Cheddarblog

The Swiss_Mouse wasn’t going to turn the Cheddarblog into any kind truly personal blog that had anything to do with a subject other than making some cheddar. However he decided to start a category purely for rambling on about various subjects. He will try to keep it cheddar oriented. He promises.
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The Swiss_Mouse has several non-retirement and retirement investment accounts. This is not bragging like other bloggers (”OH I make a million every morning while I’m in my pajamas, losers!”). No, not at all. Just a fact. Mrs. Swiss_Mouse has retirement accounts at Schwab. Swiss_Mouse has accounts at Fidelity.
Swiss_Mouse and […]

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The Swiss_Mouse has shared with you his affection for CafePress in the past. Today he shares with you ACTUAL NUMBERS from a friend’s CafePress shop.
This is his actual revenue numbers for 2007 :

Jan 2007: $71.50
Feb 2007: $62.37
Mar 2007: $51.05
Apr 2007: $64.65
May 2007: $62.87
Jun 2007: $63.39
Jul 2007: $87.05

His Traffic was:

Proving that you can make some […]

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The Swiss_Mouse made a mistake. He mistyped the url for AnnualCreditReport.com. He did NOT mean to accidentally put an “s” on the end and make it AnnualCreditReports.com. HOWEVER, strangely he had several hits from viewers who found him with that misspelling.

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The Swiss_Mouse recently received a mailing from his mortgage company, Regions Mortgage. This mailing touted that he could enroll in a program to accelerate his mortgage payoff saving thousands of dollars and saving years of mortgage payments.
All this seemed rather familiar to the Swiss_Mouse, but he couldn’t quite put his little finger on what […]

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Yet another calculation that the Swiss_Mouse uses in determining how well he is doing financially is a calculation he found in a financial article.
Social Security Lifetime Earnings Ratio
This calculation is meant to give you a numerical representation of where you are at in your career based on your income and net worth. The calculation […]

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The Swiss_Mouse had to think a bit, but he believes his calculation for Expected net worth came from a book by Thomas J. Stanley. It was The Millionaire Next Door.
He also wrote The Millionaire Mind .
Regardless, the Swiss_Mouse uses two other calculations from those books to gage his overall financial well being […]

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The Swiss_Mouse uses a variety of calculations to measure his overall financial well being.
One simple calculation that he discovered a few years ago reading a financial book was “Expected Net Worth”. This represents overall current net worth based on age and income (basically how much cheddar you should have stored up by now).
The formula […]

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The best line from the 1966 film The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming is “Emergency! Everyone to get from street!”
The Swiss_Mouse doesn’t believe most people (excluding Uzbeks) have to worry about the Russians anymore.
However most people do need to worry about an unexpected medical bills, automotive breakdowns, home repairs or […]

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In the age of identity theft, you need to protect yourself as much as possible. The last thing the Swiss_Mouse would want to find out is that some other Swiss_Mouse had opened Credit cards or taken out loans with his name (There is only one true Swiss_Mouse).
One simple way to keep taps on this […]

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