The Sun’s Financial Diary

It’s still more than a month away from the 2010 tax deadline, April 15, 2010. If you haven’t finished your tax return yet, there’s still plenty of time to get it done before the deadline, so it may be a little early to talk about tax extension. However, if for any reason that you believe [...]

Apparently, I don’t get out much. This weekend, Hubby and I decided to go out with another couple for dinner and a movie. 4 hours and $70 later I was in the car on the way home with a stunned expression on my face trying to figure out where it all went wrong.
You know, I [...]

The parallel between habits when it comes to food and money are significant. Many people reach for a cookie when they’re depressed, others for their credit card. Some celebrate with cake and sweets, still others by purchasing themselves tangible treats. If you’re an emotional spender, best for you – and your budget – to fess [...]

Ally Bank now has a new CD product, the second new product in as many month.
The CD product, called 2 Year Raise Your Rate CD, isn’t entirely because it replaces the current 2-year high-yield CD which has a yield of 2.04% APY as of March 9th. What’s new in this product is the promise that [...]

“I want (fill in the blank)!”
If you’re a parent to young children, you’ve undoubtedly heard your little one utter this phrase many times.  Plus, it probably most often occurs at some pretty crowded locales such as the grocery store or Toys ‘R Us where the level of parental shame can be at its highest.  At [...]

After the streak of 10 straight monthly increase was snapped in January, the growth of our net worth returned last month as the overall stock market recovered from January’s poor performance. Even though the gain wasn’t big enough to offset January’s market loss, it was big enough to put net worth to a new high [...]

After a quite month of February because of the winter blizzards, we are back in house-hunting again as the weather turns warmer. The market also seems to be more active now than the first two months. We went to a few open houses this weekend in our area and found a couple of nice houses. [...]

A couple of promotions this weekend.
Chase is having a promotion for its Sapphire Card with $100 bonus. Sapphire is a premier travel card with the following features:

No annual fee
Redeem Points for travel, gift cards, merchandise, cash back and more
Earn 2X Points on Airfare booked through Ultimate Rewards & 1 point for every dollar spent [...]

I think the goal of almost every single person on Earth is to go through many stages of upgrading his or her life. Remember the car you drove when you were a teenager? Well there is no way you want to drive that car foreve – heck no, you want to upgrade. From the car [...]

Is the economy finally starting to turn around? If you pay attention to what the Fed is doing, you might get the impression that the answer to that question is yes.
But it’s more important to first take a look at exactly what the Fed’s been up to. A couple of weeks ago, the [...]