Around the PF Blogosphere: April 16, 2007

Apr 16, 2007 Sun

Hope you find the following articles  worth reading:

  • My Personal Fiance Odyssey wonders if buying a more expensive house is a smart financial move, I asked myself the same question when I wrote Uncle Sam a big check yesterday
  • Everybody Loves Your Money lists top 13 money saving ideas of all time, including “Eat one meal a day” ??
  • Free Money Finance disagrees with some of the money-wasting ideas found on Yahoo. When you buy in bulk, are you actually saving money?
  • Get Rich Slick was annoyed by some online bank security features and so was I. Last time I was trying to make an transaction from my IGoBanking account from my work computer and failed twice because I couldn’t answer the three security questions. I eventually gave up my online access won’t be frozen. Now it seems every financial institution requires a bunch of security questions and offers to “remember” the computer you use to access your account so you don’t have to answer those questions every time. But can you remember them after one month, three month, or half a year? One time I also had to call TreasuryDirect to reset my password :( (.
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3 Responses to “Around the PF Blogosphere: April 16, 2007”

  1. Hazzard |  Apr 17, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    Thanks for the mention. Just trying to add a little humor to personal finance……. :)

  2. Tomaste |  Apr 17, 2007 at 1:15 pm

    In regard to your password problems. Use a Password database! As a sysadmin for a global company, I have over a hundred accounts to keep track of. In my personal life I know the bad idea it is to use the same password for any two accounts. So I started using KeePass. Its a free password database program. Check it out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeePass

    It has an autotype feature so that you dont even have to type your passwords once they are in the database.

    Because you now have the “Keys to the kingdom” in one place, you should keep a backup updated at all times. You can easily do this by downloading Microsoft’s free SyncToy software.

    I keep a synced copy of my encrypted password database on my Main computer at home, a USB flash drive (on my key ring) and my computer at work.

  3. The Sun |  Apr 18, 2007 at 3:09 pm

    Hazzard: I feel that as we have more and more accounts, it becomes a headache just to manage those passwords and security questions. There was once when I forgot the password, I was asked to answer three out of a dozen security questions (it asked me to select three questions that I chose when I setup the password and answer them). It’s just a pain.

    Tomaste: Thanks for KeePass and SyncToy idea. I have downloaded the programs and will give them a try on my home computer. I don’t have a lot of problems with my home computer because my Firefox browser remembers most of my passwords (I am not sure if I should do that). The problem occurs when I use other computers. If you carry your passwords with you, what happens if you lost the flash drive? I don’t know if I want to do that, but I definitely need a backup.