Daily Archives: November 17, 2008

$$: A No-Spend Day

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 17, 2008
Another glo­ri­ous no-spend day. I did get ready to spend, how­ever; I trans­ferred $200 from my WaMu sav­ings account into my WaMu check­ing account and set up an auto­matic stock buy through Share­builder.  Tomor­row Share­builder should buy $196 dollar’s worth of GE stock (and charge me a $4.00 fee).  To pay for the stock pur­chase, Share­builder [...]
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Burdened by Parents; Thwarted by Banks

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 17, 2008
A quick back his­tory:  In Decem­ber ’07, my mom decided to sell her house and move across the coun­try to live with my youngest sis­ter, her hus­band, and their three chil­dren.  In mid-January she put her house up for sale and it sold almost imme­di­ately.  She closed on the house in early March.  Since her [...]
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An Argument Against Automatic Payments

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 17, 2008
I’m famil­iar with the argu­ments for auto­mated bill pay­ments and I under­stand the appeal.  How­ever, I feel there are com­pelling rea­sons to NOT make auto­matic pay­ments.  Here we go: It can, and has, been argued that auto­matic pay­ments help save time by elim­i­nat­ing the need to phys­i­cally pay bills and save money by elim­i­nat­ing the risk of [...]
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