroom remodel. Especially since the estimate I received is under $6K. Add on 10% for overruns, as most places advise, and it’s still slightly under the $6K mark.
Resources available:
1. The insurance company will pay me for the repairs ~$950.
2. My tax refund is ~$1400.
3. My stimulus [...]
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I’m up quite a bit because I was able to get my Medical FSA reimbursement earlier this month. It’s up 14.2% month over month and up about 15% from March of last year.
The main thing I noticed is that my main retirement account holdings is down 8.88% since the year began. That’s a lot and [...]
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I wish I had more to say right now. There seems like there should be a lot but there isn’t.
1. I’ve been sick as a dog and working from home. Sleep is good. It’s put my wedding trip into jeopardy though. I’m afraid I won’t be able to drive to Jersey tonight. That would be [...]
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