Monthly Archives: August 2008

You’ve got a friend in Compound Interest

Posted on August 15, 2008 by

If you invest $100 a month for the next 40 years you will have invested $48,000 by the end of it. After 40 years of compound interest that $100 a month would be $1,176,477.25!!! (This calculation was done with the … Continue reading →

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Get Paid with Online Surveys

Posted on August 14, 2008 by

I know of many college students (or people with open schedules) who are on a mission to find odd jobs periodically.  I have your next opportunity for you.  Online Surveys. This is courtesy of Hustler Money Blog.  He found ten … Continue reading →

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Do You Dream?

Posted on August 13, 2008 by

This is unlike a usual post of mine.  But do you take the time in your day that you can sit and dream? Tony Morgan has a book coming out called “Killing Cockroaches.”  He has a cartoon ad explaining the … Continue reading →

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You get to CHOOSE

Posted on August 12, 2008 by

We love choices.  No matter what we are doing in life we want some options. You work really hard in high school so you can have options on where to go to college.   You work really hard in college to … Continue reading →

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Investing

Posted on August 11, 2008 by

I have recently been doing maintenance to my “investment portfolio.”  It is rather simple at this point, however, I am looking at funds and trying to do further research for the Kakaras family investments. Every once in a while I … Continue reading →

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The 08 08 08 Party

Posted on August 8, 2008 by

Yes that is right. Today is the day. It happens like ONCE EVERY MILLENNIA. The date is 08/08/08! I’m sure everyone is at home celebrating rather than at work so enjoy your day and on this day I have a … Continue reading →

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So Brett Favre is a Jet

Posted on August 7, 2008 by

As it has been said before, I am a huge sports fan. I soak it up. I love sports but this whole Brett Favre saga got a little ridiculous. He is officially a Jet and I am looking forward to … Continue reading →

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Envelope System

Posted on August 6, 2008 by

I had the privilege of having a financial sit-down with an extremely bright upperclassmen college student yesterday. I always love getting to look at people’s individual personal finances because it is always so interesting to see where people are and … Continue reading →

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It Takes Two

Posted on August 5, 2008 by

I received a question that I wanted to share my thoughts on: My husband and I have around $50,000 of credit card debt. We have been married for 5 years. The only other debt is the house. Our household income … Continue reading →

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Put it on Autopilot – Followup

Posted on August 4, 2008 by

I have received some really good feedback on the automatic savings post from last week. It was great hearing some stories of people that this is really really working for. A buddy of mine, Brady, sent me a message that … Continue reading →

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