Archive for January, 2007
Deal: Amazon $30 off on $99 Huggies Products
From January 1st to January 31st, Amazon has a promotion which offers $30 instant saving on checkout using coupon code HUGGIE3O. This deal is better than previous promotions that I used last year. Back then, they only gave $30 Amazon gift certificate eight weeks after the purchase. For this promotion, eligible purchases include Huggies, Pull-Ups, [...]
Posts I Enjoyed Last Week
Last week as a quite week as many people departed from their routine and headed to vacation after a busy year. For me, I didn't get any break, though it was a light week at work, and I found the following posts worth reading.
Generation X Finance has some tips on what you can do [...]
Mutual Funds Year-end Distributions
Here's a complete list of my mutual fund year-end distributions:
Symbol
Date
Dividend
Short-termcapital gain
Long-termcapital gain
Total
CSVFX
09/20/06
$0.12
$0.13
$2.51
$2.76
OAKBX
12/14/06
$0.5013
$0
$1.3081
$1.8094
TGLDX
12/15/06
$0.217
$1.122
$3.93
$5.269
PRSVX
12/18/06
$0.27
$0.25
$1.16
$1.68
PRNEX
12/18/06
$0.57
$0.34
$1.21
$2.12
TREMX
12/18/06
$0.42
$0
$1.06
$1.46
TAREX
12/20/06
$0.893
$0.062
$2.568
$3.523
DODGX
12/28/06
$0.54
$0.247
$6.405
$7.192
DODFX
12/28/06
$0.565
$0.144
$0.349
$1.18
CGMFX
12/28/06
$0.81
$0
$2.92
$3.73
Most of the funds I own distribute annually (except DODGX which distributes every quarter), with more payouts in the forms of dividend and long-term capital gain rather than short-term capital gain. The benefit of dividend and long-term gain is that they have [...]
Free Credit Report Time
For the past several years, we have been getting a copy of free credit report every 4 months (as NJ residents, we were eligible for a free report every year well before the law mandated a free credit report from all three credit agencies for everybody every 12 months). The last time I ordered a [...]
