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How to not pay any sales tax when you shop 2007-06-17 10:40:23 When I initially bought my first car in georgia when I started medical school, I had to pay sales tax in Louisiana because i was registering my car there. I got reamed by Louisiana too many times because my tax bill for my car was almost 10 percent. Thats a few thousand dollars down the [...]
How to use shopping trends to save yourself money on everything! 2007-06-16 22:30:52 When I picked up the most recent issue of consumer reports, I found a gold mine of information on the CR Money section of the report. Their topic for the month was a calender of deals that list the various things that are on sale based on the time of the year. If [...]
Check out DINKS finance if you are a couple 2007-06-15 15:20:19 One the the things that I have to admit that my blog lacks, is the view of a newlywed couple
on finance
. These guys Miel and James have a different twist to the view on personal finance. Check
out www.dinksfinance.com
Save money by buying fruits and vegetables in season 2007-06-15 10:10:40 Recently I’ve been having the worst case of constipation. I haven’t been getting my normal dose of fiber for a few days. Sometimes, the days are just better after a good shit. Thus I wanted to write about fruits and vegetables and how you can save a little money by thinking of [...]
An idiots introduction to assets and investing. Who, what, when, where, why, and how part 1 2007-06-15 09:45:35 WHO YOU!!!
WHAT There are many ways to look at investments. Investments as related to finance include buying securities in the form of stocks or bonds. When buying stocks and bonds you can buy them in the form of common shares, mutual funds and exchange traded funds.
Shares are the easiest to understand [...]
Looking a little closer at the student loan repayment interest rates 2007-06-13 22:27:48 I find that learning about interest rates is probably one of the most boring of topics. However, to fully understand your student loans and other loans and how lenders decide what interest rates to charge, you need to understand the basis of where these numbers come from. I will explain:
Stafford Loans = End [...] Read more:little
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USA Today: Young in Debt series week 3, Saving money…how does it apply to us? 2007-06-13 10:21:58 The USA today series
young in debt is a great series of articles about five twenty somethings and discuss the various issues that affect young people in the world of money. On week 3 of the young in debt series, Saving
money becomes a issue that many people in their 20’s have trouble doing. [...] Read more:Today
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Top 10 price comparison websites that I like to use before I shop online 2007-06-12 08:13:03 For the past year, I’ve gotten to a point where I don’t buy anything unless I know that the price
i’m paying is the best price I could find. There are some great sites out there that you can use to shop for pretty much anything online
. With the expansion of the internet [...] Read more:comparison
USA Today: Young in Debt series week 1/2…how does it apply to us? 2007-06-12 07:29:53 The USA today has a wonderful 6 part series
dedicated to the finances of young people. For people like us who are recently out of school or in school still, these groups of articles may provide some important advice to use. The six part series is divided into different topics. They try [...] Read more:Today
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The Latte Factor - stop drinking your money away 2007-06-11 08:29:30 Like most professionals, we probably all drink a ton of coffee and add that to the late nights in the wards and the call nights in the ICU. I’m all for coffee when its free in the doctor’s lounge or at the nurses station but if you are the type of person that has [...] Read more:Latte
How to get free internet access anywhere you travel and how to save money on internet access at home 2007-06-09 11:38:56 When I moved to my new apartment here in Atlanta, I was glad that my complex had free wifi in the clubhouse and pool area. But it sucked that whenever I got into my room, the connection was gone. Because of my newfound hobby of blogging about personal finance, I actually invested in [...]
The best online brokers by consumer reports and how/why sign up 2007-06-08 19:13:59 On the june 2007 issue of consumer reports, the “money lab” evaluated 19 major online
brokers that are accessible to investors using a standard webbrowser.
consumer reports gives each an overall score, and categorizes things such as trading, minimun trade fee, mutual funds, NTF funds, banking and asset management, research and education, and customer support. [...]
“Outsourcing your Life”- awesome article on yahoo finance 2007-06-07 10:22:09 Last thanksgiving, my buddies and I were having a discussion on outsourcing and how there is some serious money to be made by implementing an outsourcing type business and trying to streamline it to enable people in the US to take advantage.
