Comments on: Financial Challenge – Day 18

By: Retire at 30 » Festival of Frugality #11

Retire at 30 » Festival of Frugality #11 — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:02:21 +0000

[...] Off topic submissions:� Finding federal money owed to you,� One that was too off topic to even list, Something about time management (frugal use of your time?), and finally a rant/ramble about not paying taxes. [...]

By: Wilson

Wilson — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:24:45 +0000

Hey Jeffrey, finally got down to the last day of your series! Man, you are perhaps the most hardcore about this type of advise as I’ve seen. Looking forward to your next pieces.

Greg’s comment does raise some doubts for me though as far as the credibility in some of these ‘searches’. To be practical and honest, I would think that I’d know if I had some real estate or bonds left somewhere. But a search (if legit and doesn’t promote spam) couldn’t hurt. At worse it will turn up nothing.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:05:15 +0000

Put in false info – it’s only for advertisers. They never asked for my name.

By: Donna Luna

Donna Luna — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:56:34 +0000

I followed the link to the National Unclaimed Property Database and began to sign up until I saw the amount of personal information, such as income, home ownership, that the site required. That is absolutely outrageous, and I find your recommendation irresponsible. While I understand that the site is maintained by advertisers and the information is wanted to help the advertisers target their audience, that amount of personal information out in cyberspace in a time of increased identify fraud – especially when merely a name, age, and zip code can provide a third party with enough information to acquire detailed information about a person – is dangerous. I have been generally pleased with your newsletter, but this time it’s “thumbs down.”

By: Gloria

Gloria — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:49:33 +0000

No lucj today, but thanks any how It was fun searching.