having budgeted $300 (and being prepared for up to $400) for the battery replacement, i was unprepared when the total for needed repairs (turns out i was right to ask them to check my rotors and pads — being right sucks) came to $1200. that difference is, like, my whole budgeted payment towards paying off […]
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Since I’m not really much into the whole Jesus-in-a-cave resurrection thing (though i do like bunnies), and this has been by and large a financeapalooza weekend, I decided to go for the three-day trifecta and make myself a nice shiny budget and look over my free annual credit reports. I live a life of wild […]
2006 taxes: done and done! plus, added bonus: despite my fears that due to changing jobs my tax withholdings were going to be screwy (in a bad way), i did not have to write a fat check to the irs! HOORAY FOR NO FAT CHECK WRITING! (especially hooray since due to the checking account madness […]
quicken automatically downloads all my statement information from my various accounts each morning. this morning i noticed it was reporting a transaction on my second, forced-to-get bank one checking account. “hm,” i thought, “that’s strange, since i certainly haven’t done anything.” turns out? they just deducted $22.95 of my $25 balance to buy me some […]
so i have had my checking account for a long time. it used to be at wingspan bank, which was one of the all-electronic banks back 8 years ago or whatever, which was nice because i pretty much never have to go to an actual bank to do anything. i could transact whatever i needed […]
