Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
Last night my wife and I went out to dinner. A couple months ago, I was given a $100 gift card to Morton’s steak house in Seattle. I’d never been there so we were looking forward to going. I’d heard that it was somewhat expensive but figured the $100 would get us a decent meal. We arrived downtown about 5:45 and pulled up to the
We are thinking about taking a trip to Disneyland in March. I’ve looked around and the best deal I seem to be able to find is directly through Alaskaair.com. Total price: $1200 (includes airfare, hotel, park tickets, airport shuttle, taxes). When looking, I noticed that what the airlines seem to do is list ridiculous prices for hotels in their packages. While Alaska has “kids fly
I’ve often wondered what it would be like to float through my existence on this planet with complete and total ignorance. I wouldn’t know enough to worry about retirement. I’d simply spend to exist and not worry about what awaited me in the future. If I didn’t know any better, I wouldn’t worry about whether I’m saving enough. I also wouldn’t worry about losing my
I was surfing around on Fat Wallet and came across this post in the forum: “My gf has 80,000 in school loans (masters degree in Italian) and 12,000 in credit card debt. I just found this out today. We have been going out for around 8 months and all seemed great till now. My credit is pretty good, and I am wondering what the long
Arrrgggghhh I like to check my online visa statement every now and then when I log in to my credit union. While looking at it today, I noticed that I received a $41 charge from Vonage. If you recall, I canceled my Vonage account awhile back after I had been a customer for 13 months. When I called to cancel, the CR rep told me
Well, as many of you might know, I’ve been spending an embarrassing amount of time mulling over the purchase of a new car. Not because we REALLY need one, but rather because I got a wild hair in the very southern region of my back. I had been secretly searching through all the online used car aggregators (Traderonline, Dealernet, cars.com etc) looking to see what
The more time I spend browsing through all of the great personal finance blogs out here, the more I think about how it’s just too bad that so many people in the U.S. (and elsewhere for that matter), are so stressed out about their finances and could really benefit from reading these blogs. It’s too bad that they don’t take any interest in personal finance.
I’ve got the holiday spirit. Mostly because my daughter is getting in to Christmas for the first time. She is so excited that Santa is going to come to her house. I’m off work now until after the first of the year and am just spending time at home with my wife and daughter. I definitely feel very fortunate. The one drawback to the Christmas
I read an arcticle in a small local paper here titled, “Cashing an Empty Paycheck”. The article talked all about payday loans in Washington state. They highlighted a person named Sonia who would write a post dated check for $795 to receive $700 in cash. It turns out that this is the maximum amount of money that someone can get from a payday loan company.
Okay. What the heck was I thinking? If I’d really wanted this truck, I should have posted the question to a “Get Some More Debt” blog. But no. Einstein here posted the question to a community of personal finance folks. The outcome, via comments, shouldn’t surprise me. Thanks to everyone who posted. I guess I knew the right answer but was hoping that, if I