Did you reach your goals for 2010? I have to admit to mixed results. My biggie? I’m debt free and have a five month emergency fund. Financial goal met. What now? I want to skip out of the rat race completely. I’m on my way, but not nearly as quickly as I would like. I’m now […]
Today Chicken Little called out, “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” The panic began and Wall Street plunged, but eventually came to it’s senses a bit. When the final trades were counted, the index was off 363.35 points, or 3.5 percent and closed at 9,962.03. Still not a good day for the market, but not as bad as […]
The deed has been done. A big, honkin’ debt has been paid. I had to buy a new central air conditioner last July before we even moved into our money pit. Since I had already laid out the funds to pay half on the home, to put in two new bathroom floors and two low flow […]
My Dollar Plan recently chose my post, 2008 Financial Goals Nearly Met, as one of the Editor Picks from The Carnival of Financial Goals. I feel honored to be listed among so many really good posts, especially some by the “big guys” of the financial niche of blogging. A couple of the ones I read on […]
I am neither financially fit nor physically fit, but I’m working on both. On Nov. 27, 2007 Patrick at cashmoneylife asked for our financial goals for 2008. These were mine. My main financial goal for 2008 is to pay off a no interest x 1 year purchase of a new central a/c unit. This will be $4,485 due […]