Each week, I share my favorite posts for the week. Here is the weekly roundup for Feb 26th -Mar 3rd: My Favorite Posts of the Week: Karl at Cult of Money wrote about Lifestyle trade-offs – Hurray for diabetes? Emily at Evolving Personal Finance discussed the urge to spend in Do You Ever Just Give...
A New Generation of Money Management
Author: Thomas Jones (Thomas Jones)
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Personal and Blog Goals for 2012
Personal Goals Get accepted to the Tepper School of Business (Carnegie Mellon) and the Katz School of Business (University of Pittsburgh) and enroll in one of the programs in the Fall of 2012 (August) Start creating detailed budgets and track all of my spending on a monthly basis. I started tracking my spending when I...
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The Saver’s Credit: Do You Qualify?
My girlfriend asked me to help her with her taxes this year because it was the first time she had a job paying any substantial wages. At the end of the year, she was curious how much she would get back as a refund, so I used one of the calculators online to come up...
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Weekly Roundup #1
Favorite Posts of the Week: JT at MoneyMamba discusses his favorite metric to evaluate a business – CROIC Justin at Money Is The Root wrote about why Education is the Key to Success. I completely a agree and am a big proponent of graduate degrees. Andrea at So Over Debt wrote a post about Getting...
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Building a Grow Light Stand
It’s the time of the year that I start my vegetables by seed indoors. I have an indoor grow light that I use to grow my plants for a few months before transplanting them outside. I always start my plants by seed because I like to have full control and grow the varieties that I...
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Gen Y Finances Joined the Yakezie Challenge
This is my second blog, so I know the benefits of the Yakezie community and really enjoyed supporting everybody involved with Yakezie! With that in mind, I decided that I would join Gen Y Finances in the Yakezie challenge. If you’re not familiar with the Yakezie challenge, it is a challenge to get your blog...
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January 2012 Personal Balance Sheet
Below is a look at my personal balance sheet as of January 31, 2012. This is the template that I will use every month for my blog posts. I will likely have more details on my spending and income starting with my March 2012 balance sheet. The balance sheet could have some changes to it...
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Welcome To My Blog!
Hi Everyone! I’m Dave and this is my first post at my new blog Gen Y Finances. This is actually the second blog that I started. I started a blog back in February of 2011, but decided to sell it mid-year because of some personal problems and time constraints. However, I’m back and ready to...