Money Reasons Weekly Review
My Favorite Top 3 PF Blogger Posts For This Week:
- SeeJaneGetRich - has a great article on her Roth IRA contribution for 2010. Her question was why couldn’t the transaction fees be separate from the Roth Account? See her article from more information, it’s called 2010 Roth IRA Contribution – Check
- Financial Samurai - Financial Samurai had a week of homeruns! Just go to his site and read the past weeks work (including his guest poster Investor Junkie) I’m sure you’ll be pleased with the content.
- WellHeeledBlog - does a wonderful piece on the cost of drinking wine at restaurants! Check out her article called: How Much Is That Wine In The Restaurant?)
My Favorite Post From MoneyReasons This Week:
- My favorite post this week is Creating Alternative Income Milestones
Goals Status Update:
Off to a slow start on Goal #1: 2010 Resolution #1, Losing Weight While Saving Money, I only lost 2 pounds this week.
| Date | Weight/lbs. | Loss/Gain | ||||
| 01/02/10 | 235 | 0 | ||||
| 01/09/10 | 234 | 1 | ||||
| 01/16/10 | 232 |
2 |
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| 01/23/10 | ||||||
| 01/30/10 | ||||||
| Total Loss for the Month | : | 3 | ||||
As for my other goals (#2,#3)
- 2010 Resolution #2, Stop Being a Pack Rat: I’m still throwing stuff away.
- 2010 Resolution #3, Maximizing Who I Am: I cleaned up a mess I made instead of calling facilities (small but meaningful).
This week was a stressful week at work, we had a lot of hurdles to clear this week.
Just read that you will be financially free as of Feb this year! That is awesome! Don’t know how old you are but since the kids are still small it leads me to believe that you aren’t at or near the typical “retirement” age. Congratulations. Definitely spend the time with kids (they grow sooooooo fast). But maybe you can have your cake and eat it too — maybe blogging over time will develop into a blog income.
Continued success to you ………..valentina
Thanks,
I’m just debt free, so I don’t have any credit card, automobile or mortgage debt. I’m trying to develop an alertnative income stream, but that won’t start until March 1st.
To be truly financially independent would be great, but my investments don’t generate enough money for us yet.
Thanks for the mention! Hope you had a great weekend.
@WellHeeled
You too! Great post on Wine markup costs!
I knew the markup on wine was high, but I never realized it was that high!!!
@Money Reasons
THanks for the shout out. I wish our Roth contribution wouldn’t get cut down with transaction fees because $5k is already a small amount to contribute.
@Jane,
I think that was a great point that you brought up. I never really thought about the transaction fees eating away at the contribution amount or trying to separate those fees.