Introduce Yourself

[PRICEPLUS]

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Welcome Joan of the Arch! Clever moniker. You'll find the folks here are pretty nice. Enjoy the site and join right in!

[tgavin71]

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HI all. I am a claytons single mum of two wonderful kids aged 9 and 7. We live in the fabulous city of Newcastle, Australia, about an hour and a half north of Sydney on the coast. My hubby works away and flys home for a week once a month.
We are very frugal and are on the constant lookout for what we call "Barrys" which is short for "Barry Bargain". One of the first words our kids learnt was "Barry"

[Tightwad Kitty]

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Welcome to Savings Advice - tgavin71

[lucasrd]

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My name is Luke. I am 25 years old and from Minnesota. I've been a saver my whole life, and have recently become an investor. My wife and I are both college graduates and have good jobs. Our goal is to retire in 12-15 years, or about the time we are 40. We both work full-time and I have a side-business that I run out of our home (a web development company).
Our goal is to have $1,000,000 in liquid assets in 9 years. I love watching the stockmarkets and am working on some sophisticated market analysis computer programs. I also like watching Jim Cramer on CNBC.

[Ima saver]

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Welcom, Lucas!! Sounds like you are off to a great start!!

[buzz75]

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Hello.

Chris. 30-y-o. Married. 2 children. I want to save, save, save!!!

I would love to have a mil by the time I'm 40 but I'll settle for a little less

[Trillian]

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Hi, Im Trillian, aka MartyAnne Whited. I live in Cleveland currently, with my S0 of two years and his (now our) cat. Im a stay at home kitty momma. I have run my own transcription business, but am taking a break and focusing on selling Mary Kay cosmetics and working on wellness....since my health has me on disability. Fixed income at 32 means Im in this for the long haul on money savvy!

Im an internet junkie, so I like to know at the end of each day I have added some smidgeon of added net worth to the whole -- be it a freebie, a coupon deal, a way to stretch money, etc. Of course, I have a ways to go in cleaning up my youthful credit indiscretions.

I had been posting my own googled freebie lists to a womens forum on a BBS and finally looked around at existing resources. I had been deathly afraid of the scams out there, and had done my own lists to be sure the offers were straight from the source companies -- I only want Jelly Bellys if they come straight from jellybelly.com kind of thing

Now it's a big thing for me to share my finds and strategies with others.

[rob62521]

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Welcome, Trillian! You will find that people on this site are both friendly and helpful!

[Ima saver]

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Welcome Buzz and Trillion! Glad you are here!!

[TTUPharmer]

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I'm Tim and I'm an alcoholic... wait wrong board, actually I'm about to get married, start pharmacy school (at texas tech), and turn 22, all before sep 1.

Both my wife to be and I are intending on saving money and staying out of debt (her student loans aside), and we also both want to try to take some of what little we have and growing it so we can have some play money, even though it won't be much. We just opened a MM with ING and I am looking to put a very small amount of money into the stock market (mostly for fun). Anyway, it's good to be here, I've learned a lot already in just a few days.

[Ima saver]

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Welcom ttup, sounds like you have an exciting life ahead of you!!

[TTUPharmer]

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Welcom ttup, sounds like you have an exciting life ahead of you!!

yeah, this summer is a bit crazy, but it'll all be well worth it, I'm looking forward to every last bit of it

especially the part when I graduate in four years and make a nice living (while helping people of course, but this is a money forum )

[David]

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I feel like I hit the jackpot when I found Savingadvice. I have been lurking about reading all the threads from like minded people. I'm from south Louisiana near Baton Rouge. We survived Katrina without even losing a shingle and were even able to help some folks out until they could get their power back on. I'm mostly frugal although I fall off the wagon sometimes. My end goal is to retire early at 55 which I am on track for. What I mean, is to have the option at 55 to do something else with my time; what that is I don't know yet. When I come to this site, it helps keep me grounded toward watching where the money goes. My wife is a good old country girl so does not focus on having bigger, newer and better than others. We are mostly on the same page when it comes to spending money, so I guess that's a blessing I should appreciate. I'm not much of a writer, so I'll likely make an ass out of myself on at this forum. I'm young, and have stunning good looks and sport a 6 pack that all the women like. Hey! Its the internet, you have to admit that sounds better than saying I'm 43 with a one pack. I am at this very moment working at a chemical plant near Baton Rouge at the control board so I have a lot of time to play on the internet. Kind of like the Maytag repairman but I'm not lazy, just can do my job well and play on the internet too during these long nights at work. Thanks for reading about me.

[tgavin71]

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Welcome David. Your post gave me a laugh.

[Writer@Large]

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Hi, all! My name is Brian, or "Writer@Large" as I'm generally known on other forums. I'm a dad, husband, and educator from Dearborn, MI. I'm here because I've been browsing everything I can find on personal savings and financial advice as part of my weblogging efforts; I maintain a weblog where I'm chronicling my attempt at Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover and trying to provide a talk-point for personal finance issues of the day.


I'm looking forward to browsing and participating here!

--W@L