July 2006

Yard Sales are great fun!

July 30, 2006

The age old American tradition of purging of unwanted items that are someone else’s treasures is alive and well! Despite the 90 degree weather with 80% humidity with no shade, we managed to make out with more than just a sun burn. More important than walking away with $171, we managed to declutter our lives [...]

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Values Circle – Smart Couples Finish Rich

July 28, 2006

We initially read Smart Couples Finish Rich as we were preparing for our wedding. Needless to say, we had a few things going on, and weren’t able to write about the book as much as we thought would be valuable for our readers. I’d have to say that normally I buy a book thinking of [...]

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There’s No Free Lunch: Lim Part II

July 27, 2006

Yesterday, we outlined the first few chapters of Paul Lim’s book, “Money Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make”. By way of our second posting in this series, we wanted to briefly describe Lim’s views on risk and investing as he outlines in Chapter 4 and 5. Chapter 4 details risk. Specifically, Lim discusses investment returns [...]

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Money Mistakes you Can’t Afford: Lim Part I

July 25, 2006

One of the better books in our small collection of personal finance literature is “Money Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make“. The author is a former columnist for US News and World Report, Paul Lim. Lim’s book outlines a few important, “can’t miss” points. We’ll briefly outline some of them here and then discuss a [...]

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Registry Tips

July 23, 2006

As you all know, weddings often hold the tradition of gift giving close at heart. These days that means registering to your heart’s content. I’ll be honest that given the small size of our apartment and our propensity towards keeping down the clutter, the task felt a bit daunting when I first brouched it in [...]

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Clearing Clutter – Financial & Otherwise

July 23, 2006

As you may know, we DINKS have a LOT of accounts. As we posted earlier, one of our financial goals has been to simplify and close some of our miscelleneous accounts (we had 17!) Thus far, we have managed to close two of Miel’s accounts that weren’t being used and rolled over three DRIP accounts [...]

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Pizza Woes

July 21, 2006

This posting is about an American icon: Dominos Pizza. Miel and I had been accumulating shares of Dominos Pizza (DPZ) using the companies dividend reinvestment plan. Over the past two years we managed to buy a total of 158.23 shares of the company making small purchases ($25 to $100 per transaction). However, Dominos iconic status [...]

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James’s Latest Stock Purchase

July 20, 2006

As you may recall, Miel and had an unexpectedly large tax return from 2005. In an effort to hold onto some of the money before we spend it on living expenses, I decided to contribute about a thousand to my ROTH IRA in addition to the money we had already allocated to stocks. After making [...]

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Buying Souvenirs In Thailand

July 18, 2006

One of the more amusing parts of our Thailand honeymoon was going shopping. I guess I’m like most Americans in that I don’t have a opportunity to haggle very much when I go shopping in the States. The local markets in Thailand were a different story. One of the major problems with being a tourist [...]

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We Are Back!

July 16, 2006

Hello All, We arrived in DC just a few hours ago and wanted to let the readers of our blog know that we have returned! We should be back to our daily postings after we recover from our jet lag! Best, James & Miel

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