Archive for July, 2010
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Monday, July 12th, 2010If you have a few minutes, watch this slide show from Dave Ramsey: Drive Free. Retire Rich. According to the video, a third of car buyers finance their cars for 6 years at 9.6% interest, making their monthly payment about $475. He then presents an idea… You want a new car. Your current car is [...]
Check Out This Week’s Carnival of Personal Finance
Monday, July 12th, 2010Lots of good stuff in this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance over at Funny About Money.
A Little Math on the Nissan Leaf
Monday, July 12th, 2010I read an article in this morning’s WSJ about the Nissan Leaf. The Leaf, which will be out in 2012, is an all-electric vehicle. It’s estimated to go 100 miles on a charge. According to the WSJ, it’s expected to price out at about $33,720 (or $26,220 with a $7,500 tax credit). I haven’t read [...]
Announcing the Winner of the “Financially Stupid People Are Everywhere” Giveaway
Sunday, July 11th, 2010Affiliate Link The winner of last week’s giveaway was commenter #2, J. Congrats to J. I’ll be sending J an email. For those of you who didn’t win, you should still check out Jason’s book*. I don’t agree with everything he has to say but it is a good book nonetheless. The next giveaway will [...]
What Topics Would You Like Me to Write About?
Sunday, July 11th, 2010I’ll be the first to admit that I just have not been inspired to write much of anything here at AFM. I got on a political bent for awhile. I went that way for a few reasons: • I felt a need to express myself. • I didn’t (and still don’t) like where this country [...]
I Figured Out What My Word Press Issue Was
Saturday, July 10th, 2010After I posted last week about my frustrations with Word Press, one of the commenters mentioned disabling my plugins and then adding them back in one at a time to determind which one was causing the infamous blank screen. So, I decided to give it a try. I don’t run a lot of plugins on [...]
Help Me Help a Friend in 2010!
Saturday, July 10th, 2010Hey everyone. If you can afford to help, PLEASE JOIN ME in making a donation to Beth’s walk this year. For those of you not familiar, Beth walks each year for The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Beth lost someone close to her to suicide and that experience has motivated her to get involved in [...]
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