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Sex? Money? What do you fight about more?
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Free money? What shall we do?
I’ve gotten a few emails and chatted this up somewhat ad nauseum with friends about the money coming our way from Bush’s economic stimulus plan. *sigh* Let’s be real here folks. We are in a recession. However, remain optimistic and protect yourselves. If you get an extra check from Uncle [...]
Do You Need a Financial Advisor?
It’s the new year and hopefully you’re giving careful thought as to your financial goals for 2008. Are you planning to save for a new car? Contribute fully to a retirement fund? Save towards an emergency fund? If you are, then you should consider meeting with a financial advisor.
Retirement
Will you [...]
Eating Junk is Expensive!!
Eating junk now leads to chronic illnesses later which means trips to the doctor, time off work which then means losing wages if you end up exhausting sick leave. This leads to stress about missing work due to illness which then leads to lower productivity which leads to sleepless nights which begins the cycle [...]
2008 Financial Goals
Ive struggled with this for a few days now and I’m still figuring it out. Every book I’ve read and Podcast I listened to all say to write it down. So this is what I’m doing. I need to be accountable in 2008 so this is my plan starting in February. [...]
“Mint Addiction”
I signed up with Mint.com in September but didn’t fiddle too much with it until a few days ago. This is due to their system not being able to access our bank account because of the security prompts. Im not sure when it was fixed but I’d sent in a ticket and [...]
ACORN changes
I talked with our former ACORN representative today to get up to date information on how the housing crunch has affected their program. Prior to the recent sub prime issues ACORN had a pretty decent program, here are the details in a snapshot:
Now the program has been stripped to:
3% down
620 credit score (Wasn’t credit [...]
Women and Money: What does it mean to you?
Growing up my dad always drilled into me that I value money and money does not value me. Now that I am older, I see the wisdom in his words. Sure, Uncle Sam puts a value on me based on my income and net worth but at the core of who I am, I make [...]
The Things We Do for Money: Mystery Shopping
I am not built for the grind that is the 9-5. I simply am not, and ever since discovering this little fact about myself I’ve thought of countless ways maintain autonomy regarding my time and schedule when it comes to a job. This is especially due to being in graduate school and [...]
