September 2008

Funny to host Carnival of Money Stories

September 24, 2008

Next week Funny about Money will host the Carnival of Money Stories again. The deadline is this Sunday for the carnival that goes live on the 30th. So…be sure to send in your money stories!

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Times sez retiring set scared

September 24, 2008

“Retirees Filling the Front Line in Market Fears,” says a New York Times report still online in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Damn straight! The craziness of expecting people to base their economic security in old age on the stock market is coming home in the current flirtation with worldwide depression. This country’s need [...]

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Small glimmer of light in the tunnel

September 23, 2008

(Hope it’s not a headlight!) Yesterday evening I walked Cassie past a foreclosed house a block to the west. The place has always been trashed: the people who lived there for years took pride in running it down, and so by the time they were tossed out, it was quite a mess. The “For Sale [...]

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Moments of Fame

September 23, 2008

Aryn hosts a vast Carnival of Personal Finance at Sound Money Matters this week, where Funny’s dialogue with the investment adviser appears. She offers an appealing autumn theme. Most inspiring, Madison at My Dollar Plan describes how she escaped the workforce at the ripe old age of 29…hint: if you’re 16, it’s not too soon [...]

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The least important bill

September 22, 2008

Plonkee, spinning off a Simple Dollar post, contemplates her most and least important billsand asks, “If you order your bills from most important to least important, could you get rid of the one on the bottom of the list?” Interesting exercise! After thinking about it, here’s what I’ve come up with. Some items tie for [...]

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Hold the dish detergent, please

September 21, 2008

Here’s a little discovery: liquid laundry detergent works as well as (maybe better than) dish detergent, and it costs less. Possibly it can be made to cost a lot less. In the past when I’ve burned food on a pan and not wanted to scrub it clean right after dinner, I’ve carted the dirty pan [...]

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