Dollar Jane

I finally put in the request with my boss for a vacation. I decided to take off for a week and a half in the beginning of June, during my birthday. I immediately felt that I should go for the full 2 weeks, but my last vacation was 2 weeks, and it was a nightmare […]

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…Was Spam! It’s this weird site that scrapes personal finance blog posts. The blog’s title is the big tipoff: “Debt on the Finance World for News and Information Around the World on Finance.”
With all of the sophisticated spam techniques out there, why is it that grammar continues to elude spammers? I guess it’s a testament […]

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I’m not going to update the save-o-meters until the end of the month, but my credit card payment has already been processed. My balance is now down to $1,058. I’m so tantalizingly close to paying it all off! About a year and a half ago I wiped out my credit card debt and I’m so […]

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In my line of work, I review a lot of grant applications. This gets me thinking a lot about charities, and the many different options I have for charitable giving. This is probably the first year of my life that I’ve really had enough income to think seriously about planning my giving.
I’ve tried to give […]

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I’ve read plenty of posts on how a healthy diet can lead to a healthy wallet. I liked Millionster’s three-part post “How I Lost Weight and Gained Control” for an interesting take on how to get into the habit of bringing your lunch to work and how to cut grocery costs. It’s very obvious […]

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Although it’s already March, I did set financial goals at the beginning of 2008. My goals are:
1) Fully fund my Roth IRA. In 2007, I contributed about $3,500. My January, February, and March contributions all counted towards 2007, so beginning in April, I’ll be making my 2008 Roth contributions. I recently bumped my automatic contributions […]

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I’ve been reading personal finance blogs very regularly for several months now. Lately the little voice in my head saying, “I can do this!” has grown loud enough that I’ve ventured over to Wordpress to give it a try.
I am obsessed with personal finance. Yet, I’ve read very few pf books. The few exceptions include […]

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