Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
I don’t know why I do it to myself. I think I’m subscribing to the wrong magazines. I was so excited to get 4 years of Road and Track for something like $12 on Ebay. Four years!! That was a bargain, or at least it seemed so at the time. You see, I’ve always loved cars. The only problem is now I see every car
I keep reading articles about ARM’s. Man. As interest rates climb, I can’t help but think that many, many people are going to find themselves in trouble. Even if they aren’t in trouble, they will most likely be seeing more and more of their income go towards mortgage interest. With inflationary fears floating around, it isn’t hard to imagine rates going even higher. I’m eating
This is an article that I read a couple years ago. What’s interesting is that the numbers they point out are actually worse now. I noticed that they had the savings rate at about 2% in 2004. Now it’s a negative number. I believe that people’s debt load might have increased too. Anyway, check out the article. It’s great!! http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0816/p14s01-wmgn.html Here’s a paragraph from the
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
It wasn’t long ago that I was sitting in amazement at the price of housing in my neighborhood and I’ll admit I was a bit giddy. Sure, I knew the party could end and kind of expected it would due to interest rates rising and other economic factors. Well, the party appears to be over. For the last couple years, I’ve had some saved housing
I must admit I was thoroughly entertained by this blog posting that is complete with audio files of the voicemails this guy left when trying to get his date to cover her share of the restaurant bill after he realized she wasn’t interested in him. Oh, and did I mention he is supposedly the CEO of a company? Yeah. You have got to read through
Amazingly I was able to call my cable company and get them to drop the price of my broadband again. I have done this twice before. What I normally do is call them, ask them for a lower speed connection that costs less and then tell them about how my phone company is offering a 1.5mbps service for half as much. They usually offer to
Check out this blog. As if there weren’t already over a million reasons not to cheat on your wife, here’s just one more. This lady started a blog awhile back and recently found out her husband is cheating on her with her best friend. It’s actually pretty interesting to read the blog from the beginning (Goes back to June). Check out the sign she posted
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……