Penny For My Thoughts

A Personal Finance log

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Round up of my week re money

October 25th, 2008 · No Comments

I got an e-mail from Fidelity saying my Roth transfer was in process, so that should be done soon, I’d think.
In other news, we went to Trader Joe’s over the weekend, spurned on by their most recent frequent flyer. I was interested by how wink, wink, nudge, nudge soem of their descriptions were-I’ve known [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized

Power Steering

October 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Since I bought my car in 2007, I have tried to educate myself on car care and maintenance. In particular, I am trying to learn what sort of car care I can do and what I should have my mechanic do. Thanks to the Internet, I can not only learn about this [...]

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Tags: car

Money Mistakes

October 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This week’s (posted on Wednesday, but I’ve had a crazy week!) SquawkBack Wednesday was the three biggest financial mistakes you’ve made. I’d say that mine were:

Running up credit card debt after my father died
Putting money in a CD rather than a high-yield savings account my sophomore year of college
Grossly underestimating the amount in my [...]

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Tags: Debt · current events · meme

Random Chatter and a contest

October 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’m very excited-I saw Stephen Sondheim at a local university last night. While it’’s not as cheap as it seemed on the surface-I had a cheap ticket, but I still had to pay to park at the subway (which is going up $2 more at the start of the month!), take said subway, buy [...]

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Tags: current events · free money