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Daily tasteeness (2008-02-06)
ZTD Habit 1: Collect | Zen Habits I like his reasoning for going analog in capturing input. In the last week, I’ve misplaced two styluses for my PDA, rendering it unhelpful in capturing data. A stack of index cards would take up about the same amount of space and be less frustrating. Kids’ how-to-cheat videos – Boing Boing Wow — I never put this much energy into cheating, even when I did cheat back in early high school. I always just cheated out of laziness — I didn’t feel like doing the homework, so I’d copy the work. The discussion after the article is fun, too. The Pros and Cons…
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Daily tasteeness (2008-02-05)
8bitrocket.com: Mid-Core Gamer Manifesto I’m totally a mid-core gamer. I balk at $60 price tags on games, and I refuse to play games where I can’t save when I damn well please.
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Daily tasteeness (2008-01-23)
The list is short today, but it’s a lengthy read if you read the discussion in the comments. » Rent Forever, Don’t Buy A Home on Blueprint for Financial Prosperity This blag challenges the idea that you should buy a house as soon as possible to avoid “throwing your money away”. Michael was the first to really plant that piece of conventional wisdom in my mind, and I’ve been interested in thoughts on the issue.
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Budgeting tools
Continuing with last week’s post dishing up the skinny on my budgeting past, I wanted to write just a bit this week about the budgeting tool I’m using now, per Better Budget Challenge # 2: Choose your budgeting tool. I mentioned back at the beginning of the month that I was using PearBudget. That wasn’t a good fit for me. A week of that showed that. I couldn’t easily see my spending the way I wanted to. So I downloaded the old spreadsheet form of PearBudget and have been using it. I like it. As I put in my spending, I can see through simple columns and rows how much…
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Daily tasteeness (2008-01-20)
Organize & Prepare: Do Your Taxes Quickly | My Dollar Plan The title says it all. This seems like a good way to get organized to make taxes simpler. Single Guy Money: Save Money on Auto Insurance I just ripped Progressive a new one for how much I’ve been overcharged for my car insurance. If you have the money to do so, Single Money Guy has some tips to get discounts on insurance. Time To Call The Credit Card Company “If you are trying to get out of credit card debt, you might want to think about giving your credit card company a call.” Get your rates reduced, increase your…