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Repainted my car - front lip today but was it the right choice?

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

If this is your first time visiting, check out the story behind this blog. Otherwise, please join the others by subscribing to my RSS feed or get updates via email so you don’t miss any personal finance articles!Last year sometime, I made a fast U-turn and scratched the front lip of my car. [...]

Money in Movies: Pursuit of Happiness

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

I?? back from my trip! I must say that I?? very tired right now but I saw Pursuit of Happiness on the plane and I thought it was a very good movie.
This is an inspiration movie based on a true story about Chris Gardner (played by Will Smith) that has struggled to have enough [...]

Automatic Millionaire - The Latte Factor - Becoming an Automatic Millionaire on Just a Few Dollars a Day Chapter Summary

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

There are many helpful action steps at the end of each chapter of the Automatic Millionaire (for more background info about this book, click here). Therefore, I plan to list them out here chapter by chapter in the coming days and discuss with you each step in more details in hopes that we can all [...]

Book review: The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach

Friday, April 27th, 2007

My current trip to Japan/Singapore gave me a chance to read a book during the long flight. It is about ways to become rich (what other topic did you think the book would be since I write a personal finance blog?) so I figured I will share a book review with you.
The [...]

I got my suit back and saved $87.32 worth of money!

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

In the beginning of February, I came to Singapore for the first time ever during a business trip. With my month-old suit and all, I went to some sales calls which went pretty well. However, when I got back, I realized that I forgot to bring back my suit! I was pretty upset because of [...]

Where to cut down on your spending to maximize savings

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

We have heard these money saving tips countless times. Stop eating out, make your coffee at home, eliminate as much of the wasted expenditures as possible. However, for many of us, not getting that Starbucks coffee is just enough to drive us nuts. What could these people do?
You can try to cut [...]

Easily calculate your stock portfolio real rate of return

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

For those of us that are thinking of doing your own investing, the comparison between rate of return of the “do-it-yourself” portfolio vs the index fund that you would have bought with the same amount of money is crucial. When I first started investing, I would think that the rate of return would be [...]

Does saving money depend on your friends?

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

I?? on a business trip in Japan right now as I mentioned on my last post. The first night after my boss and I arrived, we met one of his friends who happen to be the president of a division in Toshiba named Hiro. Now, Hiro took us to a shabu-shabu restaurant and although the [...]

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