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Putting Rent on a Credit Card: An Opportunity to Churn
Our new townhouse allows us to pay rent on a credit card!! None of the places we’ve lived so far has made that option available to us, and at our current place we actually have to mail paper checks, if you can believe it. But after we move in two weeks we’ll have the opportunity to charge an extra $870 per month! Why are we excited about this? Putting rent on a credit card seems like … Read entire article »
Filed under: credit cards, housing
Targeted Savings Account Calculation: Cars through Aug2013
This weekend I re-projected the amount of money we need to save monthly into our Cars targeted savings account. I’d like to share my method with you so that you can see as an example how we decide how much to save into each savings account. The Cars account is a good one for this exercise because the payments we make out of it are very well-defined (unlike Travel or Appearance) but they’re shifting a … Read entire article »
Filed under: budgeting, cars, targeted savings
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