Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the category archives:
I don’t know about you, but I left college with about $20-25K in loans. It’s been so long I forgot the exact amount. But I do remember that my freshman year of college cost about $19K for tuition and another $7K for room and board (19-meal plan).
I just ran across a NYTimes article and in [...]
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The tuition reimbursement came in last week. Very exciting stuff. I would turn it around to pay the credit card down, but there’s funky stuff going on with my dental bills. I’m holding on to most of it in savings for the moment, but using a chunk of it to pay off a dental expense [...]
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1) I found the missing iPod Nano. It was in a purse I use only during the summer. I wanted to take that a barbecue yesterday and found the Nano in it. Dead battery though. I won’t sell it since I think I might be riding the bus more frequently now that I know a [...]
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There’s a new graph available now.
A small improvement. I thought I had adjusted my car asset down last month, but I see that I didn’t so I did that this month. My car is depreciating so I knocked it down a bit. I don’t actually think I could get $5K for it on the open [...]
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I broke $20K on my 401k balance this week. However, there is a small footnote to it. That is the full balance of all contributions, for which I am not fully vested. I am only 20% vested right now. When I hit the two year mark, I’ll be 60% vested. But either way, it’s still [...]
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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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Things are going great for me at my job. I got a raise earlier this year. (Per Frank, it’s a compression raise.) I got a bonus for last year’s good work and overall company performance. To cap it off, I got another raise of sorts.
I asked my boss last year if I could take an [...]
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I’m sorry, this is the real reason why I want to be rich. Forget that scholarship stuff.
Though this article did not meet the 84th Carnival of Personal Finances’ two-week requirement, I still liked it. The Digerati Life on how living in a rich neighborhood can be dangerous for the poor Yet another reason why inequity [...]
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Washington Post has an article on college costs. (This link may require registration. Try Bugmenot for a login. But FWIW, the WaPo does not spam you. I’ve been registered for years and received nothing.)
I think that it’s fine for kids to go to a community or local college to save money, but the flipside is [...]
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How parents pay for private school, courtesy of Bankrate.com.
As I’ve mentioned before, I went to a private school. I had financial aid to attend. I was a ’scholarship’ student. I took out a small loan for my junior year of high school, which my mother, thankfully, paid behind my back sometime when I was in [...]
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