Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
My wife and daughter have spent the last week in New Orleans visiting her parents. They have lived down there for about 7 years due to my father in law being relocated to work in aerospace down there. If you’ve been reading the blog for awhile, you might recall that I blogged a bit about my inlaws experience through the hurricane. My mother in law
On the subject of things that don’t seem to make sense……. Kiplinger has an article about how consumer confidence is at a 4 year high. I confess. This just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Gas prices are at an all time high, interest rates are rising which could have multiple impacts on consumers (credit card rates increasing, adjustable mortgages going up etc),
They can’t vote, heck they can’t even join the military. Don’t worry though, they can start digging themselves a deep hole while they are still in high school. While I’m okay with someone under 18 learning to use credit with the help of their parents (assuming that their parents are good with money), I’m not so comfortable with credit card applications being distributed at schools
MSN article highlighting adjustable rate mortgages and rates of foreclosure. One thing that caught my eye. Rhonda took a two year adjustable rate at 7.8%? Can you say “robbed”? I’m guessing she must not have stellar credit. http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/Homefinancing
It’s been a little quiet on the blog posting front the last few days. We celebrated the Easter holiday at our house so there was plenty of preparations for that, and what has really kept me busy is that I took a new job within my company. It should be more exciting and a completely different technology than I have been working with so I’ll
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=28662 Okay. What the heck. What’s wrong with you Alex? You win the lottery and then get arrested for not paying taxes on it? Did you really need the extra tax money? I mean, I think I could live pretty well on $660,000 a year. I’d call it a nasty case of moronitis! http://services.silicon.com/itoutsourcing/0,3800004871,39158081,00.htm Outsourcing isn’t saving as much money as once thought. I take
Every once in awhile, I like to go back and find a post from the early years. Oh, okay, the early months. This post is back from August and was actually first posted on the blogger site. Unfortunately, when I converted the site here, I lost all the comments, (this post had a lot of comments). Take a quick look at the article and see
I’m amazed at what you can learn on internet forums. I first realized how much help they can be when I bought my used Seadoo and needed some help figuring out how to work on it. I found a forum that was hosted by some very knowledgeable Seadoo techs and was frequented by hundreds of Seadoo owners. There were pictures of what parts looked like,
Take a look at this article that talks about how to pay for that next family vacation. Basically, the article states that you should plan ahead a bit. If the vacation is important to you, then why not make it a priority all year long to put aside a bit of money. He also talks about potential ways to save on other things to make
I was reading a comment on My Open Wallet and it got me to thinking. What does good money management mean to you? As I’ve talked to people that have struggled with money I never realized that their definition of good money management and mine were completely different. My definition of good money management is that you have a plan, you know how much money