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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 FSA for this year*

Read more over at Squakfox’s post

Ironically, I got the news on my insurance for 2009 this year-my deductible will be going up slightly, and my co-insurance is going down. Compared to what else in happening in healthcare, it not horrible, but I think I may put more in my FSA than I was planning on-it’s just such a fine line!

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Tags: Debt · current events · meme

1 response so far ↓

  • 1 Squawkfox // Oct 27, 2008 at 10:34 am

    Thank you so much for the mention. I probably could have listed 10 financial mistakes myself.

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