Ah, populism. The flip-side of nationalism, both of which, when taken to extremes, turn people into scary nutcases, and I believe both leading to the exact insane end. What would we ever do without you, crazy people?

Here's a place that lets you track your credit score completely for free: www.creditkarma.com They calculate the score themselves based on your credit report, so it's not your exact FICO score, but it should still be fairly close. They let you track your score month-to-month, provide some advice/articles on money management, and give a list of some ( Read more... )

                So, due to a nice tax return prepared by yours truly, my hubby was able to afford a shiny new big screen LCD TV. Feeling like I must contribute in some way, I went through a few test trials to provide the “sound” part of our new “home theater.” First up was a 5.1 theater system by Panasonic that had a 5 DVD changer, a Dolby / DTS ( Read more... )

New engine: $990.
Labor: $1320.
Rental for a week: $186.

Having a car that starts up clean, runs very smooth, and performs like new: Pricel.. er, I mean $2500, and so worth it :D

Work: job is getting more and more complicated. After cleaning up Excel sheets and figuring out how to optimize code and financial formulas, I a now working on putting together reports and calculations for mortgage loans, doing future revenue (income) projections, and putting together an investment bond report that will go out to Moody’s to get ( Read more... )

Oden today >^.^<


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Finished my job at Haribo late last night. Had some last minute month close issues that I had to take care of, which kept me there till very late. Today I started my new job at the Maryland Department of Housing and Urban Development. The place is essentially a bank that gives out mortgage loans, and my job is as a Financial Analyst / Advanced ( Read more... )

The Black Friday sale is over. After 8 trips to CVS, where I would use the ECB coupons that print on receipts from each previous trip, I was able to get $141 worth of stuff with a final out-of-pocket expense of $1.48, and $17.79 in ECBs still left over (As in, I paid $1.48 to get ALL that stuff). I started this all out with $17.47 worth of ECBs ( ( Read more... )

CVS ExtraBucks + "rolling" ExtraBucks over and over wiith 5 trips to CVS + crazy 3 day only Black Friday CVS sale = $106 worth of stuff like toothpaste, shampoo, candy and makeup for only $1.30 of my on money. And I'm not even done yet. Most of it is stuff we don't think about when it comes to saving money, but still, that's $106 worth of stuff we ( Read more... )

Honestly the thing that concerned me most about this election was economics, and the candidate's knowledge of such. While some people were trying to scare other people by saying one of the guys palled around with terrorists, I was far more afraid of what the other guy might do or screw up had he got into power, and the possibility of far worse ( Read more... )