Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the category archives:
Hooray for handy boyfriends!
Several months ago, boyfriend’s dog accidentally peed on my laptop. Instead of paying the ridiculous $750 fee to repair my laptop or buying me a new one, we decided that he was going to try fixing it. eBay has a ton of MacBook parts on sale from other damaged laptops that weren’t [...]
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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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Now that I covered the non-financial side of my departure from my last job, I will cover the financial side as much as I can. Every place is different. Each time is different but I hope I can offer you something here for your next transition.
The first thing is that I was leaving around the [...]
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The Dough Roller, not a blog I frequent, but he has some real gems in his blog.
A few weeks ago, I liked this Doomsday Fund article where he delineates exactly what he’d do in desperate times.
What would I do?
1) Cancel my phone service and DSL line into the house. I have a cellphone. Now that [...]
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UPDATE: Voting closed. In 12 hours, consensus seems to be option #3.
Alrighty, here’s the scenario. I owe my friend $500 for a nice used laptop. I have paid her a good chunk of the agreed price, but now that I have the computer in hand, I need to pay her the rest.
Now, when I agreed [...]
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So this week, some congressmen decided to introduce some legislation for dental heath care for Medicare patients, particularly through S-CHIP. That’s wonderful. Unfortunately, my dental plan really sucks. If I am going to get any more work done, I am going to have to find another job for dental insurance.
You think I am kidding, but [...]
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Alrighty. This was drafted at a ridiculous hour, so pardon me for poor thought processes.
The main thing is that August was a three paycheck month. I’m holding a lot of extra cash right now and frankly, it’s skewing the numbers. My car’s valuation came from the county assessor’s office. I still have a lowball valuation. [...]
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My tires told me ’screw you’ last night. Literally. I have a screw stuck in one of the tires. I *THOUGHT* I heard something funny driving from work to happy hour last night but I wasn’t sure. As I was leaving the restaurant, I needed to fuel up so I stopped at a Shell (and [...]
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I have been holding back a recap because I was waiting for my NCN Network graph to go up. And I actually think I’m sort of repeating myself with this post. But the skinny on my March entry is this, I got a huge bonus at work.
The big bonus means that my company will take [...]
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It’s a lyric by the B52’s. It pretty much sums up how I’ve been feeling lately about my money. It’s just a big mess.
I moved my Save-O-Meter down. I pulled out $2000.00 for my car repair, my gift to my mom to repair her windows, and to pay down my credit cards. Fortunately, the Save-O-Meter [...]
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