Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
I saw this post on Fatwallet. The poster tends to make the point that people are eating out based on any sort of economic consideration. Check out the original post to see some of the other responses. Here’s the initial post: ———- “I’m surprised that, on a site devoted to financial prudence, more people haven’t savaged the notion that it is consistent with the ideals
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=1803117 Workers have retirement “overconfidence”. There are some great statistics in this article. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500 Check out the most profitable companies in the U.S. Probably not a huge surprise that the top companies are mostly energy and financial companies. http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/31/pf/saver_parker/index.htm Extreme savers. Meet the Parkers. They are living well below their income level and, in fact, save her entire paycheck each month. http://biz.yahoo.com/special/realestateapril06_article1.html Where are housing
If I ever have ridiculous sums of money, I think you’ll find me on a tour like this:
One thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn more about stocks. I have a friend of mine who damn near seems like Warren Buffet. He learned his skills from a family member and has shown me some amazing stocks. I’m not someone who just wants the latest stock “tip”, rather, I’d prefer to understand how to find the stock myself. So, over a
My wife and I have been talking and she is considering a career change when she goes back to work. She has been staying at home with our daughter for almost 3 years, but we know that we want her to go back to work at some point. (not that what she’s been doing at home hasn’t been work). She currently has two bachelors degree.Â
I have a confession to make. You know all that talk a couple months ago about being tempted to buy a new truck? Well, it happened. I bought a 2006 Toyota Tacoma with pretty much every option you could get on it. It’s amazing and I have to say, I’m not having any post buying regret. I wrote a check for the entire purchase. It
This morning I was going through our investments/assets/expenses which I keep in a custom excel document that I created a few years ago. This spreadsheet includes multiple tabs, and a couple charts. I call this my Financial Dashboard. At a glance I can easily see all the figures that make up my net worth. It also shows me what my expenses are, what percentage of
Okay, along the same lines as submitting a torn up credit card application and actually getting the card is this: This guy decided to get creative on what he signed on his receipts. He started out just using a different looking signature and progressed to writing square boxes, X’s, Mariah Carey, and on and on. It’s worth a look. I have to wonder what the
About a year and a half ago, my wife and I decided to REALLY splurge and went out to dinner at the Keg restaurant near our home. The Keg has outstanding steaks and the service is great. While we were there, we noticed that they had a birthday club card to fill out. It turns out that if you fill out the card, they send
Well, this is a bit scary! If you’ve never visited http://www.cockeyed.com, you gotta do it. In one of his latest experiments, he rips up a credit card app, just like many people do, and then tapes it back together and sends it in to see if they’ll send him a new card. Sure enough, he received his credit card app in the mail at an