Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
I was over reading a great article at Lazy Man and Money about his trip to the Personal Finance Blog Conference in Chicago and scrolled down to the video below of Ramit Sethi’s spoof on all those frugality tips you hear about. (You know, the latte factor etc). Ramit is no fan of those tips and made a parody video about them. I literally laughed
I read an article today about Danny Kofke. He’s the author of the book: A Simple Book of Financial Wisdom, available at Amazon for $12. In the article, Danny talks about how he and his family live on $40,000 per year. There really wasn’t any new information or advice on how he does it but it’s definitely worth reading. A few things caught my eye
Have you seen the 99 percent blog? Regardless of whether you think the banks are part of the problem or if each person is responsible for their own situations, it’s still interesting to see what people are saying. People write down on a piece of paper what their situation is (and they are pretty much all dire situations) and then take a picture of themselves
I was going to take the time to put up a post about what it takes to change banks but Nickel over @ Fivecentnickel.com did a great job! He takes you through, step by step. It’s really not hard at all. You can get your new accounts set up with a new institution (I highly recommend a credit union), and then slowly transition everything over.
I hate spending money on basic necessities like toiletries. It’s just one of those things that you have to do though. As I’m getting older, I’m finding the list of “basic necessities” is getting longer. I have a few different medical conditions that have developed over the last 10 years or so that require specialized “necessities”. I struggle with a very large number of allergies.
I don’t know which side of the fence you sit on when it comes to CEO’s compensation levels. I happen to think most CEO’s are overpaid. Throw as many arrows as you’d like at me but I think a lot of CEO’s could learn a lot from Costco CEO Jim Sinegal. He makes a very good living but he also “get’s it”. Anyway, Business Insider
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Apple has announced the date to introduce the world to their new Iphone. I’m embarrassed to say that I’m looking forward to seeing what they are bringing to the market. I’m a current Iphone 4 user and really like it, although I’m convinced I’d equally like an Android phone if that’s what I had started
Starting in 2012, Bank of America is going to start charging $5 per month as a debit card fee. I can’t imagine paying a monthly fee to use a debit card. Just another example of why I’m very happy to have my money at a credit union. There are no fees and I’m getting paid interest every month. http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/29/pf/bank_of_america_debit_fee/index.htm?iid=HP_MPM
Well, I can honestly tell you that being completely and utterly hacked for the first time sucks! I’ve lost a ton of data and am still working at how to retrieve the posts. I’m hoping to figure out how to export them out of my MySQL database and then import them to this new blog instance but we’ll see how it goes. Stay tuned for
Sorry for the lack of updates. I’m having some trouble with the WordPress admin functions (pages are completely blank so I can’t do anything). I’ve been locked out for awhile and am still trying to fix it. I just found that I am able to access the admin functions via the WordPress mobile app so was able to put up this short post.
