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Mint.com to Add Budgeting to money tracking
2007-10-18 13:39:00 Last night I received a comment from Jason Putorti, the Lead Designer of Mint .com, on my comparison of Mint Vs. Mvelopes. It seems that Mint is going to be releasing some budgeting functionality within the next few days. From what Jason hinted at in the comment, it sounds like you will be able to assign a ... More About: Reviews , Personal Finance , Money , Tracking
Why getting out of debt sucks?
2007-10-17 13:40:00 As my fiancee and I sat down last night to take a look at our budget, we both became a little discouraged. My roommate is moving out next month, which will crunch our cashflow a bit. On top of that, by the time we pay all of our bills and even put a few dollars ... More About: Personal Finance , Debt , Young Money , Sucks
Why getting out of debt sucks?
2007-10-17 13:40:00 As my fiancee and I sat down last night to take a look at our budget, we both became a little discouraged. My roommate is moving out next month, which will crunch our cashflow a bit. On top of that, by the time we pay all of our bills and even put a few dollars ... More About: Personal Finance , Debt , Young Money , Sucks
Why do people Refinance their Mortgages?
2007-10-16 14:04:00 With Foreclosures rising, mortgage refinancing has become a hot topic of late. The basic idea behind refinancing your mortgage has one of three historical motives: Refinance to pull ‘equity’ out of their home. If your house could sell for $250,000 and you owe $60,000 you could refinance your loan to say, $100,000 and pull $40,000 of equity ... More About: People , Real Estate , Home , Guides , Mortgage
Why do people Refinance their Mortgages?
2007-10-16 14:04:00 With Foreclosures rising, mortgage refinancing has become a hot topic of late. The basic idea behind refinancing your mortgage has one of three historical motives: Refinance to pull ‘equity’ out of their home. If your house could sell for $250,000 and you owe $60,000 you could refinance your loan to say, $100,000 and pull $40,000 of equity ... More About: People , Real Estate , Home , Guides , Mortgage
Want to make $20 million ? To the moon!
2007-10-15 13:24:00 The X-Prize foundation, which awarded $10 million to Richard Branson for launching an orbital shuttle 100 km in the air, has teamed up with Google to up the ante. The Google Lunar X Prize was announced recently, with Google teaming up with the X-Prize foundation to double the prizes and up the stakes. The new Prize: $20 million ... More About: News , Money , Moon , Make , Million
Get Paid for Fantasy Stock Picking
2007-10-12 13:28:00 Yesterday I found a new Website that is a must have for any of you stock nuts like me out there. The name of the site is The UpDown and as my fiancee says “Oh, it’s like MySpace plus Digg for Stock Nerds”. While not exactly true, I think that’s a good starting point. The Thesis ... More About: Reviews , Personal Finance , Investment , Fantasy
Barnes and Noble Online Promotional Code
2007-10-11 13:58:00 Just got an e-mail from Barnes and Noble . They gave me a bonus code for 15% off any one item. The code is only good for the first person to use it so the first person to leave a comment and fill out the {e-mail} box on the contact info will have this little coupon deposited ... More About: Freebies , Code , Online
Alternative Income: Squidoo Earnings Report Oct 07
2007-10-11 13:23:00 Well, it’s that time of the month again: Squidoo Payday! As of October 10th: 134 Published lenses $34.xx in Adsense from last month Approx. $200 from affiliates last month For full details check out Captain Squid’s Report . Alternative Income , captain squid, payout, squidoo More About: Earnings
Mvelopes Vs. Mint.com - Choosing Budgeting Software
2007-10-10 13:49:00 I’ve just returned from a long weekend at the family farm and it’s time to get back to business.. or budget as the case may be. In response to Kinney’s Comment asking for a comparison of Mvelopes and Mint , here you are: (See, I do listen once in a while ) Learning from the Past vs. ... More About: Software , Reviews , Budgeting
Do you Prioritize your Money Well? 3 Power Tools
2007-10-04 14:00:00 I think we can all agree that this guy may need to re-assess his priorities with money. But what do you do when it’s not so easy? My money always has some need or want clamoring for it as soon as it hits the bank account. Just like anyone else, I obviously want to spend it on ... More About: Power , Tools , Personal Finance , Money , Tips and Tricks
Island Girl?s Money Joins Finance Bloggers
2007-10-03 13:45:00 My fiancee has decided to enter the world of personal finance blogging as well. (Yea, we’ve been busy lately.) She has begun her journey over on Island Girl ’s Money . She thinks she can do a better job than I because I talk about some reasonably technical topics that a lot of people don’t necessarily want to ... More About: Site News , Personal Finance , Finance
Zecco Review: Zecco Reduces Free Trades
2007-10-02 13:36:00 I received an e-mail yesterday regarding my Zecco Account. Apparently Zecco has decided to reduce their free trades from 40/month to 10/month. In Addition, in order to get the free trades you have to maintain a balance of $2500 or more. This applies to new accounts immediately and all accounts that were active on October ... More About: Review , Free , Free Trade
Mvelopes Review Part 1: Online Budgeting Anniversary
2007-10-01 14:05:00 As I was going through my Mvelopes account this weekend while I was preparing my Net Worth Update I noticed that I’ve been using Mvelopes for a year now. I thought it would be a good time to go back and give Mvelopes a fair review since they have released many new features and their ... More About: Reviews , Personal Finance , Anniversary , Review , Online
Debt Monster Update: Sept 2007
2007-10-01 02:51:00 Ok, I sat down today to run the progress on my war against the evil Debt Monster . Here’s the damage: Assets: + 0.98% This is mainly due to an advance in the market over the last two weeks coupled with us rebuilding our cash reserves from accidentally double paying our power bill this month (I know, I know but ... More About: Personal Finance , Update , Net worth
Free Dollar Friday: Introducing Captain Squid