Yahoo finance
writes an excellent article on “outsourcing your life” - basically, [...] Read more:ldquo
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Your airline miles may have expired and you may not even know it. 2007-06-20 11:28:21 Because I was moving so often, my airline miles programs got lost into the wind. Actually my mom started recieving a few of them at home in hawaii. After collecting the mail over a span of a month, I get a letter from my mom, from Continental that I had about 15 thousand [...]
An idiots introduction to assets and investing. Who, what, when, where, why, and how part 2 2007-06-19 17:51:37 Last week, I discussed the who what when and why. Today I’d like to discuss the where and how to invest. This bring me back to my other article that reviewed the 19 investment brokerages that consumer reports examined for trading. Of the 19 investment brokerage companies, the top three included First [...]
How a VISA signature card could have saved my ass when my laptop got stolen 2007-06-18 10:45:38 Last fall, I was on a crazy back and forth traveling marathon in the US interviewing for residency. An idiot of a person that I was, I decided to check in ALL of my luggage including the one with my laptop in it because I had a 7 hour layover in Reagan airport in [...] Read more:saved
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My first Investor Blog Network Festival 2007-06-17 20:38:00 So I’ve finally made investor blog network festival…this is their ninth festival. Hopefully I can participate in every festival from this forward on. The article that I’ve posted for the festival is my article on student loans
This week’s festival is held in www.biohealthinvestor.com
check it out, there are a lot of interesting information on [...] Read more:Investor
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Get 5% off your gas bill every month 2007-06-23 16:48:15 I wrote an article last month about the many ways that you can save money on gas. I recommend checking it out as it is pretty comprehensive. Discover card has done a turnaround from the days when discover was just a minor company in the shadow of mastercard and visa. There [...] Read more:every
Top 10 things doctors can do to save themselves from being sued for malpractice 2007-06-22 17:43:25 Its been 2 days of orientation for me in preparing to being working in the hospitals as a newly minted physician. As such, we had an entire day filled with orientation lectures and one of them was on malpractice prevention. There was an excellent handout that listed the 10 ways to avoid litigation [...] Read more:things
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How to get lots of stuff for free on your birthday 2007-06-27 20:51:33 I didn’t realize how many free stuff
you can get on a birthday but I remember that one time when my friends and I went to the olive garden and they surprised me with a birthday cake that the olive garden people brought and started singing happy birthday in italian. That was hilarious. [...]
A guide to getting the most out of your checking and savings accounts 2007-06-26 12:40:01 Nowadays, local banks may not be the best places for anyone to keep their money. I have currently 8 bank acccounts, a mix of checking
and savings accounts across various institutions. Today I’d like to let my fellow colleagues know about the various checking and saving accounts that you can put your liquid [...]
The Finance Physician tells you how you can survive the ER 2007-06-25 06:23:36 I think that one of the things that might be important to cover in a site that is written by a newly minted physician is this article about how to survive
the emergency room. My first month of hospital work which will start on the first of the coming month will be in the [...] Read more:Physician
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Why you should NOT get an iPhone 2007-06-28 14:21:36 If you haven’t heard about the iPHONE then you have been living under many many rocks. However, even if you did heard it, you should know that it would be a grave mistake to buy an iPHONE. Well…any person that really wants a very expensive phone with a very expensive phone plan should [...] Read more:iPhone
The secret to talking to an actual customer service representative 2007-07-03 13:05:40 With everything that you can get over the internet, sometimes we just feel like we end up disconnected with the rest of the world. The worst is when you just need to talk to an actual customer service representative but you get the loop around. Dial a human is a long list of [...]
Is it really cheaper to rent? Why you shouldn’t buy a house right now. 2007-07-02 09:03:43 I know I promised to write a how to about buying a house, especially for the newly graduated medical student but I just can’t see many positive in buying in a market like the one that we are facing right now.
The housing market in certain markets may make a little sense but here are a [...]
Make sure you sign up for a flexible spending account! 2007-07-23 19:55:04 The thing that people forget to do when they start a new job (and for us who are just starting residency) is to take the time to fully understand all the benefits that you can qualify for. The thing that I want to let you all know about is what is called the flexible [...]
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