I love watching the Olympics, especially seeing Michael Phelps get his 8th gold medal. Find out how much he can expect to earn from all the gold medals. Not only is he a superstar swimmer, but his swimming is inspiring others to get out of debt. Housing Forclosure Hell: Houses Selling For $1. In addition […]
I focused on early retirement my whole adult life. Whether it was hanging out at the Early Retirement Forums the Retire Early Home Page, the old Motley Fool Retire Early forum or the Vanguard Diehards Forum, contributing crazy amounts to our retirement plan, managing our asset allocation, or creating retirement checklists, I always had one […]
When was the last time that you read your health insurance policy, and I mean, really sat down and read it cover to cover? I happened to read the changes section to our policy and found they had added some new benefits this year. I found that our insurance company will reimburse us for many […]
Free Money From the U.S. Mint
Posted byWell not exactly, but it’s pretty close! It does require a little bit of work though! (And the free money is actually from your credit card… but the U.S. Mint makes it possible!) Earn Credit Card Rewards by Buying Cash I’m guessing that most of you by now have a cash rewards credit card. If […]
First, an update on our digging adventure. I had a dream that the bill was $30,000! Yikes. I hope that was just a dream. We had the pipe replaced, they poured new concrete for sidewalks and our front stoop, replaced all the landscaping and replaced the sod. As of Friday, our house and lawn are […]
Back to School Savings Challenge
Posted byWhat? It’s time to go back to school already? What happened to summer? That’s what I wanted to ask members of The Life Skills Network when they suggested a back to school series in early August! We have a law here that school cannot start until after Labor Day. So school is still a long […]
Etrade $25 Sign Up Bonus
Posted byThe $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 Out of Dirt and Debt
Posted byDigging 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 […]
Digging Up The Water Pipes at Our House
Posted byI 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 […]