Tarraguña on November 13th, 2008

I did it. I put some advertisements on my blog. I am so intrigued by other people claiming that they make money from using Google Adsense on their blogs. We will see if any money rolls in.
I will always place them in the sidebars and not in the middle of a [...]

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2008 will no doubt be recorded as a historic year.  I feel so overwhelmed by all of the bailouts, the financial mess, the election and the fact that my 401k is down 53% and my traditional IRA funded with index stocks is still down 30%. 
I wish I had some hope for the upcoming election [...]

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Tarraguña on October 15th, 2008

I just checked and over the last year I have registered 16 different domains. This is way more that I can keep up with due to my current 10-12 hour day job. You can view them before I retire them. Don’t panic as you can always view my archives

www.akedugan.org

www.anochezca.com

www.arabicproject.info

www.bodhibuddha.org

www.chineseproject.info

www.geradeaus.us

www.gradschoolinpuertorico.com

www.justuptheroad.org

www.kyl3.org

www.kyledugantarraguna.com

www.linuxproject.info

www.lospuertos.org

www.russianproject.info

www.tarraguna.com

www.techhack.net

www.thedugans.info

Today is Blog Action [...]

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Tarragua on September 8th, 2008

I get paid twice a month, so as a routine I look over all of my accounts twice a month as a way to keep track of them and keep an eye out for [...]

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Tarragua on August 15th, 2008

I used to think of the structure of a loan to be that; a) entity needs money b) entity who has money sees opportunity to let other entity use their money in return for paying back the money borrowed along with an additional fee ie interest. I think we all understood the game as [...]

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Tarragua on July 9th, 2008

As some of our future intentions will have some upfront costs and in order to increase our safety net and financial independence I have been looking at ways to adjust our budget in order to save some money and cut out some unnecessary expenditures.
780 anual savings by cutting out our weekly eating out of chinese [...]

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Tarragua on June 25th, 2008

I just thought this was so interesting to read.  Read it here.

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Tarragua on April 10th, 2008

I really enjoyed this excerpt so much that I have to post it here.  This is one of my favorite financial websites.

 
In 2006, JLP from All Financial Matters interviewed Clements, asking, “What’s the most important thing you have learned since you started writing about personal finance?” Clements replied: 
Financial success has very little to do [...]

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Tarragua on April 9th, 2008

April 15th is 6 days away.  I have plenty of time to complete my taxes and file on time. J  No, really I will be completing this task this weekend. All other financial investigations will be put on hold in the mean time.  The site Get Rich Slowly has a great informative PDF file about [...]

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Tarragua on April 2nd, 2008

A good way to keep more of your money is to spend less of it on the things you buy.  Don’t just walk into a store and pick up something and buy it.  Discuss the price with a representative, see if they can lower it.  Don’t walk in with that attitude that you simply have [...]

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