Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
Becoming financially fit can be challenging. But consider this: Marathoners get up early on the weekends and run multiple miles, sometimes in the rain, skipping the breakfast buffet and Bloody Marys. Makes reaching financial fitness sound totally doable, doesn’t it? So in honor of the Seattle Marathon today, we offer 26.2 tips that work well both for running and personal finance See the whole article
Every now and then I wonder if I’m too much of a tightwad. I’ll confess that there are a few things I do to try to keep our costs down. In no particular order: Religiously turn off the lights (and usually turn on the CFL bulbs instead of regular light bulbs (We have some of each in the house due to preferences) Try to go
I’ve often noticed that children mimic their parents in many, many ways. I have to really be careful because my three year old daughter repeats almost everything I say. I’m still not sure how we are going to get her to stop saying “fart”. Of course, I slipped up and said it months ago, and she has never forgotten it. Every few days, I have
It’s week three of the new schedule at our house. Things have been going well, but I’ve been expecting that sooner or later I’d need to take a sick day to stay home with our daughter. Today was the day. It just doesn’t make sense for my wife to stay home with her at this point. She is only “temping” and doesn’t get any paid
I left a comment over at Jonathon’s MyMoneyBlog and decided it was really worthy of a post on my blog. Since I work in IT, I’m pretty familiar with server loads and things of that nature. Most IT architectures I’ve seen, usually count on a percentage of Users accessing the server at any one time. In the case of web servers, that means you expect
I received my new access code for EmigrantDirect’s new site that will be launching later this month. I noticed that they said they would be raising their rate to 5.15% as of July 28th. I have got to get more money moved in to this account.  I locked up a bunch in a 3 month CD and the CD calculator says that it’s not worth removing
A lot of the standard tips, but there were a few that you don’t always see: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SomeTipsForSavingMoney.aspx Scott is a techy but blogs about non-technical stuff once in awhile. I’m a fan of his product reviews more than anything. When he starts blogging about developer code, my eyes tend to strain……
When my wife and I got married, we talked about having kids and what we would do. I would always say, “I think you should go back to work after we have a child” and she would always say, “Maybe I should be a stay at home mom”. We would talk about it every now and then but we pretty much kept the same points
I have to admit I wasn’t as impressed with the latest “Millionaire in the Making” series on CNNMoney. I do think I need to cut these folks some slack because they are doing better than a lot of people. I think that changing careers in their 40’s and not coming to the realization that saving/investing was so critical when they were young probably plays in to
If you haven’t noticed, over the last few months I’ve pretty much kept clam about my financial state. I took down all of my financial details because a few of my friends found my blog. Me, being the rocket scientist that I am, didn’t do a very good job of creating an anonymous name. Had I made up a completely new name for myself when