these are the moments I look for my grandparents behind me

[seperis]

Sometimes I think, after too much reading, that we really only have one taboo left in discussion, and it is money. I can do entries on my kinks and squicks, go into deeply biological detail of many sex acts that I am physically incapable of performing, and ask everyone to show me their underwear. And some people will. And explain how they wear

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[celli]

Trust me when I tell you that most "normal adults" DON'T seem to be able to handle their money.

Can you tell the system to count your 457 withdrawal and posting as two separate events? Maybe put in the net amount of your check, instead of the gross, and treat the posting as a completely independent event?

[seperis]

Hmm. I wonder if setting it to deposit in a dummy account in the program and then manually remove it move over the day that it deposits *would* get it fixed. I--didn't think of that. That would keep it tracking accurately, just change the number of transactions and not be auto. I can live with it not being auto. *enchanted*

I need to try this. Thank you!

[morgandawn]

both msmoney and quicken are designed for more complex accounting although they can work on the basic level

[seperis]

I need to shift the stock/bond balance, as I do not have one; I think all but one are fairly volatile, from what I read when I started, but luckily, since this is thorugh the state as well, they give us very limited rope by which to hang ourselves. Since this was experimental, I only invested the very minimum allowed per month to see how it worked. Basically, I'm running it for a year to get at least some kind of idea how it works. Since my mom does the same thing, I also read hers to see how we differ. Our big difference is that I tend to spread out my eggs a lot and she consolidates more in a few with a lower overall risk.

It's very--educational, even if part of the time, I'm not sure what I'm learning. Most of my actiivty is entering it into a spreadsheet to get a visual on waht everything is doing. It's not dramatically bad, just--well, ordinarily bad, and I'm thinking most of that is the combination of my inexperience and a not-great market.

And thank you! Hitting the tutorials tonight!

[morgandawn]

"And just my background reading tells me that this isn't something I can learn on the side and do well at. \"

back again - I think investments are not as hard as we're led to think. a lot of people make a lot of money telling us otherwise. I have links to some very basic books under my money tag - and it all boils down to - pick a few index funds, use the right generic ratios (see above), invest on a monthly basis, check the accounts 2x a year etc.

debt management and budgets can be a bit harder - but the books I recommended really break it down to the basics.

[seperis]

I love your tagging--I did start looking at them last month with the job change, because if there was ever a time to completely get everything on track, this is it.

The investment thing is probably the thing that makes me most nervous; the 457 was how I wanted to get at least a general feel of how it looks and works. *crosses fingers* Will delve more deeply now.

[torra]

Would it cheer you up if you setup a Porn Comment Fic Challange to make up for it? Bring this blog back to it's one true love of...well...everything you've so described?

[seperis]

...I am so tempted. Bring it back to the True Path.

(I am reading Dune again. I almost said Golden Path. Oh shoot me now.)

[torra]

Well, it's not much, but it's the best I can do while a 1 1/2 year old and a 2 1/2 year old are running around the floor above me. Do you know how hard it is to write porn with kids playing above your head on a Sunday afternoon? ...Well, yes, you probably do, huh? ::G::

.-~*~-.

"How is this fair? How, in any theoretically possible logical universe, is this fair?"

John rolled his eyes and thrust his hips hard, forcing the toy deeper into him, "Who said anything about ooooooh fair? You lost the bet, Rodney, get over--" Rodney cut off the last word by wrapping his hand tightly around John's cock and stripping it once, hard.

"It was a lousy bet." Rodney pointed out.

John shook his head, "Doesn't really matter how good or bad the bet was, the point is you lost it, and so now you've got to pay up. Now will you please get back to work?" John groaned and tried thrusting his hips again, which had worked pleasurably well last time, but this time Rodney stilled his hips with a heavy hand. "Rod-neee

[seperis]

..wow. I did not get this in my inbox, and--wow. *breathes* YEah. That's--yeah.

[loriel_eris]

God, that was my first reaction! *g* And that about the most helpful thing I can add to this topic... Good luck!

[seperis]

*glows*