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After taking a long look at our television viewing, we’ve decided to dump cable. Other than cartoons, most of what we watch is on the free broadcast channels, and the kids are starting to outgrow some of the cartoons. We’re currently on a special deal with Comcast where we get a ton of channels, HBO […]

April’s net worth calculation is up on the Monthly Results page. We had a net worth increase of $3265.25 or about 3% for the month.

We’ve been doing well lately, plowing money into the bank. We’ve resisted buying anything extraneous, though we both really want to. We’re finally to the point where we’re truly getting ahead. And then my Jeep broke. I was on my way to the airport to fly out of town and it suddenly wouldn’t shift right. […]

Since it looks like we’re going to get some money from the idiotic economic “stimulus” bill our esteemed leaders in Washington passed, I thought I’d discuss our plans for it. You can probably tell I’m not too thrilled with the passage of this law. It’s yet another bill our government is paying with future money…assuming […]

March net worth is posted on the Monthly Results page. We had a net worth increase of $2854.38 or about 3% for the month.

The more I learn about economics and how government actions affect the economy, the more I’m convinced we’re coming upon a period of high inflation. Wikipedia defines inflation as a rise in the general level of prices over time. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the most generally accepted measure of inflation. A rising CPI […]

After much internal debate, debate with my wife, and playing around with different scenarios in Microsoft Money, we’ve decided to change around some of our cash flow. Currently we’re putting about $700/month into our Irregular Expenses account and budgeting to spend $500 or less on Irregular Expense categories each month. We’re usually around $300 - […]

Our net worth for February is posted on the Results page. We had a net worth increase of $3934 or about 4% for the month. Unfortunately we’re still below where we started the year.

Now that we’ve paid our 0% credit card off, we’ve gone and built a balance on another 0% card. About a week ago we received some “convenience checks” from one of our credit cards. We get these all time and they usually have a nice low or 0% interest offer for 6 months or so. […]

I know it’s a bit early, but we’ve paid off our 0% credit card. We got to the point where the additional interest we would earn by having the money sitting in a savings account became negligible, so we just paid it off. We used this card to put carpet in our recently finished basement […]