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February 2008

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• 02.25.08
  Cute Kids and Star Wars Blog | (1)

  This has nothing to do with personal finance, other than that Star Wars is really an allegory about American spurning the gold standard. But it is really cute ... I found this little gem doing some research over at Twenty Sided for a future series I am planning. Stay tuned.
• 02.25.08
  Taxes, Taxes, Taxes – I Love Taxes Frugality | (0)

  Well, thats not exactly true - I just love getting a refund! This weekend I did my Federal and State Income Tax Return and my wife and I will be getting over $1,000 back of our hard earned cash back. That is going to be a nice little boost to our $10,000 savings goal. Which made me realize that I didn't post anything about how much progress we made last month on meeting any of our goals. I didn't even do any tracking of them! Luckily this can easily be be remedied. Expect the usual ...

  Tagged: savings
  
• 02.25.08
  Foreclosures Are Not Cheap Frugality | (2)

  This weekend my wife and I made our way over to my father's house to help him out with some yard work. On our way there we saw a sign for an open house on a foreclosure. Drunk with HGTV madness we decided that we would stop by and check out the property - you never know how low the price could be. So after doing some work around his house we made a short walk up the street and around the corner to this 3 bedroom, 2 bath home. Parked outside was a beat-up, white ...

  Tagged: cost of living, future, housing, San Diego
  
• 02.22.08
  Rounding Out My Reading: Quotes Edition Money Misc. | (2)

  The past few weeks have been slow blogging for me as well as a slow reading - so this weeks edition of what I've been reading doesn't have that many links to it. So here we go: Deamiter over at handling finances posted and good article on why I (meaning me, Steward) am so stupid. Deamiter didn't have it out for me per se, but he sure nailed me on just about every failure that he mentions in this article about why our brains fail us. I am poor at evaluating probability and risk (just look at my Centsports ...

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