You can see the latest carnival at Broke Grad Student: http://www.brokegradstudent.com/carnival-of-personal-finance-167-highlights-from-the-beijing-2008-olympics/
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Update on the Weight Loss Challenge
It’s week four of the weight loss contest. If you recall, I’m having somewhat of a contest with my brother in law where we set a target to lose 17 pounds each at the rate of a pound a week. If either of us weighs more than we did the previous week, we have to pay the other person $10. At the end of the
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"Found Money" Posting on Craigslist
I’ve been reading Rob Cockerham’s website for a long time. He’s done some pretty funny things over the years. If you’ve never spent any time surfing around his site, I’d highly recommend it. His latest "project" had him posting a "found money" listing on Craigslist. He was curious to see what kind of a response he’d get. He’s convinced one group was trying to pull
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What Are My Options For Retirement?
Over and over I read about various people’s plans for creating retirement income. You know the one thing that they have in common? They all have different approaches. There is no “one size fits all” approach to retirement out there. Many of us do not know what will happen after retirement, we may be fine financially, but illness can occur and the need for a philadelphia home
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Buying Real Estate In Another State
When I was younger I used to think that the best thing I could do would be to buy a second home in Arizona. Why? Because some day I want to live there in the winter (aka: Be a Snowbird). I was convinced that a key strategy to my investing and saving for the future was to lock in a low price on a place
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Shopping Around For Insurance
After 15 years of paying premiums to Allstate, I have finally started the process of shopping for a new insurance company. I can’t say I’ve been unhappy with Allstate but it’s time to see if they are truly giving me a good deal or not. A couple things have caused me to do this. First, I’ve read too many times that you should do some
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Lotto Winner Sentenced to Jail for Tax Evasion
You know how I love reading about the trials and tribulations of lottery winners. Brad Duke is the example of someone that knew how to turn his lottery winnings in to a life long investment. Unfortunately most other people aren’t that successful with their winnings. Take Rhoda Toth as an example. She won $13 million 18 years ago and has long since gambled and spent
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I.O.U.S.A
I just discovered the next movie I want to see. It’s called IOUSA and is a documentary about the massive debt we have in our country and what the long term implications are. It isn’t being released on a large scale but I was able to find some theatres near me that will be showing it. Here is the link to the official movie site:
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While Banks Hemorrhage, My Credit Union Keeps Humming Along
If you’ve been reading ELYM for any length of time you’ll know I’m a big fan of credit unions. I use one for all of my banking needs and have always been 110% happy with it. As I’ve been reading about all the drama with many commercial banks and lending institutions I started to wonder how my credit union was doing. All I needed to
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Bread Machine
About 6 years ago my wife just had to have a bread machine. We looked around for quite awhile and finally settled on a machine from Costco. The smell of fresh bread baking in the kitchen was quite a treat. Never mind that those first loaves cost us far more than just buying a loaf at the store. I think my wife had the desire
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