Comments for Mapgirl's Fiscal Challenge

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Comment on Rebalancing My Portfolio by Brian A

Brian A — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:18:22 +0000

I really like Morningstar.com’c Portfolio X-Ray feature. It costs $$ but you can get a free 2-week trial – long enough to examine a very detailed breakdown of your current holdings (% in each sector, style etc) and figure out how that would change if you rebalanced.

Comment on Planet Money’s Toxic Asset by frank

frank — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:38:10 +0000

Looks like they overpaid for their asset.
A subordinate tranche of a Negative Amortization loan originated in 2005 and 2006. Holy moly we have a live one.

Comment on How Much Do the Suburbs Suck? by Laney

Laney — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:20:45 +0000

I grew up a few blocks from Wrigley field in the 50’s,60’s, 70’s and left in 79, it was not the whimsical picture you have painted, the streets were loaded with gangs, no parking, poor schools and filthy public transportation. The yuppies came in, bought up the neighborhoods in the 80’s, gutted 100+ year old houses and sold them for ungodly amounts of money, and yet the parking is worse than ever, schools are still bad, but after seeing the filthy streets of NY city I can honestly say Chicago is cleaner. Give me the countryside anyday, keep your bustling city for those who enjoy it.

Comment on How Much Do the Suburbs Suck? by tara white

tara white — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:29:25 +0000

yeah people that live in the suburbs are WAY TOO SHELTERED!

Comment on Strategizing the Future by Best of the Rest: Happy Hour Edition | Sweating The Big Stuff

Best of the Rest: Happy Hour Edition | Sweating The Big Stuff — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:18:23 +0000

[...] liked MapGirl’s post Strategizing the Future resonated with me a lot. I like the idea of saving up instead of paying off debt, and her situation [...]

Comment on Lent 2010 by Shaun McGowan

Shaun McGowan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:16:27 +0000

Lent 2010, is really a nice chance to restart goals.. but for me either its lent or not, it’s also good to start/restart goals.

Comment on Lent 2010 by Lillie

Lillie — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:48:05 +0000

Seems like you have already gotten a jumpstart by writing down the goals you want to achieve. I think you can do it in 40 days (not quite 40 now). Good luck!

Comment on No Gazelle-Like Intensity Here by Lana

Lana — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:55:43 +0000

Perhaps you could assist your mother with her budget, finding ways to help her save.
An example is transferring to a prepaid ’straight talk’ cell phone package from WalMart for only $30 a month you get 1000 any time/any where minutes & 1000 text messages.
You can even save $1200 over 2 years switching from a cell phone contract to Walmart’s $45 a month prepaid ’straight talk’ package for unlimited calls and text. It even pays you to pay the contract cancellation fee to go on to these very cheap prepaid packages.

Comment on His, Mine, Ours by Ronnie

Ronnie — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:42:17 +0000

First, I know exactly what Till Debt Do Us Part episode you’re talking about, and I agree that hubby is a d-bag. I was almost ill when I finished watching it. Thankfully, my BF agreed. Um, so I make around $50k more than BF does, and that disparity will continue or increase for the next 5 years while he finishes his medical residency, which is notoriously low-paying. For us it makes zero sense to contribute equally when I so far outearn him. We contribute to our joint fund 67/33; I put in $2k/month, he puts in $1k. The flip side is that when he finishes his residency, by projected incomes for his specialty he’ll immediately outearn me by $50-$100k, assuming yearly raises for me.

We occasionally struggle with joint finances, because he’s also of the sort where he doesn’t want to account for everything to the penny like I do. So I pick my battles. As long as our monthly savings goals are met, all bills are paid and we’ve got food, I really don’t care what we do with the rest. We have $500/month in fun money, because we can and want to. But our deal is that whatever we don’t use is immediately put into savings and can’t be carried over to the next month. This will probably change once we’re married, but right now I’ll just be anal about my personal budget and be a little more lenient on our joint, because we’re both getting what we want out of living together that way.

Sorry for the long rambling post. It’s Friday and I’m tired (thanks Lysacek!) .

Comment on His, Mine, Ours by WellHeeledBlog

WellHeeledBlog — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:37:21 +0000

That’s a really great overview of your couple-y finances – I think if the income’s split anywhere from 40/60 it’s easier to divide up the big stuff and have a pretty equitable financial arrangement. It’s great that the living situation benefits both of you romantically and financially.

Comment on His, Mine, Ours by Kathleen

Kathleen — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:58:13 +0000

Mapgirl, thanks for the insight into you and your boyfriend’s finances. I also live with my b/f and even though I currently make about $10K more than him, we split our finances down the middle. He’s also a big picture guy while I like to crunch numbers and know my finances down to the penny so I make sure all the bills get paid. It works out for now, but we’d revise our arrangement if either of us got laid off, a significant raise, or if we got married.

Comment on Nifty Way to Spend Your Tax Refund by New from the IRS! Use Your Tax Refund to Buy Savings Bonds- Financial Eyes & Ears

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:56:15 +0000

[...] something cool I learned at Mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge. Apparently you can now use your tax refund to automatically buy I-series bonds from the U.S. [...]