I, like most people, do not check my monthly bills that are on auto pay unless something goes wrong. So I am sure you can imagine my surprise when I was checking out one of the oldest personal finance blogs, My Money Blog, and I learned something about my specific Sprint Bill. In the post…
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Over the past 13 and a half months we have a couple events for my son that resulted in cash gifts, specifically, we had his actual birth, Christening and his First Birthday. At each of those events we received very generous gifts from his aunts, uncles, grandparents, friends and pseudo uncles and aunts. Every time…
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I can’t believe it has been about a year since I started tracking my net worth. I resisted the idea of doing so since the beginning of this blog because of two reasons. One, I didn’t believe it would help me with my long term goal of increasing my net worth, and two, I felt…
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A couple of days ago I “graded” myself as to how I did for my 2011 Goals and Objectives and with only a couple days left in 2011 it is about time to lay it on the line for what I expect for myself in 2012. One of the main reasons I started this blog…
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I read an inspiring post on Financial Samurai titled, “Credit Card Enlightenment: Track Your Expenses Wisely” that made me want to get a handle on monthly expenditures, but as explained before I feel like I started in the wrong month, but oh well! Unlike my net worth updates, I am going to provide exact dollars…
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I can’t believe it has been almost a year since I published my goals and objectives for 2011 (December 31, 2011 at 12:45am) and as we come to the end of the year I thought it be about time to review that post and see how I did. I have done this for the past:…
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