2007-09-28 13:49:00 Since this whole Squid oo Thing is becoming more and more of a big deal, I’ve decided to move my discussions of Squidoo off to another blog in order to not dilute the already broad focus of this one any further. But first, Kinney left a comment on the Monopoly Credit story from last week, earning a ... More About: Dollar , Free , Friday
Chipping away at the Debt Monster
2007-09-27 13:25:00 As I was talking to my Fiancee last night, she said that we will be able to pay back almost double the amount we were able to put back in September towards debt. This is very awesome. What’s more impressive is that this month has been the month of the nightmare bill pay. When we combined ... More About: Personal Finance , Credit , Income , Net worth , Debt
Top 5 Free Stock Research Sites
2007-09-26 13:58:00 Not all Stock Research Sites were created equal. Or were they?… Lets take a look at the five top sites on the internet for doing free stock research and see how they stack up: Yahoo! Finance - The ‘Grandaddy’ of free stock research. Virtually everyone I know that researches stocks for fun or to invest has ... More About: Money , Investment , Stock Research , Free
Someone Please Tell UAW There is No Free Lunch
2007-09-25 13:38:00 In case some of you haven’t heard yet, the UAW (United Auto Workers) have gone on strike for the first time in 37 years. Their biggest concern according to union leaders? Job Security. Read that again. These guys just walked out on their jobs because they somehow think in their misguided view of reality that leaving your ... More About: News , Business , Economy , Lunch , Free
Ebay Auction Arbitrage: A learning Process
2007-09-24 13:36:00 As my fiancee has been moving into more freelance work, we have begun renewing our activity in selling on eBay. This has included the opening of an eBay Store, the details of which I will probably get into at a later time. I have an interesting way of shopping for inventory that I think is a ... More About: Auction , Ebay , Income , Learning , Antiques
Newsvine Earnings Report: Sept 2007
2007-09-24 04:00:00 I keep forgetting about Newsvine except when I’m really in the mood to go browsing for news topics. I was nosing around today and noticed that the earnings for this month have been delivered. Drumroll please…….. $1.31 This brings the grand total up to $2.13 Nothing very impressive, but I must say that it’s kind of ... More About: Report , Earnings , Sept , Earning
The Importance of Having Earnest -Free Dollar Friday
2007-09-21 13:58:00 First off, congratulations are in order for Lulu who provided last weeks suggestion. I chose to go in a slightly different direction, but she did get a link in my blogroll and I added a dollar to the Kiva Pot in her name. I’ve got a few goodies and niblets for everyone this morning. BlogRush was released ... More About: News , Personal Finance , Money , Freebies , Dollar
A Beginner?s Guide to Budgeting
2007-09-21 03:33:00 My fiancee just made an absolutely fantastic guide to Budgeting . Instead of repeating what she wrote (she’s a much better writer than I ) I’ll post some tasty excerpts here. Here are the Major Steps to Becoming Debt Free: Examine Your Expenses Closely Look at Your Income Establish a Disciplined - but realistic - Budget Stick to the Budget Build a ... More About: Personal Finance , Tips and Tricks , Beginner , Guide
Personal Finance Paradox
2007-09-20 13:43:00 After reading Trent’s excellent post over on the Simple Dollar about earnings vs. frugality I was inspired to throw my $0.02 into the ring. Personal Finance is your money. That breaks down pretty simply into money going in and money going out. Let’s call that money income and expenses, just for fun. What happens when you reduce ... More About: Business , Personal Finance , Paradox
Beta Tester Review of Mint.com
2007-09-19 13:38:00 I have had the privilege to beta test a new site called Mint over the last couple of weeks and I can say that it’s nothing short of Amazing. Everything Mvelopes doesn’t do, Mint does. I’ll write a comparison article for the two platforms later so let’s talk about Mint right now. Mint is a personal ... More About: Tools , Reviews , Money , Review , Beta
Is Dave Ramsey the Anti-Christ?
2007-09-18 13:43:00 There was an e-mail on Dave Ramsey ’s Show yesterday that just had me shaking my head. ‘Anne’ wrote in to say that Dave Ramsey was the Anti -Christ . Why? Because he uses the term ‘Cash is King’ and Anne takes that literally to mean that Dave places money before his God. Ordinarily, when someone calls people the ...
ING Direct Review - Wrap Up
2007-09-18 04:17:00 In the first part of my ING Dire ct Review we covered the account opening process. My initial deposit cleared within two days and began earning interest. As soon as my initial deposit cleared, my $25 sign up bonus also cleared. The only negative I’ve found is that my initial deposit can’t be withdrawn for 10 days. ... More About: Reviews , Personal Finance
Taking on the Debt Monster
2007-09-17 13:32:00 Being recently engaged, my Fiancee and I have begun to get our acts together about our debts and how we are going to handle them. I have delayed writing about it up to this point because it took us this long to actually begin to start moving in the right direction. I’m going to Break this ... More About: Personal Finance , Credit , Net worth , Debt , Monster
Grumpstump gets a facelift
2007-09-14 13:32:00 I went a little crazy this week and decided to change the layout of the Grumpstump. This came after I was blogging around the other day and I saw that John Chow had a new site design as well as Shoemoney. I decided to look around and see if there where any themes out there ... More About: Site News , Facelift
The World Energy Problem Has Been Solved?.
More articles from this author:2007-09-12 13:44:00 A Scientist in Erie Pennsylvania has announced that he has figured out a way to make Salt Water Burn. This is not Cold Fusion, but the use of radio waves to disrupt the hydrogen bonding in the water and allow it to burn at temperatures of up to 3,000 F. So, Mr. Kanzius said, he put ... More About: News , World , Energy , The World , Problem 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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