Great article. Growing your own food is great, it’s sustainable (though I think people throw this word around too much), and it’s a fun hobby. But from a purely financial viewpoint, it often costs more to grow things yourself than it does to just buy them at the store. Other reasons aside, people don’t always [...]
Entries Tagged as 'money'
The case AGAINST having an emergency fund?!?
June 8th, 2010 · No Comments · money
This may seem quite opposite to what most people think of as sound financial advice, but here is a post that tells people that an emergency fund isn’t as critical to personal financial health as you think: The 0-dollar emergency fund – MSN Money. I have a couple thoughts on this, the first one being [...]
Tags: debt·personalfinance
Home Appliance Energy Use information from GE
May 7th, 2010 · No Comments · money
As someone who frequently freaks out when I open up the electric bill from NSTAR to find another month has cost us around $100, I find this to be a wicked cool and informative tool. The folks at GE have dome some (hopefully somewhat accurate) number tinkering and built a very user friendly website to [...]
Tags: energy·lifehacker
Renters Insurance and why it’s so important!
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Local, money, stuff
If you live in the Boston area, there is a good chance that you are a renter. If your building burns down, or if you are robbed (our place was many years ago before I moved in), your landlord’s homeowner’s insurance does not cover the cost of your belongings (or anything else for you, most [...]
Tags: insurance·mozy·personalfinance·rentersinsurance·renting
Move Your Money (to smaller banks)!
January 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · money
After reading a great article on the Huffington Post, I think I am nearly convinced to move most of my daily banking away from Bank Of America over to my old Wainwright Bank accounts. Supporting small, community banks is a small way to vote with your dollar against the lack of reform of the larger [...]
Tags: banking·bankofamerica·huffingtonpost·money·wainwrightbank
Amazon.Com Price Alerts
February 27th, 2009 · No Comments · money, stuff
I have been wondering for a while if I could set price alerts on Amazon for items that I wanted to buy but only at a particular price point. The short answer that I found was that no, I can’t do that directly on Amazon’s website. That’s okay though, there is another service named WishListBuddy [...]
Tags: amazon·shopping·wishlistbuddy
Major issue with new Bank Of America ATMs
January 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Local, money
Have you seen the new Bank Of America ATMs? They’re awesome! When it comes to deposits, they automatically count your cash, as well as scan in your checks for you. This involves a lot less mess has the potential to be a lot more accurate. I made a couple of deposits when they converted the [...]
Tis’ the season to be frugal…
December 15th, 2008 · No Comments · money
I set out on a money saving binge last week, as the other member of this household was laid off and I realized that it would be good to save money any way possible in order to pay down debt and build some savings just in case the same thing happened to me. So, when I got [...]
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Thank you, BoA
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments · money
I never thought I’d thank a bank, I totally messed up and accidentally set my rent to be paid twice for Nov. in their Bill Pay section, and they stopped the payment (of a paper check) for free, explained the process (that the check had already been mailed and should just be torn up but [...]
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