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[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]July 29, 2009: We all have our own system of keeping records such as bills, tax returns and statements. They are either stored in a file cabinet or as scanned images on data CD/DVDs or perhaps in shoe boxes. That is pretty good as long as the system works for us. But the most important question that arises

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]July 28, 2009: Being tech savvy people, every year we change our cell phones. Now comes the tricky part. What do we do with our old cell phones - dump them? No way! We have been selling them for the past few years and making a tidy sum out of each deal. This year we sold them online to a new company named

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]One of the basic money rules about a portfolio was that it had to be diversified to reduce our risk of losses. Well all of us know that diversifying our portfolios did not stop us from losing money in the recent downturn of the stock market. What went wrong?Rule #6: DiversificationOld thinking: A diversified

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]Most of us have a will in place. Well that is not the be all and end all of estate planning. Now a days most financial accounts come with the options of naming beneficiaries. If you plan to name beneficiaries or want to update out of date beneficiaries on your financial accounts then be aware of the

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]July 22, 2009: Recently we learnt a lesson about withdrawing money after depositing a check for a large amount. Please read on to learn the drama as it unfolded. We hope that our readers can benefit from this experience of ours and avoid paying unnecessary fees.Day 1 - We went to a physical branch of a

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]July 21, 2009: Often when we have no access to the internet and we need to look up a business we dial 411 on our cell phones. Most cell phone providers charge their customers for 411 calls. But now we can call 411 FREE! Thanks to services provided by 1-800-FREE-411.1-800-FREE-411 offers the same 411 service

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]Until recently it was almost always assumed that renting meant throwing away money. The golden money rule was to build home equity since real estate "always" appreciated. Thanks to the sub prime mortgage fiasco and the recession that emanated from it, the real estate bubble finally burst with a big