UPDATE: I WAS ROBBED! plus some property recovery tips

I posted last week about some rat bastard(s) breaking into my home and stealing some of my stuff. A few developments since my previous post:

We figured out that the burglar(s) also took a framed family picture that was in our entertainment center along with the electronics. The only thing we can figure is that [...]

Update: KWorld Rebate Finally Received!

Early last week I posted about an overdue rebate I was waiting on from KWorld Computer. I emailed them on Monday and wouldn’t you know they printed a check the same day and I got it in the mail on Saturday. From some of the postings on SD and FW it seems like their normal [...]

I WAS ROBBED! (literally)

Another wrinkle in my home saga – some bastard broke into my friggin’ house! Broad daylight just before noon on July 4th somebody apparently pulled a vehicle up the driveway, kicked in the backdoor, and grabbed whatever they could. They took all the electronics from my entertainment center except the old Super Nintendo and the [...]

Rebate follow-up: KWorld Computer

Since I have a little bit of downtime this week, I am following up on several rebates that are overdue. The first on the hit list is a $20 rebate from KWorld computer for video input card purchased from buy.com. This is one of those I should have never jumped on, as many people on [...]

Free Family Records Organizer CD-ROM from T. Rowe Price

Imagine you were to get hit by a bus or sat on by Rosie O’Donnell tomorrow? Would your loved ones be able to close out your affairs? Would they know every place you have squirreled away money? As someone who has had to piece together a financial life after a loved one’s untimely death, I [...]

Retirement Accounts: Diversifying for Taxes

One of the big things you hear a lot about in investing is diversification of assets. Like the old advice, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”, the idea here is to spread your investment money among enough different assets so that if one loses money, you can still fall back on the others. [...]