At the very least, Donna’s plan could put things in perspective for spendthrifts out there. Then there are those of us tightwads who’ll read it find ourselves saying, “Yeah, I do that!”
personal finance
USAA Lets You Remotely Deposit Checks
By 1.28.07
We got a flier in our recent USAA bill announcing they’re now letting customers deposit checks from home. Just sign and scan your checks and send it in through the USAA website. As far as we know, USAA is the only bank to offer this service to consumers.
Save Small, Save Often
By 1.22.07
Ramit drew up a clever graph to explain why you can’t keep your long-term savings goals.
Yahoo’s New Personal Finance Site
By 1.19.07
Yahoo launched a new personal finance today site to help you manage your money.
Open A Roth IRA Now
By 1.19.07
Blueprint For Financial Prosperity highly advises you open a Roth IRA right now if you don’t got one, sucka.
Payday Lenders Are Just A Symptom
By 1.18.07
Payday lenders receive buckets of bane for preying upon low-income, under informed borrowers, as ruminated upon in a recent NYT piece:
An Argument For Index Funds
By 1.15.07
FreeMoneyFinance has a nice piece on why he invests mainly in index funds.
Poll Results: How Do You Budget?
By 1.5.07
Here’s how Consumerist readers responded to a poll about how they go about setting their personal budgets:
HOW TO: Re-Up Your Lease, Keep The Same Rent
By 1.5.07
We and our girlfriend’s 12 month apartment lease ran out and so we signed another lease, but our rent stayed the same.
New Quicken 2007 Update Available
By 1.5.07
Apropos of yesterday’s budgeting poll, Intuit released a new patch for Quicken 2007.
Poll: How Do You Budget?
By 1.4.07
Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser.
HOW TO Reduce Real Estate Taxes
By 12.28.06
How can you make sure you’re not paying too much real estate tax?
Charitable Cash Donation Deductions Now Require Proof
By 12.27.06
Blueprint for Financial Prosperity scrutinized the new IRS rules about charitable donations and found an important change.
Two-Cycle Billing And Why It’s Evil
By 12.12.06
AllFinancialMatters lays down the math on why two-cycle billing sucks.
Bitchy Blogger’s 5 Steps To Financial Freedom
By 12.5.06
ViolentAcres, a self-described mean blogger, went from riches to rags to riches. Here’s how she got from the second to the third.
