Fail October & Investing Update

MoneyTreeAs you may have noticed, it has been a bit since I have been active in blogging.  Now there is really no good reason, but that time is already gone.  Now once I get my regular computer back working I will have all the stuff to update my income and expenses for the past two months, as well as update my net worth.  With that said I have updated my Portfolio showing the stocks purchased from the ROTH IRA transfer as well as my automatic Loyal 3 purchases.  I hope to continue with my previous schedule with Tuesday and Thursday blog posts, resuming, today!

And I think the theme of last month had me personally a little off.  I just can’t seem to post every day and while thinking about living while I am dying, I would rather live a bit more in the moment.  Anyways, as of today I have found myself with some extra time in the short term so I hope to get everything up to date shortly as well as some posts set up for the future as well. Continue reading

Frugal FinCon Fiesta – Ask Anything!

PartyWell being late to the party, is better than never, right? Well while all of the richy rich or at least richer than I in either cash or free time financial bloggers are in New Orleans for FinCon, debtdebs put together this great idea for us bloggers left behind to unite! And in this unity we get to answer any questions, you – the read, ask!  Also, I plan on doing this instead of a weekender, just something a little different that will hopefully be fun!

So.. ask away!

I will get things started.

Q: So, Kipp, being a cool guy and all that you are, what is up with how much you spend in gas?  Aren’t you more frugal than that?

A: Well thank you Kipp, I know that I am pretty cool, but it is nice to hear someone else say it.  Anyways… most of our fuel expenses is with the wifey’s commute.  It is 25 miles one way, so 250 miles a week.  Not the most frugal commute, but it will do for now.  I won’t force her to look for another job just to save a few bucks.  Happy wife, happy life, right?

Ok, now your turn readers!  I will be gone for a bit in the morning tomorrow so I hope I have some questions to answer when I get back! Continue reading

Blog Update

UpdateI will try to not do too many of these, as my focus is primarily on content, but I wanted to let all of my readers know about the pages I have been adding recently as a quick reference to reoccurring articles.

Additionally I have signed up with twitter and facebook.  Although, it is worth mentioning that I am not a big fan of facebook and I haven’t been updating that regularly… yet.. but I would probably be more motivated if I had some followers!  That and I haven’t found a way to auto post my latest posts onto the page yet, but I have found a way to do so for twitter but honestly I was doing good on twitter before the auto post thing.

So here is a quick breakdown of the pages I have added or updated recently: Continue reading