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Posts from ‘November, 2007’

Winding Down Friday: Youtube Finance Lessons

I’ve always thought that Youtube was a great addition to the vast wealth of information available on the net. While I’ve seen plenty of my co-workers peruse it much like they do myspace, searching for funny bits or attractive looking people, I’ve found it helpful in tracking down information as well. Does it help proponents [...]

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Becoming a LIP

Personal Finance Bloggers like myself blog for an innumerable number of reasons. Some want to share their debt-eliminating experiences with readers, others want to show the world how they increase their net worth, or maybe they hope that their blogs will one day blossom into a full-time job. One unifying theme for most in the [...]

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Things I Learned from Moving

Sooner or later all of us have have the wonderfully stressful experience of moving. Whether it be for a new job, cheaper rent, first house, or even just for a change of scenery. While on the whole I would say that things went pretty swimmingly (Nothing got broken, our fish made it through alive, our [...]

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Digging my way out!

Hello all!
I’m not dead, but I am moving! It took up my entire day yesterday (for future reference, don’t ever move on a weekday, no one will be around to help!) and now I begin the slow..tedious process of unpacking my goodies and finding their proper place. As such I’ll be taking today off as [...]

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How Much do you Really Need?

So I’ve been digging through my budget and recent expenses, and I decided to come up with the amount of money I would need, bare minimum, to meet my current expenses. This comes with a few assumptions of course, namely:

I am debt free
Still have enough to save 100$/month for an emergency fund and at least [...]

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