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Death and Taxes

I finished my tax returns last night. I ended up using TurboTax, and it definitely made the process simple. I’ll probably use it again next year, even though I anticipate that next year, my return will be even easier, with only having to file one state return instead of two. I plan [...]

Rate Chasing

I have always said that I wouldn’t chase rates when it came to high yield online savings accounts. I have an account with ING that I use for both my long-term savings and my day to day account, as well as bill-pay and I (luckily) opened a CD with them just before the rates dropped. [...]

The spammers are costing me money!

I have text messaging on my phone, but I don’t have an unlimited plan. I pay 10 cents to send a text and 2 cents every time I receive one. I’ve done the math, and at this point, I just don’t send and receive enough text messages to make the unlimited plan worth [...]

YNAB? INAB!

Inspired by a few PF bloggers, I decided to take a look at my 2007 expenses as a whole. Of course, this is something I will be doing in the next few weeks when I finally sit down to do my taxes, but this time, the purpose was to see where my money was [...]

Carnival is up!

Check out this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted by Green Panda Treehouse. My post about hidden fees is featured! There are a lot of great links, which I am still perusing. There are so many wise Personal Finance bloggers out there, and the Carnival is a great way to find them.