Specifically, if it was lost tomorrow, would you know what companies you needed to call, and what the phone numbers were? Until about 5 minutes ago, I’d have said no. But, I ran across Suffering the “lost wallet syndrome” on The Happiness Project on Friday, and made a note for myself to take care of …
Category Archives: Finances
Monthly Review – May 2006
So I’ve been following the 60% rule I previously mentioned. It’s been working pretty well. This month my totals are: Committed expenses: 46.5% Irregular expenses: 7.2% Fun Money: 3.3% Long term savings: 29.8% More money into my stock purchasing account, and again, two transfers to ING. Not totally sure how I managed to run a …
“Automatic Millionaire”?
I recently bought a copy of The Automatic Millionaire. It was a good read, and much to my surprise, wasn’t full of claims to make you a millionaire overnight. In fact, it really wasn’t even about “new” information. Everyone “knows” you should put money in your retirement account. Everyone knows that the power of compounding …