February 2008

Our Car Damage – Update

by Glen Craig

If you recall our car got a major boo-boo earlier in the week. Good news is I got a call from the insurance adjuster yesterday and they will cover all of the damages! The total bill is just under $4000. Of that I’ll be responsible for $850 due to my deductible (I have a deductible [...]

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We Went to Our Accountant to Get Our Taxes Done

by Glen Craig

This past Saturday we bundled everyone up and went off to our accountant to have our taxes done. (Yup, we brought the kids. They’re tax deductions after all). We go to a CPA that was recommended to us a few years back. He’s great to visit. He takes his time to go through our paperwork, [...]

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A Car Doesn’t Really Need Four Doors Does It?

by Glen Craig

It’s been a crazy couple of days here in FFB world. Monday morning while pulling out of the garage we had a little fender bender. Perhaps door bender is more accurate. The driver side door wasn’t completely closed so when we pulled out it snagged the garage wall. Next thing we know the door is [...]

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Festival of Frugality and Carnival of Money Stories

by Glen Craig

This week No Credit Needed hosted the Festival of Frugality #114. My article The Frugality of Our Feet was included. collectingmycash hosted the Carnival of Money Stories #48 – Leap Year Edition. If I could Turn Back Time – Money Mistakes I’ve Made was included. (I apologize if you hear Cher in your head after [...]

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Canival of Personal Finance #141

by Glen Craig

The Carnival of Personal Finance #141 was hosted over at Broke Grad Student. This week’s theme is The College Years. My article Seven Credit Card Tips from ING was included. I remember my college years. If I paid some more attention with a little more focus I wouldn’t be in college now (unless I was [...]

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FFB’s Festive Link Love Carnivality #5

by Glen Craig

So we went from wonderful weather to go out for a walk to a snowstorm. Such is Winter in NYC. Here are festivals/carnivals I’ve been in since the last issue: My Dollar Plan hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance – Valentine’s Day Edition where my post Roth IRA Goals Update was an editor’s pick!Lazy Man [...]

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The Frugality of Our Feet

by Glen Craig

So it’s Monday afternoon. We went out for a quick drive to do some errands. Afterwards we would be free. It was a holiday weekend for us so we were able to finish the majority of our errands earlier in the weekend. We could have gone back home but we were getting a bit of [...]

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If I Could Turn Back Time – Money Mistakes I’ve Made

by Glen Craig

Thinking back over my years I can think of a number of different money mistakes I’ve made. Some of them were foolishness. Some were ignorance. If only I knew then what I knew now…well I might not have listened to myself but maybe it would have helped some. Here are some big ones that come [...]

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President’s Day Money Quotes

by Glen Craig

In honor of President’s day here are quotes from twelve of our esteemed leaders: All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. -John Adams [...]

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Sunday Link Tag Fun

by Glen Craig

Stephanie over at Stop The Ride! tagged me in a link building meme. What’s with all these meme’s going around lately? Below is the body of the meme to be passed around. Copy between the copy marks and add your five to the list. Couldn’t say if it builds authority or not. Guess it depends [...]

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