January 2007

SNL: Don’t Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford

January 31, 2007

In honor of one our readers, Abigail, here is an SNL clip that she tipped us off to! Thanks Abigail! A unique program for managing your debt. SNL skit featuring Steve Martin, Amy Poehler and Chris Parnell. So simple you can do it too! Click here to watch! Enjoy! Miel

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The State of the Economy Speech: Hurrah!

January 31, 2007

In case you haven’t guessed by now, my wife and both tend to vote democrat. We don’t blog about politics much and instead have tried to stay focused on personal finance because the blog should be open and accessible to all, democrat or republican. That said, I just caught the headlines from the President Bush’s [...]

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Prosper In The News

January 31, 2007

Good Morning all. An interesting story on Prosper.com came out in the Washington Post a couple of days ago. If you have been considering getting involved in prosper, either as a borrower or a lender, or even if you just want to kill a little bit of time, I’d recommend checking it out. To keep [...]

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Possibility

January 30, 2007

It has occurred to me in my recent travels that while our blog may be focused on finances, it is really all about creating possibilities. It’s about doing more with what you have, and creating abundance in your life. I believe that by taking control over your finance life you also create a freedom that [...]

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Ignore The Hype, Do What Works.

January 29, 2007

Like our tagline says, we sometimes rant a bit on our blog. Well, today’s posting is a bit of a rant. Specifically, one major complaint we have is that much of the content on the personal finance blogsphere isn’t helpful for building wealth. For our part, my wife and I have set the goal of [...]

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Crazy Business Ideas – Paid Protesting

January 27, 2007

So, we DINKS live in Washington DC. Since the city is the nations capital, people are constantly coming here to protest. Every month or so, some big group shows up to do a political event. Last week it was the anti-abortion people, this week the anti-war people are in town. Well, there has to be [...]

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Avoiding ‘Fees’ in Africa

January 26, 2007

Anyone who travels, or doesn’t, pretty much knows that Africa is full of requests for unexpected ‘fees’ from just about anyone who thinks they can get away with it. Here are a couple of evasive moves that have worked for us: Throw around what ever names you’ve got up your sleeve. When the customs officer [...]

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Sharebuilder Delivers!

January 25, 2007

A while ago we opened an account with Sharebuilder and used a promotional code which gave us a $50 dollar Barnes and Noble gift card. I’m always a bit skeptical of these types of offers because sometimes a company will try to back out of their side of things or try to add extra restrictions [...]

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Cash Mule

January 25, 2007

You’d be surprised at the amount of money you could spend in a developing country! As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts about my trip to the DRCongo, everything is expensive. The good news is that I walked away about $15,823 lighter after paying off expenses for the telecentre that our project funds. You can [...]

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Prosper Update – All is Well

January 24, 2007

Hi All, I just wanted to give our readers a quick update on our prosper account. We haven’t been blogging much about prosper, mostly because everything has been going fine. Where our accounts currently stand: As of Wednesday night we have currently loaned out $3,403.03 at an average interest rate of 21.72%. We currently have [...]

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