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JLP at AllFinancialMatters is hosting a Question of the Day Marathon involving about 20 different sites. Today’s host is Single Ma’s Fabulous Financials and her question is:
In terms of your annual gross salary, what percentage do you save? Are you happy with that amount or do you think you could do better?
So, go check out the site and [...]

JLP at AllFinancialMatters is hosting a Question of the Day Marathon involving about 20 different sites. Today’s host is Free Money Finance and his question is:
Which is more important to financial success: saving money (spending less than you earn through cost cutting) or making your income as high as possible (earning more money)?
So, go check out the site [...]

JLP at AllFinancialMatters is hosting a Question of the Day Marathon involving about 20 different sites. Today’s host is Experiments in Finance and her question is:
How many credit cards do you have, and what’s their combined credit limit?
So, go check out the site and leave your response.

JLP at AllFinancialMatters is hosting a Question of the Day Marathon involving about 20 different sites. Today is my day to host. So here’s the question:
What was the last thing that you splurged on that you didn’t really need?
Actually, my answer will change after this weekend to a brand new shiny iPod (my birthday present). [...]

JLP at AllFinancialMatters is hosting a Question of the Day Marathon involving about 20 different sites. Today’s host is Caustic Musings and her question is:
What is the weekly average cost per person for food in your household, including groceries, snacks, and dining out?
So, go check out the site and leave your response. FYI: I will [...]

JLP at AllFinancialMatters is hosting a Question of the Day Marathon involving about 20 different sites. He took the first day and his question is:
If your budget required you to give up something that you like because you just didn’t have enough money to cover your expenses, what would that be?
So, go check out the [...]

As indicated in my prior post, we’ve been without power for several days due to storms. We got our power back last night (finally) and began testing everything in the house. We realized that our satellite dish was out and my wife called DirecTV.
DirecTV was not only friendly, but almost apologetic about the outage. They [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts. We’ve been affected by a large power outage and still don’t have power. Until we get it back, there won’t be any posts as I am dealing with issues related to the outage at lunchtime when I normally post articles.
Hopefully, I’ll return to normal posting next week.

I rarely pimp products straight up on this site, but anyone that has a Windows computer should have the WaPo’s Security Fix blog on their reading lists. The blog keeps up on the world of computer security, but also lists almost every security update to every widely distributed piece of software. For instance, last night [...]