Archive for July, 2007
Posts I Enjoyed Last Week
Ben at Money Smart Life writes about how to prepare for a layoff. I could use those tips last month when I was in the middle of an involuntary job transfer.
Jeremy at Generation X Finance continues his mid-year finance checkup series with the discussions of making investment changes and starting saving now for the holiday [...]
Staples 1 Cent Items
Not exactly the back-to-school time yet, but Staples have quite a few 1 cent items on sale starting Sunday, July 8th, including:
2-pocket paper folder with or without fasteners (#430579/430421): 1 cent
Dixon yellow No. 2 pencils, 8/pack (#676407): 1 cent
Slider pencil case, assorted colors (#599113): 1 cent
Staples manual pencil sharpener (#642388): 1 cent
Pentel RSVP ballpoint pens, [...]
Need a Loan? You Don’t Have to Go to Prosper
Just apply for this credit card and get a low rate loan till 2011.
According to FatWallet.com, the Discover More card*, one of the cards with generous rewards, is now having a promotion that offers 3.99% APR till January 2011.
From the application page, the card has a balance transfer fee of 3% of the transferred [...]
June 2007 Score Card — Part II: Passive Incomes
In addition to price appreciation, the other investment objective we have is to generate passive incomes from our investments. To that end, I have been investing quite heavily in dividend generating stocks and funds. Last year, our investments brought us more than $9,000 in interests, dividends, and capital gains. For the first half of 2006, [...]
Need Help: Credit Line Reallocation, Balance Transfer, and Credit Score
After posting an entry last week on consolidating several Chase credit cards and reallocating the credit lines to a new Chase Freedom card* in order to take advantage of the 0% balance transfer offer, I got the following comments from John regarding the practice:
When you consolidate the credit limits from various cards do you often [...]
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