The following is a guest post on things to look for while choosing your new home. I am not a home owner yet,
With so many options for housing in today’s market, it can be tough to know what to look for in a new home. On top of the options between a house, apartment or flat, there are other things to think about such as kitchen size, closet space and more
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Do you handle your family’s financials? Are you the one balancing the checkbook each month (do people really still do that)? How do you know where you stand from day-to-day with your finances? In case you do the bookkeeping, do you still use pen and paper and a truck load of receipts to do that? In IT age, old style bookkeeping is obsolete.
Bookkeeping as an activity always was and still is an important aspect of managing personal finance. Keeping track of earnings and spending are two most important aspects of managing personal finance. This post is not about managing your household books electronically with the help of modern software tools which will make your job easier and less time consuming.
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This is an introspective post that can tell you a little bit more about myself. I was pondering over this question, how does I really feel that I am a blogger with good follower base? Am I happy, proud or just normal? Here, I will write about how does it feel to be a blogger. How a blogger feels for his blog and the readers.
Real Time Visitors, as shown on Google Analytics
Blogging gives you mixed feeling. It can be enjoying, satisfying and at time it is too draining. No doubt it’s a great feeling that readers keep coming back for the new posts. When I see the dots in my real-time Google Analytics screen (like in the picture above), I feel proud to be a blogger. I think it’s the same feeling of pride that book authors get with each copy being sold. Where it pains is the immense work-load you take on.
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Alright, readers, I am shameless to admit that I smoke, even after knowing that smoking is one of the main reasons for heart attack. Here is all bad effects of smoking listed in the article. I do want to quit sooner. Till I quit, I won’t keep other good stuff pending that will do good to my health. After smoking the second biggest enemy, for me, is lack of exercise, I don’t even spare 10 mins a week for exercises.
While going through some of the articles recently on health, I ran across one that talked about heart problems. The biggest four causes of a heart attack did apply to me. Smoking, lack of sleep, stress and no exercise. It was a wake up call. Since then, I made a list of things I should do to protect my dear heart. This article contains that list.
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Did you get your tax refund money back yet? Did you know that the average person receives a refund of nearly $3,000? If you are receiving a check for three grand, what on earth do you plan on doing with that kind of money?
Investing Tax refund
I know some people would spend it foolishly by taking a lavish vacation in the Caribbean or for a season golf membership. I am not saying those are bad things, but there are plenty of better things that you can do with that chunk of change.
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