Archived entries posted in "Emergency fund"

Hanks Weekly Hangouts #29 (May 10, 2008)

Hey, looks like you’re new here! I blog about money. Saving, investing, insuring, getting, and using it! See my “about me” page for more info! To keep up to date, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get the blog in your email! Thanks for stopping by!Some good […]

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A Day Of Readers Requests - Including Will Several New Car Loan Inquiries Hurt Your Credit Score? And Why Do You Not Disclosure Your Identity?

I haven’t done readers requests in a while because I haven’t had one good one that I think would take up an entire post. HOWEVER, I’ve had several small requests that I can wrap into one post. Inquisitive, interesting, intriguing and some even unusual…
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How To Deal With Property Taxes; To Wrap, Or Not To Wrap (In Your Mortgage).

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 […]

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Net Worth Update April 1, 2008–$116,557.16 (+10.54%)

A few things helped out this months net worth statement:
1. My almost 8k tax refund certainly didn’t hurt anything. I am not going to be getting as much next year as I adjusted my W-4s to better fit my pay scale finally. I’m sick of giving the government a free loan each […]

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Jump Start Your Frugality

There is still 5 days 3 hours 4 mins and 36 seconds left to get entered for some great free stuff at Hanks Holiday Handout #2 giving away $200+ of prizes!
This is a guest post (if you would like to guest post, contact me) from Ben at MilkYourMoney.com
MilkYourMoney.com is a daily blog dedicated to helping […]

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Hanks Weekly Hangouts #23 (March 29, 2008)

There is still 9 days 23 hours 48 mins and 21 seconds left to get entered for some great free stuff at Hanks Holiday Handout #2 giving away $200+ of prizes!
It’s been a good week this week. Easter was good to all I hope. I had an interesting time tossing back and forth the best […]

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Hanks Weekly Hangouts #22 (March 22, 2008)

Strange how that works out, Hangout #22 falls on the 22nd. Must be a sign! Go buy a lottery ticket, quick! Another good week at MIB, readership via RSS increased 13% I believe due to a few new advertising structures I’m bouncing around including Entrecard and StumbleUpon Ads. I’ll be […]

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The 29 Most Frugal Things I Have Ever Eone - Do Yours Compare To My Past Levels Of Cheap?

I got to thinking this weekend when I saw half a tablet of the dishwasher detergent (the kind that comes in the “concentrated pacs”) left in the bucket and thought I’d toss it in and get the extra $0.04 out of the jumbo bucket of 60 I got at Costco. I had plenty more to […]

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Hanks Weekly Hangouts #21 (March 15, 2008)

This week has been a good week all around for MyInvestingBlog. We had close to 10,000 visitors thanks to a few viral posts, “How do I publicize my blog“, “will Brett Favre’s retirement affect the stock market“, and “a slick StumbleUpon option you may not know about“. Sold a few advertisementing spots and […]

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How Do I Publicize My Blog? A Personal Finance Blog’s Lifeline From “Start-Up” To “Staple”

I was contacted by a fellow Personal Financer this morning named Naveed from NaveedsMind who asked a question that got me going for 9 hours writing this one! Ever get on a kick like that? Grab a cup of coffee and sit down for this one, it’s a long, interesting, and informative story you will […]

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