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The Swiss_Mouse was snubbed again for this article.
And he didn’t make Time’s Mouse of the Year either!
Stupid Al Gore getting the Nobel Prize made it strike three for the mouse in recognition terms.
Money Magazine does mention Yodlee.   Swiss_Mouse used it for a short time, but fell out of the habit of using it.  Don’t get […]

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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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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 had mentioned this on other blog sites, but his web statistics are confusing him somewhat.
If you look at these numbers you can see that 1and1.com webstats are showing a vastly higher number of unique visitors and page views to Cheddarblog.
Google/Analytics and StatCounter report “about” the same, but still not completely jiving.
The Swiss_Mouse is […]

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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 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 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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