Monthly Archive: February 2007

Net Worth Update For February 11

Net Worth Update For February

As a means of tracking my progress towards my 2007 goals, I am going to be running this as an on-going series of posts. As a bit of background, here are the opening posts...

PayPal Money Market Fund 11

PayPal Money Market Fund

In a recent comment, Tech mentioned that PayPal was paying over 5% on their money market fund. In a nutshell, my response was to stay away from the PayPal account for a couple of...

Auto Mechanic Mistake 13

Auto Mechanic Mistake

Last week I was ranting about Chevrolet after my wife took her vehicle to the dealer. After posting about my rant I was feeling better but that all changed last night when my wife...

FMF March Madness – Round 1 0

FMF March Madness – Round 1

Free Money Finance has posted the first round of games in the March Madness tournament. Right out of the gates, my post about being honest with yourself is squared off against a podcast in...

Celebrity Carnival of Personal Finance 5

Celebrity Carnival of Personal Finance

This week my post on how to lower your taxes by saving has been included in the Carnival of Personal Finance being hosted at Binary Dollar. My Favorites. When a new carnival is released,...

I’m In Debt – MTV True Life 18

I’m In Debt – MTV True Life

Last night my wife and I were flipping channels and we came across the show True Life on MTV. The focus of the show was on three young women that were in debt and...

Financial Accountability 3

Financial Accountability

Humberto Cruz has written an interesting article that discusses the relationship between a lack of savings and your spending habits. He explains that many families do not have money to save due to their...

Careful With Those Cards 1

Careful With Those Cards

Last night I was lucky to avoid a costly mistake of not paying close enough attention while conducting a financial transaction. With a night of crummy weather ahead, we decided to have last night...

March Madness – Finance Style 3

March Madness – Finance Style

For the basketball fans in the crowd, March Madness is one of the most exciting times of year as the college basketball teams compete for the NCAA championship. There is no doubt that many...

Sharing Link Love – 1st Edition 6

Sharing Link Love – 1st Edition

In an effort to try and duplicate some of the success John Chow has had with his Review My Blog promotion, I left a comment on a site earlier today mentioning that I would...