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Wanted: Insurance Advice

Any of you cool cats out there know anything about proper insurance coverage for a house? Because I’m looking at switching my insurance, and the new company says I’m really under-insured. I don’t want to be under-insured, but I’m not sure I want to be over-insured, either. Right now I’m insured for about 1.06 times the appraised value of the house. New company says I should be more like 1.73 times the appraised value. That’s a big difference, no? FYI, it’s an old farmhouse–part of it from 1830s, perhaps, part of it from late 1800s. Any and all advice would […]

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Where to Eat Free with Kids

Here’s a post to all you cheap parents out there. Well, to all you cheap parents who live in places with real restaurants. There’s a Blog Post that lists all the places you can have your kids eat free, broken down alphabetically and by day of the week. Pretty much none of these work for me, but maybe they work for you. If so, enjoy. Other than that, I have nothing much to say to you.

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Refinancing Extravaganza

Because I’m a glutton for punishment, I’ve not only been trying to catch up with all my work this week, but I’ve also been trying to refinance my mortgage. That’s applied for now, and if it goes through, my rate goes down 1.375%, which would please me greatly, and would make all this effort very worthwhile. If, of course, that doesn’t go through, I shall be bitter. Which happens more than I’d like, these days. This whole economy thing stinks, plain and simple. Which is why it’s good I have Netflix. Watched Cloverfield last night, and I was really impressed.

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Financial Planning

Thanks to my brother, I now have some sort of a clue when it comes to how I should be investing my money, what sort of insurance I should have–you name it. He talked with me for two hours last night and went over anything and everything. If any of you are looking for some good financial advice, I’d be happy to get you in touch with him. I don’t know about you, but with me, the whole “retirement plans” thing just never made a lot of sense to me. Now, it does. Or at least I feel like it

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Postapalooza

Seriously. I might have to start reconsidering my post-free-weekend policy, because I just keep coming up with things that I want to post about. So let’s get straight to business. First of all, writing update: meh. This book isn’t working “as is,” and I need to come up with some ways to make it work. Now I’m beginning to think about overhauling the POVs in the book–limiting it back to one. I don’t know. It’s all based on a good core concept, but I feel like it’s drifting away from that core and off into places I don’t feel like

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