Tools & Resources

I Just-Got-Laid-Off Survival Kit (including how to find $100k+ job opportunities )

August 18, 2007

If you’re new here, please check out what my site’s about. I also encourage you to get free Dough Roller updates from my RSS feed or via e-mail. Thanks for stopping by! It’s 3 in the afternoon and your boss calls you into her office. You’re being laid off, and it pains her as much [...]

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10 Home Value Websites to Lookup the Value of Your Home (and your neighbor’s home)

July 27, 2007

The captain has turned on the seatbelt sign as an indication that the housing market has been cleared for landing. Please bring your seat backs and tray tables to their upright and locked positions. Turn off all electronic devices, and most importantly, assume the crash position. With housing prices falling, I thought this would be [...]

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Making the Most of Morningstar: Determining the Market Cap of a Portfolio

June 29, 2007

The Morningstar User’s Guide is a series of articles discussing how to make the best use of the tools, research and analysis available at Morningstar.com. In the series on asset allocation, we looked at the importance of the market capitalization (or market cap, for short) of a fund or portfolio. Today, let’s look at some [...]

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Making the Most of Morningstar: Portfolio Manager

June 18, 2007

The Morningstar User’s Guide is a series of articles discussing how to make the best use of the tools, research and analysis available at Morningstar.com. In the last article we covered a basic Introduction to Morningstar.com. Today we look at adding our portfolio to Morningstar. After you register with Morningstar (which is free), adding your [...]

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1,000 Ideas for Remodeling Your Kitchen

May 29, 2007

We are in the early stages of a major remodeling of our kitchen. As much as I enjoy our home and improving it, the project has been very stressful and time-consuming, and we haven’t even started construction! I’ll be writing about the process and the cost as we move forward, but today wanted to share [...]

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