Archive for August, 2005
The Financial Decision of Car Ownership
This is a continuation of Should I Sell My Car?. After a lot of thinking, I have decided NOT to sell my car. Why?
1) I bought this car NEW four years ago. Sticker price of the car was $24,100. Current value is realistically $8,000 or so. I have owned […]
Making Food at Home to Save Money
I sat down with the girlfriend on Sunday to go over what food we should buy for the week. For the last couple of weeks, we’ve had the problem of buying a bunch of food and not eating it before it has gone bad. Therefore, we sat down together and planned all of […]
Behavioral Finance
I have heard this study quoted many times and found it once again…
“In 2001, Dalbar released a study entitled Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior (Behavioral Fianance), which concluded that average investors fail to achieve market-index returns.
It found that in the 17-year period to December 2000, the S&P 500 returned an average of 16.29% per […]
Important Financial Documents
This past weekend I had been comtemplating selling my car (more on this in the future). However, as I thought about selling it, I got distracted as my mind then began to try to think of where I put the Title to my car that would enable me to sell it. You see, […]
