Cheddarblog

The Swiss_Mouse lives near a fairly large city.
His side of the metropolitan area quickly turns from city into rural within a few short miles.
The Swiss_Mouse himself lives in a subdivision, yet right across the road are cows and horses roaming on farms.  There are bison and llamas too only 1/2 mile away.  Or are they […]

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If Swiss_Mouse could have a best friend, it would be Mr. Peabody.  Those of you 35 and older will know who I am talking about.
 
First off he is a dog.  Dogs rock.  Cats suck.  Granted, he wears a bow tie and glasses and his vocabulary is approximately 20 times larger than the normal person, […]

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The Swiss_Mouse gives, not until it hurts, but he gives….
The Swiss_Mouse currently uses a nifty program called Deduction Pro that came bundled with his H&R Block Tax software.  It makes tracking and “fair value” calculations pretty easy.  It handily exports into TaxCut.
But the Swiss_Mouse recently read that “starting this year you’ll need to save all […]

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The Swiss_Mouse had two incidents lately that have shown the power of defining and sticking to a budget.
First both of the Swiss_Mouse’s automobiles required service with 6 days of each other.  Total bill was $1000.  Most people would have to dip into the emergency fund.  However the Swiss_Mouse budgets for service and easily paid both […]

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The Swiss_Mouse always looks up, after all he is ground level, but his October numbers are looking tasty.  The Mouse family are still mostly invested in mutual funds, long term, however right now a significant portion is in cash.  The Swiss_Mouse’s sell triggers all fired with steep downward turns in late summer.  He has not […]

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Like a nerd to the girls in high school, you too can become invisible…or mostly invisible.
The Swiss_Mouse subscribes to Money Magazine (for now). In the October issue there was a useful article on several steps you can take in order to “vanish” from marketer’s databases.
The Swiss_Mouse has already employed several of these strategies and […]

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The Swiss_Mouse has been an investor for quite a while.  While he has not amassed a huge fortune he has done well.  One strategy that enabled the Swiss_Mouse to build up his pile of cheddar back in the days when he had very little was dividend reinvestment.  His tool of choice then:  Sharebuilder.
Sharebuilder is a nice […]

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As mentioned in previous posts, the Swiss_Mouse has been spending more time lately doing more thinking than blogging.  Not a bad thing.
The Swiss_Mouse has been trying to decide on how best to head down this road of internet cheddar.  He had categorized (all mice hate this word)  his ideas.  Prioritized his ideas.  Evaluated his ideas.  […]

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In his wallet the Swiss_Mouse keeps a slip of paper. It has his goals on it.
Once upon a time, the Swiss_Mouse worked at the most horrid, awful, depressing company in the world. He left that job for one that was even worse.
However one human he befriended there remains a friend even today. […]

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Recently, running the wheel (work) hasn’t been so bad. The Swiss_Mouse has had a task to do, that he could accomplish. He received very few emails telling him to work on things of “important” status. Lunches have been quiet. All in all a vast improvement over previous months and years.
In the […]

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