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Working Student’s View of Personal Finance and Frugal Living

Archive for March, 2008

My Husband Saved Us Money on Car Insurance

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Photo Credit: cervus We didn’t switch to GEICO and it took longer than 15 minutes, but thanks to a phone call we saved money. My husband called Progressive to inform them of our move. He had to be switched a few [...]

Discrimination in Mortgage Lending

Photo Credit:  Fabio Dual Income No Kids had an article based on a book published regarding race and poverty. Wow, that’s a big topic that could fill its on site. James reviewed the books thoughts and summarized it. In closing James remarked: So, it seems that lower wealth in African-American and Hispanic families has less to do [...]

The Cost of Moving to a New City

I finished my first day at my new job and it was hectically fun. It’s an adjustment as it is a smaller company, but I like the idea that I’ll be cross-trained. As I mentioned before, I’d look at how much the move has cost us. I was a bit surprised at the amount. Some expenses [...]

We moved!!

Photo Credit: RBerteig The move from one state to another went (relatively) smooth. We currently have the kitchen done, the living room decent, and our bedroom functional. It took a few hours spread over 2 days to load the truck. I felt good because we able to donate three bags of stuff. There was one casualty [...]

Disconnecting/Connecting Utilities

Photo Credit:  Steve Keys Things are moving along. So far, so good.  I just finished getting our utilities set up between the old apartment and the new one.  Good news is that for the new place we do not need a deposit for electricity. There’s a $17 connection fee. Our old power company will send a [...]