Monthly Archives: September, 2005
Simple Debt Reduction Strategies
Here are my simple debt reduction strategies: Gather ALL of your debt information. (This can include your mortgage, or not, depending on if you want to pay it off early or not.) List TOTAL AMOUNTS OWED for each account. List FINANCE RATE next to each account. Example Account Balance Rate Auto Loan 15000 6.00% Visa [...]
PERSONAL Finance
I was thinking about how many years I have been an “active” member of the American workforce. I am 30 years old now, and I started my first “paying” job when I was 15. So, I have worked, at a job, for 1/2 of my life. Now, for the first 14 1/2 years of that [...]
Cool Tools
Here are 2 new, cool tools that I just found today. I thought you might like them. First off, Coinstar is now offering Amazon gift cards when you cash your change in. If you do not get a gift card, you pay an 8% fee. If you get a gift card, you pay no fee. [...]
Real Food IS Expensive
Okay, this might not come as a shocker to most, but to a big-boy like me, who likes to eat junk, I realized today that “real” food can be very, very expensive. Wow. Fresh fruits and veggies can cost more than frozen or packaged, and healthy breads cost 2 or 3 times more than plain [...]
Open Letter to ABC Sports
Alright, I know that this is a personal finance blog…but I need to get this off my chest. I am a “huge” football fan, but I was sickened by the opening of Monday Night Football tonight. So mad, in fact, that I emailed the following letter to both abc and to espn. I post it [...]