Welcome to the April 30, 2008 edition – #2 of the carnival of net worth. This edition had some pretty great entries – and this one is my favorite: Jonathan presents A Wise Saving Habit: The 10% Rule posted at Master Your Card, saying, “Hiya Good luck with the Carnival this week! Cheers, Jonathan” The [...]
I’ve never been a big fan of real estate, though I have written about the topic recently. Over the past few weeks I’ve considered the power of leverage in other areas besides real estate- such as my business. For the past 2 1/2 years I have been running a small business in my spare time. [...]
One of my best-performing Llamafolio stocks is no longer doing well – VDSI is officially in the crapper. On April 23th the closing price was $13.83 per share. April 24th, the opening price was $11.50, and closing was $10.36. As I write this, the stock sits at $9.80 with no bottom apparent. That’s roughly a [...]
Welcome to the very first edition of the Carnival of Net Worth. I got an absolute TON of submissions, but I only included the ones pertaining to net worth. There were quite a few off-topic submissions. Here’s the ones that made the cut: TerryT2 presents How You Make Money With Investment Real Estate posted at [...]
After the last 5 or 6 trips to the grocery store, my wife has seemed quite flustered. She kept commenting on how expensive things were getting. Without buying things like meat or chicken, our grocery bill would still be over $120 for a single week. Add in meat and chicken and things get really ugly. [...]
Saturday, I took my wife to my favorite coin shop ( ok, the only coin shop I’ve ever been to ) to take a look at a bit of gold. Naturally we had to hit the ATM first, since coin shops only accept cash. The margins are apparently pretty thin, so credit cards will destroy [...]
This weekend, my washing machine decided that it no longer likes warm water. It hasn’t liked hot water for quite some time, but it was content to use warm. This is no longer the case. Any time we switch it on warm or hot, it pours forth water from every orifice, and makes quite a [...]
Not to the site, but to me! I turned the ripe young age of 26 today. Instead of taking the day off to relax and rest, I’m working as usual. After work I’ll head out to a nice little Mexican restaurant with my wife and son to celebrate. Nothing too fancy, just a nice time [...]
Recently I read a post by at Financial Jungle called – How Heavy Is Your Portfolio On The Sin Scale?. Basically the topic is whether or not you should invest in “sinful”, or morally empty companies. A great example would be a tobacco company. Should you buy stock in a tobacco company? I say go [...]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been noticing speed issues when loading up Llama Money. The problems are on and off, and just when I’m about to do something about it, everything starts working fine. So I present the question to my readers – does Llama Money load slow for you? The reason I ask [...]
