Archive for May, 2007

What would you do with a sudden windfall?

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

It’s interesting to listen to people discuss sudden windfalls and what they decide to do with that money.  A common amount of money people inherit or suddenly come into via lawsuit, insurance, etc, is $100k.  I’m not sure why.  It just seems to be a number that I’ve heard a lot.
Setting aside the emotional baggage [...]

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A Little Time Out

Monday, May 14th, 2007

I need a time out.  I won’t be posting very regularly this month because I have a family medical crisis to deal with in addition to work really wearing me out.  Since I only have so much energy to go around, something has to give for a little while.  This would be it.
It’s been a [...]

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Piggybacking on the Good Credit of Others

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

I’ve heard about this for a while but now it’s taken an interesting twist.
Piggybacking on good credit is when a person with good credit adds an authorized user to their credit card, not to extend them the ability to use that credit card but to allow that authorized user to gain from the good credit of the account holder.
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