Jim from Blueprint For Financial Prosperity writes about how “bottled water is absolutely f’ing ridiculous.” He outlines several very good reasons why bottled water is not worth the cost, environmental impact, or supposed “health benefits.” And I agree with all of Jim’s points. But I still drink bottled water. Why? Several reasons. At Home: The [...]
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You know, I rarely get these things because my e-mail filters out almost all spam that I receive. However, since I started using G-Mail as my e-mail service for this blog, I have noticed that a few of my e-mails have been sent to the Spam folder that shouldn’t have gone there. So, I always [...]
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Leona Helmsly, the widow of a billionaire real estate mogul, recently passed away and her will was just made public. The results: Her dog gets $12 million dollars, while two of her four grandkids get nothing. I don’t have a problem with her not leaving money to her grandkids, that is between her and them. [...]
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When I was younger, my brothers and I collected baseball cards. When I say collected, I mean we had thousands of them between the three of us. We would swap them, sort them, talk about them, and look forward to the next time we could go to the drug store to buy a new pack [...]
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This is Part 2 in a series, Researching MBA Options. Part 1 covered the topic, Do You Need an MBA? I have decided that an MBA is pretty much necessary for my chosen career path, so now I want to investigate program types. The way I see it, there are two main categories, in-residence and [...]
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A new 99¢ Only Store opened in Fresno, CA on August 23rd, and the first 9 people were able to buy a 2GB iPod nano for only 99¢ – no strings attached. Of course, anytime you can buy a brand new iPod for 99¢ it would seem to be a good deal. After all, the [...]
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The Thrift Savings Plan has announced that starting in October, 2007, they will no longer use Social Security Numbers as their primary source of identification for communications. These changes will include using new ID procedures for their website, their telephone service, ThriftLine, and for written communications. This change is designed to increase member security and [...]
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