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How Losing Track of My Car Title Cost Me Hundreds of Dollars

April 8th, 2016 | 2 Comments

How Losing Track of My Car Title Cost Me Hundreds of Dollars

In a recent post, I confessed that I lost track of my car title for about six years and only tried to have it sent to me once selling the car became a near-term possibility. I was a terrible fool to ignore that problem for as long as I did, and in the end it took nearly a year for the DMV to mail me my car title. Insane! Of course, I wish I had … Read entire article »

Filed under: cars

Important But Uninteresting PF Topics

October 28th, 2013 | 41 Comments

Important But Uninteresting PF Topics

I have read broadly on personal finance so I have a passing familiarity with a bunch of subjects, yet here on EPF I stick to writing in the areas of budgeting, finances in marriage, frugality, grad student finances, etc.  I don’t often write about debt because we’re not (really) in debt and don’t plan on getting into it again except for a mortgage.  I don’t often write about insurance because, after reading the recommendations, I … Read entire article »

Filed under: investing

The Financial Implications of Dropping One Car

March 7th, 2012 | 35 Comments

The Financial Implications of Dropping One Car

We have decided to become a one-car family!  If you remember, three weeks ago my car wouldn’t start and we found out it needed $1,600 in repairs.  We paid $400 to get it running and evaluated the possibility of relying completely on Kyle’s car until we start working at different places.  (We don’t want to sell the car because it still has a lot of miles left in it.  Kyle will graduate in a year-ish … Read entire article »

Filed under: budgeting, cars, personal