Archive for December, 2007
« Previous EntriesNew Years Resolutions — Made to Be Broken
Monday, December 31st, 2007Well, this certainly isn’t a very hopeful article….
Four out of five people who make New Year’s resolutions tonight will eventually break them. In fact, a third won’t even make it to the end of January.
That’s what time management firm FranklinCovey found when it polled more than 15,000 customers about their planned New Year’s resolutions. The […]
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Banking Fees
Monday, December 31st, 2007I use Quicken to keep track of my spending. Today I was confirming my transactions for the past month in my Citibank checking account and I noticed that they charged me a $9.50 monthly service fee. I haven’t been charged a monthly fee in years because I have a large balance on my […]
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Snowflakes and Avalanches
Sunday, December 30th, 2007One of the great things about being on vacation is that I have had time to look at what a lot of other people are doing on the blogosphere when it comes to personal finance and paying down debt. I never knew there was so much good information out there, and so many people […]
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Going On the Wagon
Sunday, December 30th, 2007I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I wish to stop drinking for a while.
I don’t drink a lot – I rarely if ever get drunk – but I do drink consistently, a couple glasses of wine almost every day. They say that this is healthy, but after a few months of doing […]
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Another Find
Saturday, December 29th, 2007I wrote yesterday about how I believe that picking up pennies has helped open me to what the universe has to offer to me.
Today I got another gift.
Last weekend while doing my Christmas shopping I kept an eye out for off-season specials on barbeques. I had a Weber barbeque, but last Summer it rusted […]
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New Years Resolutions Updated
Saturday, December 29th, 2007A while back I wrote a couple posts about my resolutions for the upcoming year. Those resolutions were:
1. To put myself first , and
2. To stick to my budget. In fact, I want to learn not only to stick to a budget, but to live frugally this year.
I’ve been working at both […]
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A Penny Found…..
Friday, December 28th, 2007Do you know people who seem to always find things when they’re walking? The ones who have stories of finding a hundred dollar bill, or an unopened box from Gucci’s? I have never been one of those people. Living in Brooklyn, I walk a lot, but for years I never found a […]
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Christmas Budget a Success
Thursday, December 27th, 2007So Christmas is over and I managed to keep to my budget. I had decided to buy gifts only for my father, mother & partner, and that I would spend no more than $30 on each gift. It took some work, self-discipline and luck, but I did it. Planning and avoiding impulsiveness […]
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A Frugal Christmas
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007I’m taking a break from the technology stuff today and thinking more about personal finance, which of course is what this blog was originally about. The reason for this is, I am going to do my Christmas shopping today.
I decided around Thanksgiving that this Christmas is going to be a very frugal […]
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How to Add More Widgets to Wordpress
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007I wrote yesterday that I wanted to make a few changes to my blog, and one of those changes is to have a few more widgets. Problem is, Wordpress’s default settings limit users to 9 widgets. So, as I have often had to do, I dug into the code behind my Wordpress blog. […]
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