Penny For My Thoughts

In the deluge of catalogs we’ve gotten in the past few months, my mother found a remote control spider at Hammacher Schlemmer that she thought might make a nice gift for one of her grandsons.  I offered to check to see if they were having any sales for Cyber Monday (which is tomorrow, if you [...]

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Today, I’m proud to feature a guest blogger on Penny for my Thoughts on Dragon Naturally Speaking. I would like to add, anecdotally, that the Dragon speech recognition software is one I have a soft spot for, as classmates from middle school were used in the development of the software. Nuance is allowing [...]

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The Nuru Personal Finance Cards I won in the contest over on MoneyNing’s blog arrived in the mail yesterday.  I’m very impressed.  While Money Ning had praised the cards’ conciseness and portability, I worried that the content would suffer due to that.  This was an unnecessary worry, as the cards manage to cover everything from [...]

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Do you Black Friday?  I’m not a hard-core Black Friday shopper, but I enjoy shopping on it.  We started at Bob’s this year-I didn’t get anything particularly of note, just some stocking stuffers.  We then progressed to Target.  I’m quite fond of their Dollar section (for those of you who are “good friends” with Santa [...]

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With my new job, I’m reassesing my budget.  As a result, paying off my car is back on the table.  I have the money to pay it off, so the arguement goes something like this:
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Car payment per month goes back into the budget-I know sometimes that “extra” money gets eaten up, but I’ve done [...]

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I can’t believe it-I won the personal finance cards that Money Ning was giving away! I’ll be suew to post a review once I review them!

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My post about COBRA is being featured on The Carnival of Personal Finance! Check it out!
D you have a favorite e-voicemail service? I was using Private Phone, then they closed, so I switched to aim phone line, which is also closing. I’m bummed, I really like having the convenience of it-we ha [...]

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In my continuing search for ways to improve this blog for my readers, I’m trying to think of ways I can spice up my blog. One thing I’ve noticed that both personal finance as well as non personal finance blogs having in their posts is a blog photo. By including the photo, the [...]

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Having just rolled over my Roth IRA, trying to figure out what to do with my 401K was high on my agenda.  Because of the balance, I can’t keep it in my 401K*, it would be moved into an IRA at the firm my 401K is through.  I’m very much against just cashing my 401K [...]

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Not really money related (well, sort of), but I’m a vegetarian (ovo-lacto-I eat eggs and milk).  This time of year, with the holiday colloquially known as Turkey Day on the horizon, what a vegetarian eats is of question.  The first few years I was a vegetarian, I stuck with the traditional Tofurkey-it’s fairly tasty, and [...]

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