Zaphod for President

I must open a Roth IRA. Only 12 days remain until my self-imposed deadline comes due. Worse still, I’ve spent this past week fighting off a rather nasty inner-ear infection. However, pain or no pain, the clock is ticking.

Just about any bank will help you setup your Roth IRA. You can also do it […]

I intended to spend my day building a fence in the backyard, but was forced inside by a thunderstorm in the early afternoon. Perhaps it is for the best: after spending a few hours playing with Neo Office spreadsheets, I have begun drafting a “master plan” in regards to my personal finances.
After a few […]

Deciding what to do with extra money is a wonderful problem to have, and one I’ve been struggling with for the past few days. Today I found a great article on the Simple Dollar which addresses this very issue.
I must be on the right track. The author agrees with each of my four financial […]

The last time I wrote about my personal finances, I included three goals. To reiterate:

Become 100% debt-free.
Save $15,000 (3-months expenses) in an emergency fund.
Create and fund a Roth IRA to the maximum allowed annual contribution.

I would like to add a fourth goal to this list:

Fix up my dump of a house.

The purpose of this post […]

A few months ago I accidentally stumbled onto the Housing Bubble Blog, and was horrified to find an entire community of people who were activley laughing at me.
Why were they laughing? Because I, like so many of my fellow Americans, had purchased a home at the height of the “housing bubble”, had rung up […]