I grew up with a stay-at-home mother that took wonderful care of us and provided what we needed. She cooked, cleaned, cared, and loved all 4 her kids as well as anyone could on the single income Dad brought in. Anymore it is tough to get along well with just one income; love can help [...]
Welp, the landscaping and deck building this past week dug deep into the e-fund and overall numbers so they’re not really as bad as they show up because they should both pay off more than the 8k-ish spent on them.
So it really is quite amazing how liberal banks were with lending money back a few years back, but their purse strings have tightened up significantly in the last year or 2… Buy a home with NO money down? Really? Yes, it actually can be done…we will show you how some folks do it. Of [...]
So I did some deep undercover investigation for this weeks carnival digging back in time to bring you The History of Money! Did you know that China was the first to use paper money around the year 1000. It was made from the bar of mulberry trees. Leaves from these trees, you may recall, are [...]
![Net Worth Update June 6, 2008 [$113,261.38(-3.08%)]](http://www.myinvestingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/20080606-net-worth-150x150.jpg)
June wasn’t as bad as the numbers make it out to be. Yes, I lost about 3k on the net worth, but I bumped up my 401k contribution to 15% this past month along with my wifes. The 3k loss can most likely be contributed to the landscaping addition I tacked on that sucked 3.5k [...]
Who would have thought that there’d come a day when 1MIL would officially “not be what it used to be”. According to Yahoo, it happened a while back because the new elite number is 10MIL minimum! How can this be, and how much further are we going to have to climb with inflation? “The tool-and-die [...]
It’s geared towards the younger crowd, but I’d have to say that I would have benefited from it when I was growing up. There are even a few tidbits that I took from the book that I enjoyed and certainly agreed with the book as a whole (including SenseToSave’s review)…
![Net Worth Update May 9, 2008 [$120,697.64 (+3.55%)]](http://www.myinvestingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/20080509-net-worth1-150x150.jpg)
We’re looking up again this month – looks like the mutual funds are coming back a little bit this month. Both the wife and I had good 401k returns this month. The house dropped a bit, but that’s to be expected, but overall we’re looking up again.
The week had some good posts that saw some good traffic including demystifying the subprime crisis, dumping the National Income tax for a National Sale tax, and the “selling” of annuities trap. The sites that really got me inspired this week are:
So in buying my new house a year and 1/2 ago, I wasn’t aware of property taxes. And after paying them in my closing costs for the first part of the year last year, I neglected the 2nd half of the payment ending last year, and only realized it when I got the late noticed [...]
