Well, I have to admit I’ve found myself second guessing my strategy of buy and hold. Of course I’m not making any rash decisions and certainly won’t be selling as the market goes down, but I have thought about a couple things. 1) Maybe I should have moved a percentage of my portfolio to cash as part of an ongoing diversification strategy 2) I definitely
Are You Kidding Me?
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=2070979 Yeah. I guess I don’t agree with Bernanke
Bury Your Relative, Or Remodel Your Kitchen?
Here’s a shocking issue. Is it a trend? Check out the link below. Here’s a quote from the article: “At first the woman claimed she couldn’t afford it, but when Wackerly pressed her, she acknowledged that there was insurance money, but that her family didn’t like the mother-in-law and hoped to use the cash to remodel their kitchen.” http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UNCLAIMED_DEAD Â
Caution! Don’t Read this Unless You Want to Spend Money!
I know I’ve mentioned it before but I’ve always been interested in how marketing affects each of us. Billions and billions of dollars are spent every year to either directly sell to us, or to figure out what we want and what a company needs to do to get us to act. I’ve been compiling a list of slogans that I remember, either as a
Do You Lose if Someone Hacks Your Brokerage Acct?
I’ve often thought about this question. Here’s a nice answer. It was nice to see that Schwab does offer a guarantee, but who knows if they’d really cover my loss due to my account being hacked. http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfinance/columns I think that their non-technical business processes are key to protecting you against someone taking your money. By sending notification to your registered address for any address changes
Saved 78% By Checking Ebay
I recently started running at the health club again. I had let my membership lapse since the club had been ratcheting up my yearly dues and I was a little annoyed about it. From a health perspective, I should have sucked it up and kept paying so that I could continue to use the gym. Well, I didn’t. I got a mailing from the club
$500 Car Payment on Minimum Wage
Glad I’m not in her predicament. I’d say Dave gave her good advice. http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50422
I Have Got to Start a 529 Plan
When reading articles like this: http://www.kirotv.com/education/9297347/detail.html it reminds me that I haven’t started a 529 plan for my daughter. I spent about a half hour trying to figure out which plan is best and also requested information on the Washington state GET program, but I’m starting to get serious about opening a Kansas based 529 plan. It has a decent rating from the people that
Cheap Table Saws R Us
About 6 years ago I bought a table top table saw. It was $129 and was pretty much the cheapest way to go. The table saw I really wanted was $450 plus and there was no way I could justify spending that much. So, I sucked it up and bought the cheapy. Add on the $40 table for it and I was up to $169.Â
Clothes Only Cost .23 Each
My wife and daughter went for a walk this morning and were gone about 20 minutes when the phone rang. My wife had taken her cel phone and was out on her walk. She asked me to drive over to where they were to check out a garage sale. I’ll confess that I normally HATE garage sales. My stubborn point of view is that we