As promised in my last Kibanda post, this is my review of the Walnut Frame and Mint Mattress we ordered a few weeks back. As you will recall from that post, we didn’t move our beds or mattresses to Kibanda last year, opting to save the moving cost and instead order new ones. The clear… [Continue Reading]
Tracking your holdings
Personal Capital If you have come here, read thru the Stock Series and decided the simple low-cost approach described makes sense, you are now faced with the problem of how do you get from where you are to where you want to be. That is, what do you do with all the investments you already have? How,… [Continue Reading]
Personal Capital; and how to unload your unwanted stocks and funds
Personal Capital If you have come here, read thru the Stock Series and decided the simple low-cost approach described makes sense, you are now faced with the problem of how do you get from where you are to where you want to be. That is, what do you do with all the investments you already have? How,… [Continue Reading]
Stockchoker: A look back at what your investment might have been
Back in February Mr. 1500 Days invited me to participate in his 10 Questions and a Pizza Place interview series. It was fun to do, readers seemed to enjoy it and the 1500 Days are cool folks. So of course I’ve been planning to steal the idea ever since. When I came across Todd Froemling and his newly… [Continue Reading]
YNAB: Best Place to Work Ever?
You want this: Not this: Trust me. The second hand made its agonizingly deliberate sweep. All eyes were locked to it. Ever so slowly it erased first the seconds, and then the minutes, on the plodding march to 4:45. The workers sat, bundled in their winter hats and coats, their belongings at their feet, with… [Continue Reading]
Tuft & Needle: A better path to sleep
About a decade ago and roughly a mile from where I lived at the time there was a mansion on a hill. As I don’t much care about mansions I don’t recall many of the details. I do remember a huge pool in the center of the house with columns running along the sides and… [Continue Reading]
Moto X, my new Republic Wireless Phone
Moto X, my new phone Long-term readers might recall my original review of Republic Wireless and their dreadful Defy XT phone last October. In short, I said great company to deal with, but wait until they make the Moto X phone available before you sign up. Having dealt with the Defy XT since then, that was excellent… [Continue Reading]
Betterment: a simpler path to wealth
Make it so, Mr. Data. One of the things I’ve learned in the 2.5 years I have been writing this blog is just how many people there are whose eyes begin to glaze over at the mere mention of investing. They know it is important but their mind just shuts down when the topic comes… [Continue Reading]
Republic Wireless and my $19 per month phone plan
Painting by Sergey Gusev It was a dark and stormy night.* She told me to wait. Maybe I should have listened. But I was impatient and headed to South America. The idea of remaining in touch, of having access to my email, the internet and, wonder of wonder, free international calls was not to be… [Continue Reading]