From the monthly archives:

October 2009

24 Ways to Help you Buy Cheap Used Books

October 29, 2009
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Books are a guilty pleasure of mine.  Frankly I don’t feel that guilty about it, most everything I’ve ever learned has come from a book or augering in spectacularly in a heap of flames and rubble.  The book route is much less painful.  To that end I love a good book that I can refer [...]

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Personal Finance Doesn’t Absolve Personal Responsibility

October 28, 2009
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I’ve noticed a theme I seem to keep harping on in my latest posts where I keep whining (let’s call it what it is) about various companies or entities. I just want to clear something up right now that I first believe in Personal Responsibility. In my own life my stupid financial mistakes and poor [...]

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You Need a Budget 10% Coupon Redemption Code

October 24, 2009
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The kind folks at You Need a Budget (YNAB) have offered up a 10% off coupon code to Fiscal Geek readers. Head on over to YNAB and download their free trial and if you purchase it before 11/1/09 enter in the coupon code of “fiscalgeek” (without the quotations) upon checkout. I believe if you purchase [...]

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Reader Help Needed for an Upcoming Post on College

October 15, 2009

Howdy readers I need your help. I’m writing a post on the value of a 4 year college education and would love your feedback. I’ve made a 9 question survey that should take you roughly 5 minutes max to fill out. If you have graduated college I’d love your feedback. The survey is completely confidential [...]

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Quicken 2010 Personal Finance Software Review

October 13, 2009
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Intuit released it’s latest version of it’s flagship product Quicken 2010 on October 11th 2009 so being the geek I am had to acquire a copy for review and see if it’s worth the expense both for myself and my readers.  The sad state of affairs is that as far as the personal finance software [...]

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Principal vs. Prepaying, Our Debt Snowball and How Wachovia Stole $8.03

October 8, 2009
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As you may be aware my wife and I are working on our debt snowball and we all we have left is our VW and our mortgage, woot!   Above is our current progress not including the mortgage.  Incidentally if you’d like to be able to graph your own debt snowball or anything else for web [...]

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Layaway: a Formal Delayed Gratification Program?

October 7, 2009
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More and more layaway plans from retailers like Sears and Kmart are making a comeback largely because of the recent economic downturn and credit worries.  So that begs the question is layaway a good alternative to just putting the purchase on your credit card?  Let’s dig into the details of the layaway program (we’ll use [...]

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As the Temperature Drops Watch Your Tire Pressure: Frugal Fix

October 6, 2009
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My truck reminded me this morning that colder evening temperatures means the loss of tire pressure. The cold causes your tires to contract and you’ll lose about 1 pound of air pressure for every 10 degree Fahrenheit drop in temperature. My vehicles have TPMS or Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems on them to warn you when [...]

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Google Android Personal Finance App Review

October 5, 2009
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My current cell phone is an iPhone 3GS but recently I had the opportunity to try out a Google Android based phone the older G1 on T-Mobile. I’ve had just about every flavor of Windows Mobile phone which were great but they just couldn’t touch the iPhone’s interface, and app availability. I was eager to [...]

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