I’ve mentioned the idea about writing a personal finance book to a couple people, but I thought I’d get some feedback from all of you. I’ve become a bit of a personal finance nut over the past year and it took me a while to figure out what was relevant to me as a 20-something [...]
Tagged with: investing, personal finance, retirement, writing
Posted under: Money Stuff
I left this comment on the Your Money Relationship site in response to this post and the Mrs. A comments, Do You Still Balance Your Checkbook? I Sure Don’t
I’m one of the “young’uns” Mrs. A is referring to. I was balancing my checkbook right out of high school while I was working part-time during college, [...]
Tagged with: banking, personal finance
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July is a huge reminder about just how much money we spend on automobile transportation. The planets seem to align when insurance and registration for both of us come in at about the same time. This year I got the added joy of renewing my drivers license and smogging the RSX for the first time [...]
Tagged with: bikes, cars, commute, personal finance
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I despise PayPal because monopolies are bad for the consumer. PayPal has become the defacto method of sending money across the Internet and paying for eBay auctions. I just sold an extra CPU on eBay for $60 and PayPal took their $2 cut (don’t get me started on the $5.41 eBay got). Google Checkout was [...]
Tagged with: paypal, personal finance
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I’ve been blabbing on about finances for a little bit now and up to this point I haven’t been very aggressive about saving for retirement. Saving for retirement is good and dandy, but right now is the most important time for us to put away money (if you are wondering why see this post on [...]
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Posted under: Money Stuff