Old School Finances – Day 2

Thursday, 2 April 2009, 16:53 | Category : PF - Banking, PF - Goals, PF - Saving Money
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April 2
I don’t have any cash yet as it takes 3 days for a paper check to clear the bank. Somehow I forgot the days like today. Knowing you have money but cannot access it while watching the gas gauge getting closer to empty. I do not normally carry cash with me so I have [...]

Old School Finances – Day 1 (March 31st)

Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 16:27 | Category : PF - Banking, PF - Saving Money
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For a over a month, I have been really losing a grip on my finances. If you would ask me how much money I have I would not know. All of it was in the bank and I was so busy with the new granddaughter and work that I just could not keep up with [...]

Banks loose $26.2 Billion

Monday, 2 March 2009, 8:40 | Category : PF - Banking
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Banks lost a combined total of $26.2 billion in the fourth quarter, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, the largest quarterly loss since the FDIC started to tally the statistic in 1984.
Just my 2 cents. Jim @ ChangeJarSavings.com
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Tracking your Finances? What Works?

Monday, 12 January 2009, 16:25 | Category : PF - Banking, PF - Debt, PF - Goals, PF - Saving Money
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I used to track our finances very closely. However the last few years I have had problems keeping up. With my finances a mess I had to try something.
I used Quicken from about 1995 through 2001. Starting out with a version that came with a Macintosh, I then bought a PC and bought a PC [...]

Friday Roundup

Friday, 25 January 2008, 14:54 | Category : PF - Banking, PF - Debt
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Need a will? How about online wills?
Virgin gets into banking in the US by putting it between you and your friends/relatives.

Married people need to make sure this does not happen to them.
Just my 2 cents. Jim @ ChangeJarSavings.com
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