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By Jeff, on January 22nd, 2007 Hometime – How-To – Project Help – Preventive Home Maintenance
This is a great list. Excellent reminders. I am terrible at home maintenance so I actually need these kinds of reminders—otherwise I just wait around for something to fall apart, which requires me to pay out the nose for some professional to fix it. Dumb.
Just one question for all you readers: how many of those chores do you actually do?
[tags]personal finance, home maintenance[/tags]
. . . → Read More: How to keep your house from collapsing around you
By Jeff, on January 21st, 2007 Our National Savings Rate Is Embarrassing [Fool.com] January 17, 2007
Wow… this was surprising to me:
…consider these historical numbers for the U.S. personal savings rate:
* 1984: 10.8% * 2001: 1.8% * 2003: 1.4%
Do you see a troubling trend? So do I. Care to guess where we landed in 2005?
* 2005: (0.5%)
That’s right — negative savings!
Is that unprecedented? Well, not exactly. We hit negative levels for two years — during . . . → Read More: U.S. National Savings Rate breaks a bad barrier
By Jeff, on January 15th, 2007 The Simple Dollar » The Money Savvy Pig and My Son’s Allowance
Another good idea from Trent, over at The Simple Dollar. A transparent, compartmentalized, piggybank does seem like a good way to teach money management to young kids. His plan hits the major keys of teaching: Tell, Show, Do, Review.
Obviously he’ll have to tell his son what he’s doing. Then he will show him what it looks like as the savings build. Though . . . → Read More: Teaching money management to kids
By Jeff, on January 14th, 2007 G-Ding.TV | Viewing Linux in a whole new way
For the cost of basic hardware you can have a PVR (Personal Video Recorder, e.g., TIVO) in your house. You can even use an old computer (maybe go get a bigger hard drive, and a TV Tuner card if you don’t already have one), to save even more money.
This is nothing new, really. MythTV (the PVR software) has been around for a while. Linux (the . . . → Read More: Almost free TV / PVR
By Jeff, on December 31st, 2006 I’ve been quiet on here for a couple weeks due to some time pressures. Lots to do during the lead-up to Christmas, as I’m sure you can all understand. I had it all planned out – a full week of vacation to get it all done – but then some problems at work forced me to give up most of my “free” time. The week after Christmas was spent running around to stores with gift . . . → Read More: What I’ve been thinking
By Jeff, on December 13th, 2006 Easy Meal Prep Association and Meal Assembly Directory
I’m looking for ways to live cheaper. I got a tip in the comments of another blog to check out a Meal Preparatory business. The link above is a directory of these kinds of businesses.
In case you aren’t familiar with the concept, the way it works is that you sign up for a session, choose the meals you want to make from that month’s menu, then . . . → Read More: Is a meal preparation service a good deal?
By Jeff, on December 12th, 2006 Long-distance callers have some money coming – MarketWatch
Make any long distance calls in the last three years? Claim your cash in 2007!
The repeal of the Federal excise tax (initiated in 1898 to fund the Spanish-American war) means the government is handing out refunds. Niiiiice.
You’re eligible for the refund if you made a long-distance call between Feb. 28, 2003, and Aug. 1, 2006. To make it easy, the IRS is offering a . . . → Read More: Claim some long-distance cash!
By Jeff, on December 9th, 2006 The Simple Dollar
If you’re looking for a simple, easy to follow personal finance blog, check out The Simple Dollar. I get a headache just thinking about personal finance, but I seriously enjoy this site and I’m learning quite a bit as well. It’s not the be-all-and-end-all of finance information, but it is open, personal, easy to read, and full of good advice – especially if you’re looking to lower some of your debt.
I . . . → Read More: The Simple Dollar – and other personal finance links
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