Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
My wife and I have been talking and she is considering a career change when she goes back to work. She has been staying at home with our daughter for almost 3 years, but we know that we want her to go back to work at some point. (not that what she’s been doing at home hasn’t been work). She currently has two bachelors degree.Â
I have a confession to make. You know all that talk a couple months ago about being tempted to buy a new truck? Well, it happened. I bought a 2006 Toyota Tacoma with pretty much every option you could get on it. It’s amazing and I have to say, I’m not having any post buying regret. I wrote a check for the entire purchase. It
This morning I was going through our investments/assets/expenses which I keep in a custom excel document that I created a few years ago. This spreadsheet includes multiple tabs, and a couple charts. I call this my Financial Dashboard. At a glance I can easily see all the figures that make up my net worth. It also shows me what my expenses are, what percentage of
Okay, along the same lines as submitting a torn up credit card application and actually getting the card is this: This guy decided to get creative on what he signed on his receipts. He started out just using a different looking signature and progressed to writing square boxes, X’s, Mariah Carey, and on and on. It’s worth a look. I have to wonder what the
About a year and a half ago, my wife and I decided to REALLY splurge and went out to dinner at the Keg restaurant near our home. The Keg has outstanding steaks and the service is great. While we were there, we noticed that they had a birthday club card to fill out. It turns out that if you fill out the card, they send
Well, this is a bit scary! If you’ve never visited http://www.cockeyed.com, you gotta do it. In one of his latest experiments, he rips up a credit card app, just like many people do, and then tapes it back together and sends it in to see if they’ll send him a new card. Sure enough, he received his credit card app in the mail at an
Well, I just read that Tivo is changing their pricing structure. This furthers my speculation that Tivo is a dying company. I’ve got Tivo. If you recall, I got my 140 hour Tivo for free. All I had to do was pay the first years subscription. Any way you slice it, this was a good deal. I fully plan to either get them to lower
I can’t help but draw a comparison between good financial decisions and good eating habits. I’m not sure which is more important. I’d have to lean towards good eating habits simply because money isn’t too valuable if you are dead. (I suppose your heirs might beg to differ with you, but you get the point) Anyway, last weekend was brutal for my goal of eating
Could this really be true? If you pay a large amount on your credit card, you set off some bells and whistles and the financial institution has to notify the government? I’m not sure if I believe this or not. Here’s the article for your reading pleasure: One other thing to note. I’ve never seen this website before and don’t know if the Scripps Howard
I am just getting hammered by spam over the last few days (on this blog). I’m glad that WordPress has the “hold comments” function. I don’t want to give those spammers any help! Most of the messages are simply a couple words. I’m not sure what these guys are doing, but I’m guessing they are trying to increase their relevance in Google searches etc. Man,