After much deliberation and waffling and driving myself (and I’m sure those around me) nuts, I believe I have found the car that I’m going to buy.

I decided early this year that I was going to get a new car. I currently have a 1997 Pontiac Grand Am. I’ve had it for almost 9 years (I’d hit 9 in July). I can’t roll down the driver’s side window […]

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In October 2008, I was laid off. That also meant that I lost my health insurance. Yes, I could have gotten the COBRA coverage, but I couldn’t afford that. I didn’t know how I was going to pay my bills or find another job, so how the hell was I going to afford the COBRA coverage?

I did find a contract job that I started in December […]

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I finally got the last of the tax documents that I had been waiting for yesterday, so I decided to file my taxes today. I e-filed using TurboTax for free (I did last year too). I’m glad I did, too. If I hadn’t, I would have missed a tax credit.

I was wondering why the refund estimate that TurboTax was showing me was higher than what I estimated when […]

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I did something tonite that I haven’t done since the end of September of last year. I transferred money into my 2 savings accounts ($200 into each). It felt soooo good. Right now I’m getting paid just slightly more than I did at my last job. So I should be able to go back on my savings plan. I might cut back just a little though. I was aggressively […]

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I’m really getting sick of all of the “bailout” talk. First it was the banks and financial institutions, and now it’s the auto industry. I understand that there is some legitimate need for bailing those entities out in some fashion … but $700 billion dollars? If they’re already in so much trouble, how the hell are they going to pay back the loans?

My biggest question is this: What […]

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