We are doing it again this year – hitting the road for the holiday on an Amtrak train! We are going from Albuquerque to Chicago to Boston and back, over the span of a few weeks. That’s the benefit of both working for yourself and having a wife who is a teacher – we both get a lot of time off. We leave in a few days, and if there is any interest I will post about our trip again like I did last year. In the meantime, on to the roundup…
For those readers who have recently come on board to My Two Dollars or for those of you who may have missed a few of these, here are some articles you may have missed from past Decembers. With over 1,100 posts, even I forget about some of them. Enjoy!
Make A New Year’s Resolution To Get Organized – A Step By Step Guide.
Is Precious Metal Investing Only For Survivalists and Conspiracy Theorists?
So, we are finally “settled” (I use the term very loosely) into our new house and figuring out where everything goes. One of the first rooms I got set up is my home office, which I was very excited about because of this view out of the gigantic picture window:
Now if I can only get some writing done, we will be all set! While I gaze out the window, here are some articles that I thought would be of interest to you from this past week:
Turns out the insurance guy was right – we would end up with a cracked windshield within our first 6 months of living here! He called it, and now I have it. Luckily he convinced me to pay the extra $20 a year to have full windshield replacement coverage with no deductible, so I will be doing that next week. Best $20 I have ever spent! On to the roundup…
Paid Twice has Five Concrete Ways To Pay Yourself First. This should always be your top priority.
Today marks the formal launch of Tip’d, the social bookmarking site for financial news and stories. You might remember that I wrote about them back in October for their beta launch, but they have finally come out of beta with a slew of new features that will make it easier to use:
