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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
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
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)
I think that gift cards are of the devil. They are easy to lose. When I receive them as gifts, I typically sell them for a loss on Raise.com. Maybe that makes me a horrible person, but I’ll take $18 in cash over $25 to a retailer I don’t visit. I realize there’s a bit … Read more BoA + Raise Cash Back = Big Savings
I’m not a huge fan of wasting money, but my goal for the year (and life) is to let kids blow money as they see fit. My kids are the biggest fans in the world of Scooby Doo. Today, a new movie of Scooby Doo was released. Since Covid-19 has disrupted the world, the movie … Read more Digital Purchase of Movies