Showing posts with label Personal Finance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personal Finance. Show all posts
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Earned Free Stuff from HSBC
Today in the mail I received a free night at any Marriott Hotel courtesy of HSBC. I keep over $15k in the high yield online savings account and, if used wisely, this could be a $200+ savings if I use it before January 1, 2008!
Friday, October 13, 2006
My stupid way of paying for summer vacations
Instead of using money from savings, I financed my vacations this summer on my credit card. The reason I do this is because I am extremely averse to withdrawing money from savings. So when it comes time to take a vacation somewhere, I put it on my credit card and hope to pay it off as soon as I can.
The average balance in my credit card account since July has been approximately $2,000 and I have paid $88.93 in finance charges to Citibank. It’s not all that much and as crazy as it sounds this is better (for me) than to have taken the money out of savings. This gives me the incentive to spend less so that I can pay the card off ASAP.
Starting with the first paycheck from my new job, I will start try something different. I will put $100 into my savings account and $100 into a brand new account which will be called "accrued vacation & misc expenses account" on my personal net worth statement. This way since I have a corresponding liability already setup and I don't have to feel guilty spending money from this account -- it will have no effect on my networth. $2,400 into this account per month should be sufficient to pay for any vacation expenses I'm likely to incur next year.
The average balance in my credit card account since July has been approximately $2,000 and I have paid $88.93 in finance charges to Citibank. It’s not all that much and as crazy as it sounds this is better (for me) than to have taken the money out of savings. This gives me the incentive to spend less so that I can pay the card off ASAP.
Starting with the first paycheck from my new job, I will start try something different. I will put $100 into my savings account and $100 into a brand new account which will be called "accrued vacation & misc expenses account" on my personal net worth statement. This way since I have a corresponding liability already setup and I don't have to feel guilty spending money from this account -- it will have no effect on my networth. $2,400 into this account per month should be sufficient to pay for any vacation expenses I'm likely to incur next year.
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