June 2006

Update from Oregon III

June 28, 2006

Hello All, Thanks for reading, checking in or checking back, as the the case may be. Our nuptials are fast approaching, so Miel and I have been busy dealing with an increasing procession of friends and relatives, and we have been running around taking care of many small details. However, our family has been great, [...]

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Update from Oregon II

June 25, 2006

Hi All, Just wanted to sit down and let our readers know what we have been up to over the past few days.Since Miel and I are getting married, we have been spending the past few days visiting family and making preparation for our wedding, we haven’t had a lot of time to discuss finance, [...]

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Dennys

June 22, 2006

Generally one should not buy stocks that trade for under 10 dollars. However, I’ve been eyeing Denny’s (DENN) recently. Its stock chart looks atrocious, but recently the company seems to have been picking up. I just briefly looked over their financial statements and their net income, balance sheet and cash flow have all improved over [...]

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Wisdom of the Elders

June 20, 2006

James & I were fortunate enough to listen to James’ grandparents tell all sorts of stories about their lives. Along with 56 years of marriage, they have also been fortunate with their investments. James’ Grandpa Miller began his life in the middle of the great depression and had no shoes for 4-6 months a year. [...]

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Refining Our Post Wedding Financial Goals

June 17, 2006

Our wedding is coming up on July 1st. Since this is just a couple of weeks away, it’s going to mean a tremendous change in our finances aside from just shelling out a whole ton of money for the reception. So, we’ve put some thought into our medium term (3 to 5 year) goals after [...]

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Update from Oregon

June 17, 2006

As you frequent readers of our blog will know, both James and I are from Oregon. Well, we are back home to lay the ground work for our wedding. Since we are crashed at my twin sister’s place, we won’t get a chance to send you all the kind of detailed quality postings we normally [...]

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The Best Role Models Are Dead

June 15, 2006

This afternoon I had an interesting conversation with one of the interns from my research center at the U of Maryland. This young man was just finishing his Bachelors degree, but had begun to make good progress towards paying off his debts and was beginning to think about saving to buy a home. Our conversation [...]

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Social Approval, PF Blogging and Honesty

June 14, 2006

The impression I’ve been getting is that not everyone feels discussing personal finance on the internet is appropriate. For example, Miel’s ex-boyfriend recently found our blog and thought it was crass that we put so much personal information on-line. Some of our friends have also been concerned that the amount of disclosure we have on [...]

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Bach’s Smart Couples Finish Rich – Part 1

June 13, 2006

Miel and I picked up a copy of David Bach‘s “Smart Couples Finish Rich” a couple of weeks ago.We have reviewed the book in some detail, and have decided to do three postings to give the reader an good sense of what Bach has to say. In this first posting we’ll give an overview of [...]

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Blogland Round up!

June 11, 2006

There are a couple of noteworthy posts from the greater blogosphere that we’re commenting on today. Keith over at Housing Panic has a great post which details one real estate company’s expectations regarding the future of the housing market in the US. The long and the short of it is this company expects two or [...]

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