September 2006


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Mr. Impulse-Buyer Guy

Mrs. Addicted-to-Sales Shopper

Mr. and Mrs. Too-Much-Home Buyer

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Wheaties for Your Wallet » Blog Archive » Freakonomics, Information Asymmetry, and the Internet
A long, thoughtful meditation on how the internet might become more useful for consumers. Wheaties for Your Wallet has been a great read this past month.
(tags: shopping economics wesabe)

re:PDX - Portland Oregon Real Estate » Watch Your Wallet (and [...]

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My friend Mike is well-off. He lives alone, makes a good salary, invests wisely, and doesn’t spend money on foolish endeavors. Yet he often gets charged late fees. Why? Because he’s disorganized. He brings his bills home, throws them on the table, and they get lost under a mass of paper during the weeks that [...]

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In his most recent I Will Teach You to be Rich newsletter, Ramit Sethi shared a link to an article entitled “The $20 Theory of the Universe” [pdf | html]. Author Tom Chiarella’s premise is:
A twenty, placed in the right hand at the right moment, makes things happen. It gets you past the rope, [...]

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Too much Junk Mail? | How Do I Stop It | Stop Junk Mail Now with greendimes
A for-pay service that will stop junk mail and, strangely enough, plant a tree for you every month.
(tags: junkmail)

Mutual Improvement: Interview: Jason Fried of 37signals on Money and Happiness
This is a great interview. Fried is one of my muses.
(tags: [...]

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This is the third installment in Luneray’s homebuying adventure. In the first part, she looked at houses. Last week she made an offer. In today’s third part, she discusses coming face-to-face with a lifetime of debt. (Bold emphasis added by J.D.)
This house buying experience has been a real eye-opener when it comes to finances, besides [...]

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During my twenties, I accumulated nearly $25,000 in consumer debt. I had a spending problem. With time, I was able to get my spending under control (mostly), but I still owned overwhelming debt. How could I get rid of it?
The personal finance books all suggested the same approach:

Order your debts from highest interest rate [...]

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A confession by way of preface: in addition to personal finance, food, and comic books, I’m a fan of musical theater. Thus, you’ll forgive me for the following entry. I spent the evening on YouTube, looking for songs about money from old movies. I didn’t have much luck, but I had fun anyhow.
We’re in the [...]

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Sometimes a great deal isn’t. Because I have a small computer consulting business, I’ve been placed on a mailing list for “corporate rate” magazine subscriptions. Corporate rate subscriptions are unbelievably cheap, on the order of $10 or $12 a year for many magazines.
Being the frugal fellow that I am, when I received my first offer [...]

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