The $25 sign up bonus from Etrade is back! This is one of the easiest free money Friday offers, but whenever it shows up it doesn’t last long. Hurry, this one expires 8/13/2008! Etrade $25 Sign Up Bonus Details The sign up is easy, it only took me about 5 minutes to apply. Here is [...]
I’ve been utilizing a tax strategy the last few years to take advantage of low tax rates. Huge deferrals and unpaid maternity leaves gave us some room in the 15% tax bracket to convert traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs, and even 401ks to Roth IRAs. Although we had to recharacterize some of it, we were [...]
Digging In Our Front Lawn As you can see from the picture above, digging up the water pipes at our house continues to be the main event this week at the DuPaix house. They found the break in the pipe under the foundation. Water was just pouring out. The good news is that we had [...]
I had a big day planned for writing. I was going to write a weeks worth of posts for My Dollar Plan and Kids and Money. Instead, my house was a revolving door of subcontractors and city workers getting ready to dig up our front lawn. Running Water We were on vacation for two weeks [...]
Photo: Cubicle Panorama by Kyle and Kelly Adams Now that I’ve settled into my decision to quit my job, I’m making sure that I’m accounting for all the money that I’m giving up. Besides a salary and benefits like insurance, there’s often many monetary benefits for working in the corporate world. I started making a [...]
