Comments on: Financial Challenge – Day 16 http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2006/02/15/10428_financial-challenge-day-16.html Bridging the gap between saving money and investing Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:29:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gloria http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2006/02/15/10428_financial-challenge-day-16.html/comment-page-1/#comment-802 Gloria Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:49:49 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/?p=428#comment-802 Live in an apartment complex...dont directly pay for trash (if you dont count taxes) but I will keep this in mind when we finally buy a home. Thanks Live in an apartment complex…dont directly pay for trash (if you dont count taxes) but I will keep this in mind when we finally buy a home. Thanks

]]> By: Scott http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2006/02/15/10428_financial-challenge-day-16.html/comment-page-1/#comment-800 Scott Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:43:23 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/?p=428#comment-800 Like Perky I found out that the recycling center / garbage drop off is near where I work. I try to recycle what I can, and I have very little trash each month. It saves me $30/month to do it this way. I've been doing this since September, thats $180 so far. (BTW I have upped my 401k investments $80/mo in the same time, so almost half of that has been pain free) Like Perky I found out that the recycling center / garbage drop off is near where I work. I try to recycle what I can, and I have very little trash each month. It saves me $30/month to do it this way. I’ve been doing this since September, thats $180 so far. (BTW I have upped my 401k investments $80/mo in the same time, so almost half of that has been pain free)

]]> By: Wandering Indian Monk http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2006/02/15/10428_financial-challenge-day-16.html/comment-page-1/#comment-799 Wandering Indian Monk Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:49:15 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/?p=428#comment-799 Great tip! Unfortunately for us in San Jose, we are stuck with this one company that handles garbages - NorCal. Our Mayor was involved in the recently exposed trash-hauling scandal. lol! Great tip! Unfortunately for us in San Jose, we are stuck with this one company that handles garbages – NorCal. Our Mayor was involved in the recently exposed trash-hauling scandal. lol!

]]> By: davis http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2006/02/15/10428_financial-challenge-day-16.html/comment-page-1/#comment-796 davis Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:25:39 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/?p=428#comment-796 This was great! I just knocked off $7.50 a month and to tell the truth, I had no idea that we could choose garbage companies. I guess it's bad to assume. This was great! I just knocked off $7.50 a month and to tell the truth, I had no idea that we could choose garbage companies. I guess it’s bad to assume.

]]> By: anna http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2006/02/15/10428_financial-challenge-day-16.html/comment-page-1/#comment-794 anna Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:27:25 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/?p=428#comment-794 Or you could do like my hub's grandpa and just keep building barns to hold the trash. They haven't had garbage pick-up since 1954. There's this cute little outhouse on their farm, and (okay, I have morbid curiosity) I opened the door to peek inside and about two years worth of trash almost fell on my HEAD. I mean, they burn the paper stuff, but... wha...! No wonder my hub's a hoarder... I'd need six video tapes to log our personal belongings... you can't imagine the money we made on scrap steel when we moved (it's gone. Don't ask. The money and the steel.) But don't get me started... Trash. Our neighbor has a full-sized dumpster. Being we just moved here, he said we can just throw our trash in there and pay half. Hub started doing that WITHOUT asking what 'half' is. ((That's the way hub works.)) I'm worried about 'half'. That's a BIG dumpster. And those people are weird - their mailbox is a birdhouse with a knob on the front stuck on the top of a railroad tie. Their emergency house numbers (most people have green signs with reflective white numbers?) - they have a piece of yellow legal paper stapled to the railroad tie with permanent marker scribbled on it. It says 'we live down this drive' on the bottom. Did I mention I fear? I fear for my sanity, our finances, over the neighbors... hey, is there a daily stress challenge coming up anytime soon...? Or you could do like my hub’s grandpa and just keep building barns to hold the trash. They haven’t had garbage pick-up since 1954. There’s this cute little outhouse on their farm, and (okay, I have morbid curiosity) I opened the door to peek inside and about two years worth of trash almost fell on my HEAD. I mean, they burn the paper stuff, but… wha…! No wonder my hub’s a hoarder… I’d need six video tapes to log our personal belongings… you can’t imagine the money we made on scrap steel when we moved (it’s gone. Don’t ask. The money and the steel.) But don’t get me started…

Trash. Our neighbor has a full-sized dumpster. Being we just moved here, he said we can just throw our trash in there and pay half. Hub started doing that WITHOUT asking what ‘half’ is. ((That’s the way hub works.)) I’m worried about ‘half’. That’s a BIG dumpster. And those people are weird – their mailbox is a birdhouse with a knob on the front stuck on the top of a railroad tie. Their emergency house numbers (most people have green signs with reflective white numbers?) – they have a piece of yellow legal paper stapled to the railroad tie with permanent marker scribbled on it. It says ‘we live down this drive’ on the bottom. Did I mention I fear? I fear for my sanity, our finances, over the neighbors… hey, is there a daily stress challenge coming up anytime soon…?

]]> By: Marissa http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2006/02/15/10428_financial-challenge-day-16.html/comment-page-1/#comment-793 Marissa Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:16:24 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/?p=428#comment-793 same thing for me, this service is "free", paid through taxes... same thing for me, this service is “free”, paid through taxes…

]]> By: Frazzlemommyof2 http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2006/02/15/10428_financial-challenge-day-16.html/comment-page-1/#comment-792 Frazzlemommyof2 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:51:32 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/?p=428#comment-792 Where I live my city taxes pay for garbage pick-up (also leaves/brush removal and large appliances removal). So this service is "free" for me. Where I live my city taxes pay for garbage pick-up (also leaves/brush removal and large appliances removal). So this service is “free” for me.

]]> By: Perky http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2006/02/15/10428_financial-challenge-day-16.html/comment-page-1/#comment-791 Perky Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:01:44 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/?p=428#comment-791 We were going to switch, it would have saved us almost 5 a month, but we started taking it ourselves (there is a recycling center very nearby) We were going to switch, it would have saved us almost 5 a month, but we started taking it ourselves (there is a recycling center very nearby)

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