Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
You know, I’ve got a lot of insurance. I’ve got auto insurance, homeowners insurance and life insurance. While that seems like a lot of insurance, I don’t have earthquake insurance. For those of you living in the midwest, you probably are saying to yourself, “yeah, so what”. Well, as much as I’d like to say that too, I have to face the fact that we
http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/17/commentary/everyday/sahadi Signs that you have too much money. Okay, I know I don’t have this problem. Who the hell are they writing these for anyway? http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/13/retirement/updegrave_money_0602 3 rules for a happy retirement. (Not that great of a piece, but what the heck. I was already on the site.) Further discussion and information about the IBM saga of getting rid of their pensions. They’ll be matching
One of the benefits to having grown up around cars and working in our family auto parts business for many years is the ability to work on my own cars when I choose to. Well, today I had to put new brakes on my Toyota truck. I’ve known that it was coming and planned ahead. First, I called around to get prices for a brake
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
http://www.slate.com/id/2134007/?nav=tap3 Okay, I just added this one late, but it is worth the wait. I think it’s a decent article. I agree with some of what he says, and struggle with other parts. Yes, the economy is changing. Yes, there have always been hardships to deal with as you start your careers, but I liked the end of the article. For all the complaining that
Now, this article was a bit shocking to me, even though I’ve heard many of the statistics before. I knew that a lot of people don’t have a good understanding of how to build wealth over time, but 21% of the population thinking the easiest way to do it is by winning the lottery? And it’s higher depending on which demographic you look at. What
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