Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before but I agreed to be the PTA treasurer at my daughter’s school this year. So far it has been relatively uneventful. It mostly entails writing lots of checks, balancing a budget each month and reporting facts and figures during the monthly meetings. Besides writing lots of checks, I’ve also been receiving a lot of money to deposit in
It’s been a couple weeks since we killed cable and we have absolutely NO regrets. Just as we suspected, we haven’t missed it a bit. We still find plenty of things to watch on TV and we’re saving over $50 per month. Maybe I should rephrase the whole “killing cable†thing. We didn’t actually kill it completely. We kept just the local channels for $15
Another week, another free breakfast. IHOP is giving away a short stack of pancakes today from 7 am to 10 pm. There probably won’t be quite the lines that there were for the Denny’s giveaway, but you don’t get as much food either. http://www.ihoppancakeday.com/pancake-day-details.html
My wife, Kate, was born in England and moved here when she was five with her parents. She became a US citizen many years later and now has dual citizenship in the US and in the UK. It never occurred to me that there could be any benefit to having citizenship in two countries until Kate flew to England a few years ago to visit
If you are craving a burger and fries from Denny’s (Not sure if that’s possible), you can get a free burger and fries if you are one of the first 500,000 people to sign up for their Rewards program. You’ll also be entered for a chance to win 52 free Grand Slams. From what I hear, the lines at Denny’s were crazy today. I know
David over at My Two Dollars blogged about whether he thinks it’s okay to walk away from a mortgage. Originally, back in 2008, he said he didn’t think it was okay and was just wrong. Fast forward to today and he has changed his mind. He now believes, in light of all the government support the banks are receiving (and not really passing it on
I was browsing around on Craigslist and came upon this ad: BEAUTIFUL M3 White exterior / Black leather interior Dual clutch system Technology Pkg. Fully Loaded Carbon Fiber Roof Premium Sound System Navigation You can either buy it outright for $56,000 or assume my lease of $1309.10 per month for the remaining 20 months of the lease term. Residual is approx. $36,000.00 Seriously? A monthly
I finally blocked out a bit of time to take an early look at our taxes now that all of our W2’s and 1099’s have arrived. I haven’t bought the 2009 Turbotax software yet so I decided to just quickly punch all the numbers in to the Turbotax website with bogus personal information. With both my wife and I working and online income, it has
I have started using a new WordPress tool so that ELYM is optimized for viewing on Iphones and Ipod Touch’s. It actually looks pretty cool. It’s clean and gives you just the information you really want. (No ads, links etc) It does a great job of showing you how many comments an article has and loads very fast. Just one more way to view ELYM.
Everyone has different financial goals in life. For a long time it was the ambition of many people to have a million dollars by the time they retire. Unfortunately a million dollars isn’t quite what it used to be but it’s still a substantial sum of money. As I’ve continued to save and invest over the years, I’ve often thought, “hmmm, how much money should
