Well, the iPhone is upon us, and people are rushing out to buy it in droves. It doesn’t surprise me a bit considering how much PR there has been about it (you don’t think it’s just coincidence everyone talks about it, do you?)
But it got me thinking that this is just the latest evidence of […]
With our first little one on the way in about two months, my wife and I are in the midst of trying to figure out the whole diapering issue. We tend to be on the side of the environment when we can, and so we’ve been looking at cloth diapering options. There are so many […]
MSN Money had an article today talking about making sure that your emergency fund is there for emergencies. They make some good points, especially about making the account separate from your other accounts and making sure it is inaccessible. The author said these are the first mistakes she made when setting up an emergency fund:
Set […]
As I mentioned yesterday, we just bought ourselves a new (used) car. We ended up getting a Honda Civic GX. We got a good price on it, paying only about $6,500 for the car. What we like about the car is
Good gas mileage - for the equivalent of a gallon of gas it gets 30 […]
We just bought ourselves a new (used) car the other day (I’ll talk about the reasoning we used to justify the car in another post). Since we bought it used, and from a private person, we ran the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) to check the vehicle’s history. Checking the VIN will tell you whether the […]
The Carnival of Personal Finance, #106 was released this morning by The Digerati Life. Here are a few of my favorites:
Madame X at My Open Wallet talks about how knowing your numbers is still a useful skill. I’ve always loved math, so numbers have always been fun for me, but I know those for […]
I’m a big fan of sites like Slickdeals.net, which collect and display great deals on things from computers to baby stuff to food. Just this last week I printed up a coupon from there for a Buy one get one free from Jamba Juice (link good through July 4, 2007). We went to Jamba juice […]
This is slightly old news, having happened at the beginning of the year, but I hadn’t heard about it so I thought I would mention it. At the beginning of this year, United Airlines quietly changed their policies about how long frequent flyer miles hang around. Their old policy was that if you had some […]
Yesterday I talked about how to get a free credit report every four months. Today I’ll be talking a little bit about what I look for on my credit report. I’m going to use Experian as an example because that is the agency I got my most recent report from. Each agency has their own […]
I’m a big fan of keeping track of my credit report. Most people have gotten ads from their credit card company talking about their “free” credit monitoring program that they are offering you because you’re a “valued customer.” (Those words almost always make me throw away whatever they are offering!) They may even give you […]
