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Sunday Reading Congrats to Emma Edition

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

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!Major news on the personal front because Emma received a new job offer!  With the job change, [...]

Money Mailbox Friday - Never Wait For a Check Again

Friday, August 29th, 2008

I’m waiting for a check worth a good amount to be sent to my attention. I’m really not sure why I am setup for checks because I’m always anxious whenever I wait for that check to come every month. Checks are slow, provide almost no visibility of when it will come and inconvenient [...]

How Our Perception Keep Us Poor

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

As the national average of gas prices drop back to the $3.50 a gallon range, no one seems to worry about the ultra high gas price anymore.  It’s vanished from the nightly news, missing from blog articles and forgotten over lunchroom conversations.  After all, gas is not $4 a gallon anymore so no problems right?
Same [...]

Where to Roll Over My 401k

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

 

 
 
Now that I decided to roll my 401k into a traditional IRA, the next step is to figure out the company that I should roll the money into. As the funds will likely remain in the same place until I’m past 60 years old, it is a decision that I should carefully analyze. [...]

6 Neat Ways to Build Your Emergency Fund

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

 

 
 
Some of us are creative thinkers, especially when it comes to making excuses about saving for our emergency fund.  From the weak economy to falling dollar to the high gas prices, I seem to hear something new every day.  To break the trend of using our creativity to think of excuses, I challenged myself to [...]

5 Things to Reconsider (Consider) About Your (New) Job

Monday, August 25th, 2008

I have seen it time and time again.  My dad changing careers because of $50 a month, my friends switching jobs for a better pay and my old classmates telling me they demanded a higher salary or they consider quitting. Let’s face it. Money is an important part of our job and without [...]

Happy and Full Sunday

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

The past Thursday marks the first time I met some fellow bloggers face to face! One of the advertising networks hosted a gathering in my part of town in Orange County for all of us to meet and aside from all the free wine, drinks and food in beautiful Newport Beach, I got to [...]

Money Mailbox Friday - Letter from the Citations Department

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Yesterday, I received a notice from the rental car company telling me that I didn’t pay toll on one of the toll booths in Chicago, Illinois.  Didn’t pay toll?  I would never skip that and I live in Southern California!
As my blood started pumping faster and I was beginning to fill with anger, I remembered [...]

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