Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 The stimulus rebate intended for the Rocket household arrived in our checking account late last week and we have began discussing plans for that money. Ultimately, the money will simply reduce our budget deficit for the year, however we want to make sure that the free money makes the greatest ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008 This is the story of how my family reached the proverbial “end of our financial rope” and how I became a personal finance blogger. Today’s post is the second in a series that will continue over the course of the next week.
Earlier this year, I shared how were were slowly ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008 At our house, we try to make extra money wherever we can. Bank bonuses and credit card bonuses made us almost $3,000 last year. A much riskier strategy, credit card arbitrage, made us another thousand dollars. I admit that making money this way is not for everyone. I don't plan ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008 Mrs. Rocket and I have separate checking accounts.
We are a single income family, but 17% of my check is directly deposited into a Chase checking account in my wife's name. For most of our marriage we had a joint checking account, but after incurring a couple of overdrafts, we decided that ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007 In order to meet our budget, my family must earn at least $400 a month from alternate sources of income. There are many sources of this income - some of which I hope to be detail in the coming year. Our #3 source of alternate income in 2007 was credit ...
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