January 2010

Day of simple riches

January 31, 2010

Every now and again a rainbow-like day comes along, one of those phenomena that reminds us of what real wealth is all about. The choir did a lot of singing this morning—the whole chivaree was quite a songfest, lots of Rutter and some rather challenging chant. Very fun. Escaping from the church, I met M’hijito [...]

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Funny’s b-a-a-c-k!

January 31, 2010

Funny about Money went down yesterday afternoon while I was gadding about town. It remained down into the evening, when Mrs. Micah contrived to rescue it. Turns out the problem was a corrupted plug-in. Anyway, the site is back up, and I hope it will stay up. Welcome back, dear readers! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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We don’t need no steenking laundry detergent…

January 30, 2010

Frugal Scholar, who must read everything of value on the entire Internet, stumbled upon an amazing remark in, of all places, the Wall Street Journal. In one article, Seventh Generation founder Jeffrey Hollender remarks that it’s surprising most people use laundry detergent at all: “You don’t even need soap to wash most loads,” he says. [...]

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Running around COBRA’s barn again

January 29, 2010

Just realized I didn’t write a post this morning and then, whilst frolicking with bureaucrats, didn’t get to it this afternoon, either. Another fine exercise in jumping through hoops and tearing around the Maypole today. Not having heard anything more from the COBRA administrators over the past 15 days, despite having been told that a [...]

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Should you pay off your mortgage?

January 28, 2010

Preparing to write the next installment in a series on achieving financial freedom, I ran some figures to compare the result of paying down a mortgage with extra monthly payments toward principal with investing the same amount monthly in a mutual fund. What I discovered runs against my theory that you’re well served to pay [...]

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Recovery? Will even part-time work be there in 2011?

January 27, 2010

The county community college district continues to brace for further budget cuts. Enrollment is up 11 percent, since people tend to go back to school when they’re out of work. But that notwithstanding, the state and the counties don’t have enough money to fund basic services. Like education. By way of enlightenment, we are told [...]

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