From the monthly archives:

December 2009

New Year’s Resolutions Suck How About Setting Goals and Measuring Them?

December 31, 2009
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Alright that’s a harsh statement but looking back on your previous “resolutions” how many of those would you say that you actually obtained? How do you know? That’s the problem a New Year’s resolution is typically something to the effect of “I’m going to lose weight in 2010″ or maybe “I’m going to pay off [...]

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Year End Finance and Tax Tips

December 29, 2009
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Alright you’ve got two days left to wrap up your 2009 personal finances.  Here are some things you might want to take a look at before 2010 kicks off.  Make a Year End Donation.  I don’t like to give with the sole purpose of reducing your tax burden but this is one of the best [...]

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Merry Christmas – My Personal Story

December 24, 2009
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First and foremost I wanted to wish all of my visitors and readers a very Merry Christmas and thank you for making this such a wonderful year. And now I wanted to share something uniquely personal to me that occurred to me 17 years ago today. It was Christmas Eve and I had gone over [...]

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Free Gift Wrapping Using Unconventional Materials

December 21, 2009
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Let’s face it, we all forget wrapping paper or don’t want to go the expense of purchasing yet another roll of ugly paper with a Bizarro world view of Santa and his reindeer.  Here at FiscalGeek labs we’ve been working on some inventive ideas for covering your gifts.  Notice I said covering, those may appeal [...]

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45 Days to Debt Freedom How We’ll Raise $8572.91

December 17, 2009
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My wife and I sat down this week and decided rather than hoping we could end our debt snowball sometime in February that we should just bust it and complete it by the end of January. The problem is after this months extra payments and what not we need to come up with $8572.91 to [...]

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You Need a Budget (YNAB) 3.0 Personal Finance Software Review

December 15, 2009
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Just yesterday You Need a Budget 3.0 (Open Beta) was released into the wild so I upgraded immediately. I know it’s sad, but it was almost as if I got an early Christmas present. I use YNAB Pro almost on a daily basis and have for about a year solid. It’s worked great for me [...]

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It’s Quiet Around Here

December 13, 2009

Hey my regular readers. I want to let you know that yes I’ve been a little quiet lately not least of which is due to standard Christmas time busyness. Also I’ve got a lot going at my day job that’s taking most of my waking time and the rest goes to my family. I’ll be [...]

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The Freddie Mac Relief Refinance Mortgage a Journey to Lower Payments

December 7, 2009
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If you’ve been around FiscalGeek for a while you may remember back to a post I wrote in the early days on the Making Home Affordable program and my pending refinance. Well things went horribly trying to utilize the program and I eventually abandoned the whole process and vowed to stop doing business with Wells [...]

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