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October 2010

Net Worth Update: $181,641.37 (up $13 Gs)

October 7, 2010

Back in action, baby. The stock markets returned to lift up the world’s investments! So it had absolutely nothing to do with me actually doing GOOD! haha… Okay, well that’s a little bit of a lie, but as you can see in that graph to the left, the bulk of this extra $13Gs came from [...]

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Guy’s house burns down because he didn’t pay $75 fee!!!

October 6, 2010
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(WARNING: I am extremely pissed off right now) Where the F*ck is common decency? What if this was your mother’s home burning down?!  This story fires me up beyond belief (no pun intended)…  In a nut shell, a homeowner didn’t pay the $75 yearly fee to have access to the fire service, so when he [...]

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I Don’t Dress Like a Bum, Mom.

October 5, 2010

Anytime I tell people I’m a personal finance blogger, they get this look of shock on their face. Not because they don’t know what blogging is (which as many of you know is probably a good 75% of people out there), but because I don’t dress all financial-like. In fact, as my mother likes to [...]

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Social Security & My Life-Time Earnings!

October 4, 2010

I love getting these Social Security Statements in the mail! They always show how much you’re worth when you’re old and wrinkly ;) Haha… actually, I like to see how much my income fluctuates between the years. These statements track alllll your (reported) earnings since you’ve started working. Or at least mine does since I’m [...]

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Tip #397: Hide your money from yourself

October 1, 2010

This is a tip that I never really thought worked, but starting to realize its benefits. I first read about it in my boy Alan Corey’s book , A Million Bucks by 30, and for whatever reason it was the one main thing that stuck in my mind :)  That, and realizing I’d never hit [...]

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Weekly Love: Engineers, TechCrunch & Jersey Shore

October 1, 2010

It’s Friday again! Did you miss it? Have you been waiting alllll week for this glorious day to come? I sure have ;) Every week I make it through my 9-5 is a miracle. But you know what? I’m saving like a mother and taking it to the bank until I can’t step foot into [...]

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