Alternate blog title #1: Tell me you grew up in a working class family without telling me you grew up in a working class family. Alternate blog title #2: Coinstar can take their 12.5% coin counting fee and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. What do you do when your banks are full and it's raining out? You count and roll coins like a couple of bored GenX kids. Our current bank doesn't offer a coin counting machine so we had to do it the old fashioned way. Longtime readers may ...
Friday 5: Pew Slag
Happy, er, Saturday. I was very sleepy last night, even missed movie night which was Encino Man - a movie that I put on the list! In Bummer, dude. This week's Friday 5 is PEW SLAG. What recently made you Proudest of yourself?To buy our house 6 years ago, I liquidated the 401(k) account that I had from my Courier-Post days. It is touted as a terrible idea to do such a thing, but we wanted to buy a house and there was no other way we could ever save up $50,000 cash for a 20% down payment ...
Working toward financial peace
Do you know what happens when you initially order the Comcast Triple Play? Your 2 years go by, then the price goes up. They'll offer you some premium channels for free to keep you on at the higher price. Then another 2 years go by and those discounts expire. Then you end up paying Comcast $238 a month. Yeah. WM and I talked often about cutting the cable and just sticking with Internet. We've examined our options, but concluded that we're not ready yet. But we were ready to save some serious ...
