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I put together a debt repayment calculator tonight. You can download it here (link). I’m sure there are infinite calculators available on the internet, but I enjoyed the modelling exercise. Yellow cells are inputs. Grey cells are calculations. I’m not really sure the demographics of this blog’s readers, but I suspect that most of you … Read more Debt Repayment Calculator
The first two quarters of 2020 are behind us. Good riddance! It’s been about 9 months since I last did an audit of the BoA’s credit card strategy and I was curious to see how it was going so I ran the numbers on the past 6 month of spending. Here are the highlights: Cash … Read more Another BoA Efficiency Post
Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches Some interesting discussion on racism in the US: Trevor Noah (20 min video) John Oliver (33 min video) Tulsa Massacre (9 min video) Ted Radio Hour interview with scholar Clint Smith(52 min audio) All Around Champion 11-part TV series in which they gathered 10 top … Read more Financial Update – June 2020
With the chaos in the country/world right now, I acknowledge that everything I could write about on this silly blog is entirely inconsequential. A few days ago it seemed to me that society was on the verge of disintegrating: Racial tensions are high following the recorded murder of George Floyd at the hands of police. … Read more Why I love RSS readers
Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches Due to my lack of bike commuting, I haven’t listened to my usual podcasts this month. Consequently, my recommendation list is quite stingy this month. Also, my lack of bike commuting (and lack of climbing 3 days/week) has turned me into a sedentary individual. I’m … Read more Financial Update – May 2020
Succinct Version of the Blog Post (TL;DR): If you have a high deductible plan: and haven’t hit your deductible (and are thus price sensitive) and have an ailment that can be treated via telemedicine Then this is a worthwhile tool that helped us out recently: https://www.goodrx.com/treatment. This blog post is also worth reading: https://www.goodrx.com/blog/telemedicine-true-cost-and-telehealth-price-comparison-chart/. … Read more GoodRx Telemedicine Tool (& K Health Review)