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This is #4 in the Question of the Day Marathon.
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“Tax laws allow you to withdraw money penalty-free from your IRA up to $10,000 if you use it towards a first-time home purchase. We just got the check — my question is, how do we prove later on that we did use the money for the house?”
This article is about Spare Change Saturday, 5th August 2006 (by J.D. Roth)
August 5th, 2006 at 6:33 am
I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m not a big fan of blogs that publish articles that are nothing but lists of links. If you don’t have time to give a full summary of the article and give some fuel for discussion, I say best to just skip it and concentrate on one or two really good items.
August 5th, 2006 at 8:43 am
Thanks for the feedback, Jeff.
For several weeks, Get Rich Slowly had a sidebar that contained links to items that were interesting but that (a) I didn’t have enough time to write about or (b) weren’t worthy of a full entry. I did not like the way that the sidebar was implemented, so I chose to try this new system, which publishes links from a del.icio.us feed as part of the main flow of the weblog.
If I understand correctly, you’re saying that you find this tacky. Yes?
What do you believe the best method is for sharing this sort of thing? Publish the del.icio.us links to a sidebar? Not publish them at all? I’m curious, and willing to hear what you have to say.
August 5th, 2006 at 9:37 am
I like the links, but think they would be a lot better if there were a 2-4 sentence description of what they are, and why you found them interesting/useful. Since I’m so busy applying the useful things I find here, I don’t have as much time to just surf the net any more.
A short summary would help me know if they’re something that’d be worthwhile for me right now.
August 5th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
I like the links. It’s not like all you ever do is just put up links. It reminds me of a shorter version of what Charles Kirk of The Kirk Report does.