Category Archives: Goals

Saving for a Goal with SmartyPig

If you haven’t used SmartyPig before and are comfortable with online savings accounts (like ING Direct), I highly recommend checking it out. SmartyPig is an online savings account that currently pays 2.01% APY. That rate isn’t much different from most of the other online (well, nearly double ING Direct’s at the moment), but how the [...]
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Savings Goals

Many months ago (June 2009), my wife and I set a goal for the amount of money we wanted to save. We wanted to save enough for a down payment on a modest house by May 1, 2010. Since then our plans for that money has changed somewhat, but the dollar amount and date of [...]
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New Traffic Goals

To help keep me motivated, I have a block of code on this website that compares a few of my websites’ traffic to another website’s traffic. For a long time, I’ve had the Fake Name Generator and Fake Mail Generator on that list. They’ve been consistently at 2x-20x the traffic goal for so long that [...]
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I made it!

I made it! I’ve hit my earnings goal for Corban Works! Back in March 2009, I decided I’d start tracking my online earnings, and set a goal for where I wanted to be. My gross earnings at the time were about $160 per week with all my sites running off of a shared hosting account. [...]
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Unemployment negotiations

On Tuesday night, my wife and I discussed my unemployment. Don’t worry, I’m still happily employed. The problem is: I don’t want to be! My goal for a long time has been to make enough money from my own business to be able to quite my day job and work from home full time. My [...]
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