Author Archive
Reducing The Cable Bill Part I: HDTV
The following is a reprint of a post that I made from my old blog Getting Out Of The Poorhouse: To find out why, see here.
*****************************************************************************************************************
*****************************************************************************************************************
I love TV, I love the internet. I love HDTV, I love broadband. I love them so much I throw a ridiculous sum at them every month, $140.65 to be […]
Want to Save Money? Don’t Buy the Sunday Paper
The following is a reprint of a post that I made from my old blog Getting Out Of The Poorhouse: To find out why, see here.
*****************************************************************************************************************
*****************************************************************************************************************
Can’t get by without the paper? Fine. At least don’t look at the ads. Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA(RIP). These were the things that I looked forward to in the Sunday […]
Weekend Project…Light Bulb replacement.
The following is a reprint of a post that I made from my old blog Getting Out Of The Poorhouse: To find out why, see here.
*****************************************************************************************************************
*****************************************************************************************************************
Pay of debt. Save money. Reduce your expenses. Seeming as I’m probably the last pf blogger on the planet that still uses regular light bulbs, I felt it was time […]
What can you do with $5000 a Second?
The following is a reprint of a post that I made from my old blog Getting Out Of The Poorhouse: To find out why, see here.
*****************************************************************************************************************
*****************************************************************************************************************
Stumbled upon this interesting site that is detailing the cost of the war in Iraq. Using my own ’scientific’ method of counting (One Mississippi…Two Mississippi) the war in Iraq costs approximately […]
Money Blunders…TV Edition
The following is a reprint of a post that I made from my old blog Getting Out Of The Poorhouse: To find out why, see here.
*****************************************************************************************************************
*****************************************************************************************************************
If you’ve read my post about my goals for the next 12 months, you
would’ve noticed my fondness for HDTV and that I pay for both cable and satellite(obviously this needs to change, and […]
Introducing Money Blunders.
The following is a reprint of a post that I made from my old blog Getting Out Of The Poorhouse: To find out why, see here.
*****************************************************************************************************************
*****************************************************************************************************************
What are money blunders? These are tales of financial short-sightedness on my part where I could’ve made different choices that would’ve made a huge difference in my bottom line. They […]
My Financial Goals for the Next 12 Months
The following is a reprint of a post that I made from my old blog Getting Out Of The Poorhouse. To find out why, see here.
*****************************************************************************************************************
*****************************************************************************************************************
Time to get started. The following is a list of goals that I would like to accomplish within the next year. I understand it’s what financially responsible adults would do […]
Tax Time - Out of Sight, Out of Mind.
Before I turned over a new leaf I used to put off filing my taxes for as long as possible. Then making a mad dash on April 15 or whenever the deadline happens to fall on that year. After a frenzied day of getting everything organized, itemized and printesized (not a real word but it […]
What’s In A Name?
www.gettingoutofthepoorhouse.com
Ever heard of it? I have. How? Because I made it. The vision and goal if very similar to Finance Habits. The difference? Finance Habits is easy to remember, Getting Out Of The Poor House? Not so much.
Here is a link from Daily Blog Tips talking about characteristics of good domain names. The things that stuck out […]
How Long Does It Take To Unlearn Bad Financial Habits?
How Long Does It Take To Unlearn Bad Financial Habits? I guess I should have named the site UnlearnBadFinanancialHabits.com but that would just be too long. But anyway I digress. Just type in the the above post title in Google and it will show a ton of pages telling you exactly how to do so. […]