United First Financial For Sale? - Bargaineering

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 09:03 AM PDT

One of the most commented posts on Bargaineering is my take on the legitimacy of United First Financial’s Money Merge Accounts (it’s legit in that it works but you’re overpaying for no apparent reason), so I’ve always taken a keen interest in UFF and the state of their programs. Well, I smiled a little when I first read about United First Financial’s last breath on the Fraud Files blog and now the fact that they are being shopped around to private equity groups.

What does this mean for existing users? Stay put until it all shakes out but it doesn’t look great. If you are an existing user and want to stick with it, you want the company to be sold to a private equity group who can infuse additional capital and expertise. Short of additional funding, the company will likely go down. They’ve gone through plenty of layoffs and, according to some, are down to 8 people (from 70). It’s all pointing to a sinking ship.

Personally, I’m glad to see that this business model isn’t sustainable. The Money Merge account is an accelerated mortgage repayment scheme with a software package that costs you quite a bit of money. We’ve all learned, at an early age, that there is no free lunch and there isn’t a magic formula to paying down debt. The more you pay, the faster it gets paid off. The more you pay someone else to help you pay, the slower it gets paid off. It’s that simple.

Do you think they’ll get bought by a private equity firm or go silently into the night?

United First Financial For Sale? from personal finance blog Bargaineering.com.

Calculate Your Monthly Freedom Day

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 04:27 AM PDT

Every year, the Tax Foundation points to a day in April and proclaims it Tax Freedom Day. It’s the day after which you have effectively earned enough to cover your tax liabilities for the year. For 2010, that day was April 9th. In 2009, it was April 8th. The idea is that, based on what you are projected to owe in taxes, every hour you work until that day goes towards funding that liability. It’s more a gimmick than anything else but it does underscore an important point, each month you experience your own “Freedom Day.”

Your personal Monthly Freedom Day is the day where you earned enough that month to cover your fixed monthly obligations like your rent or mortgage, your car loan or your student loans. Today, I’m going to help you calculate your Monthly Freedom Day.

First, why should you calculate your Monthly Freedom Day? There are two reasons:

That which can be measured, can be improved. By sitting down and calculating your Monthly Freedom Day, you get to review all of your monthly expenses and make a decision on whether or not you want to keep them. In the case of your rent or mortgage, you won’t have much of a choice. In the case of other monthly service contracts, like a gym membership or Netflix subscription, you may decide you don’t want to pay for it anymore.
It’s fun! It’s fun to know what day you start working for yourself, instead of for the government or your possessions (like your car or your education).

Adding Up Expenses

The first step is to find every monthly expense you have and adding it up. You can start by looking at your credit card bills and bank statements, as you probably pay for most of your services through one of those two methods. If there are monthly bills you pay in cash, it’s important to include those as well. Next, you need to recall all the things you pay for on a quarterly, semiannual, or annual basis. If you own a home, this might be quarterly water bills or the annual property tax assessment (these may be integrated into your mortgage payment). One common one is insurance, as my auto insurance is billed every six months. If you’re a stickler for details, try to estimate gasoline usage (or mass transit expenses) and parking fees if you want to be more precise.

Here are the ones that were in my list of monthly expenses: mortgage (including property taxes and homeowners insurance), auto insurance (semiannual), Netflix membership, pest control services, cell phone, cable television/internet, gym and magazine subscriptions.

Calculating Earnings

There are two different strategies you can take for calculating your earnings:

Calculate earnings after tax. Look at your paycheck and divide your take home pay (gross income minus deductions) by the number of hours worked.
Use gross income and add deductions to your expenses. Divide your gross pay by the number of hours you worked so you know how much you earn per day, then account for the deductions by adding them to your monthly expenses. This is most similar to the way the Tax Foundation calculates Tax Freedom Day.

The first way is easier and creates a much earlier day in the month but the second way is more in the spirit of the Tax Foundations calculation.

Calculation

So now you have your earnings per day (per eight hours) and your expenses, simply divide and you know how many days you need to work in order to hit your Monthly Freedom Day. This day will change each month, depending on when the weekends fall, but you get the general idea.

Which day is your Monthly Freedom Day?

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Calculate Your Monthly Freedom Day from personal finance blog Bargaineering.com.

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