New for 2010 – Rollover to Roth IRA conversions »

This may not be of value to very many, but for those few it may be VERY valuable. For those with a “traditional” IRA or a “rollover” IRA, you may be one of the people that its VERY valuable for.

Will that be credit or debit? »

I realized a few years ago that the best way to get out of credit card debt was to stop using credit cards. So I put them all away, and started using my debit card for everything. This actually had another advantage beyond just keeping my debt down.

The week in review »

I’ve been pretty busy this week so I haven’t made any posts. But I wanted to give a quick update on a few things going on, so I will just touch on them all quickly.

I took some photos for an upcoming article. I think people will enjoy this one.
Thanks to the advice from livingoffdividends.com, [...]

Do the minimum when it comes to retirement »

So that’s the minimum. If you do these two things, you will be way ahead of most other Americans, and much better off when it comes time to retire. If you have any questions about anything in the article, feel free to post them in the comments, and I will get back to you with an answer.

How could I have forgotten Ford? »

I was reminded this morning, that when I went thru last week’s update on my stock holdings, that I left out one of the purchases that I had the most confidence in working out over the long run. Ford! I bought shares of Ford back on June 11th for a little bit [...]

My current financial holdings »

I’m not obligated by the SEC to declare what my holdings are, but I do enjoy doing it from time to time, just to track publicly how I am doing. I freely admit my losers when I have them, and try and state my winners ahead of time, so that I am on the [...]