Archive for the ‘Financial stuff’ Category
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Over at MyMoneyBlog, Jonathan did a post on delivering pizza to make extra money. Delivering pizza is often mentioned as a good side job to make extra money. Information about the job isn't always accurate though. Since I currently earn most of my money from delivering pizza I'm going to ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Many, if not most, PF bloggers consider net worth to be the most important financial measurement. It certainly is the most common. This makes sense because it is pretty easy to figure. Just subtract your liabilities from your assets and you have your net worth. For the most part it ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The simplified formula for personal financial success is to spend less than you earn and invest the rest. Blogs like mine concentrate on the spend less part but don't say much about the earning part. This makes sense since this is a frugality blog but I think the earning part ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
There are a bunch of promotions offering 10% bonuses for using your economic stimulus check to fund a gift card with a retailer. Retailers offering the promotions include Kroger, Radio Shack, Supervalu, Sears, K-Mart, Home Depot, and Staples. If the supermarket names don't sound familiar to you check the supermarket ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I disclose my income and expenses each month on this blog. There are many bloggers who disclose their online income,alternative income or passive income but there aren't many that dispose their total income. LuLuGal at HowISaveMoney.net is disclosing her income and finances for this month at least but I don't ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
While reading a post at another PF blog (sorry, I can't remember which one or I'd give them credit) I read about the site MissingMoney.com which searches the databases of most states to find whether they have your unclaimed property. I've done this search before of my home state's database ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
This doesn't have much chance of happening but it should. The federal gas tax has been at 18.4 cents since 1993 when the price of gas was about $1 a gallon. Now that gas is over $3 a gallon the gas tax is a much smaller percentage of the price. ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
In my Wills and Estates class the other day I learned of a website called Measuring Worth.com. This site lets you measure the historical worth of a dollar. A dollar from my birth year is worth from $5.01 to $16.63 today depending on what measure you use. ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
I was surprised to receive information on how to enroll in my employer's 401k earlier this week. I assumed I wouldn't be eligible to enroll since I'm not actively working there currently. The website did allow me to enroll though. The plan matches 100% for the first 3% contributed and ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Using the Saver’s Credit you may be able to take the credit of up to $1,000 (up to $2,000 if filing jointly) if you make eligible contributions to a qualified IRA, 401(k) and certain other retirement plans. Here is a table showing what your credit would be depending on your ...
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