I am not in the market for a CD right now, but if I were, I would certainly be heading to PenFed. PenFed CD rates, even on short term side are looking strong. The 2 year at 1.41% is really nice. Actually, it bums me out a little since I had to settle for a …
Let’s talk about envy. I’m not talking the good kind that motivates you to save more like every time I read about someone maxing their 401k, Roth, and contributing to another traditional IRA or brokerage account. I can do the first two, but the others elude due to unfortunate income constraints. But, that kind of …
I was having a discussion over on Debt Blag that made me want to take a look at some of the trends in my net worth since I started calculating them. As you can see in the LONG table below, 2013 has been a really good year from a net worth point of view. In …
The following is a guest post brought to you by one of our partners. Don’t Forget About Your Future Life is hard isn’t it? It seems like the older I get, the more I wish I was a child again. There are absolutely no responsibilities and everything is a game. Once you graduate from college, …
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Welcome to the Q4 2013 government shutdown edition of Maximizing What’s in Your Wallet! As a reminder, this post is for all the credit card deadbeats out there looking to maximize cash back rewards. So, if you never carry a balance on your credit cards, have them set to auto-pay in full every month, and want …
How can you save money by spending money? It seems pretty counterintuitive, but there are a few things I purchased in just the last week, that I expect will result in money savings in the long term. 1) I got lured in by an Amazon deal. I know that sounds like a bad idea, but …
In July of this year I was scrolling through my transactions on Yodlee like I commonly do to insure my wife hasn’t put another BMW on the credit card. Just kidding. I was scrolling, but I was looking for any suspicious transactions suggesting my numbers had been stolen. In doing this over about 10 years, …
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Well, if you’ve read any of my posts on here, you know I’m a numbers guy so today I’m taking slight divergence off my typical personal finance pontification to review the Fitbit Flex. Fitbit advertises itself like this: Never stop moving with Fitbit Flex. Wear this slim, stylish device all the time and get …
Damn. I have lamented and tracked what PenFed has been doing to this card for some time now. They just keep making it harder and harder to want to keep this card, but I’m really reluctant to let it go. Yesterday I got a letter stating they were going to start charging an annual fee …
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Well, I would like to say I’m surprised, but I’m not. PerkStreet is dead. I was never a huge fan of PerkStreet rewards, even when they first launched. I wrote 3 reviews back in June and July of 2010 when they launched with much fanfare (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). These were some of …
