Archive for March, 2006
Canadian Millionaires Know How to Party!
If I ever have ridiculous sums of money, I think you’ll find me on a tour like this:
Picking Stocks and Mutual Funds is a Pain!
One thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn more about stocks. I have a friend of mine who damn near seems like Warren Buffet. He learned his skills from a family member and has shown me some amazing stocks. I’m not someone who just wants the latest stock “tip”, rather, I’d prefer to [...]
Large Financial Decision Ahead
My wife and I have been talking and she is considering a career change when she goes back to work. She has been staying at home with our daughter for almost 3 years, but we know that we want her to go back to work at some point. (not that what she’s been doing at [...]
Pulled the Trigger. Bought the Truck!
I have a confession to make. You know all that talk a couple months ago about being tempted to buy a new truck? Well, it happened. I bought a 2006 Toyota Tacoma with pretty much every option you could get on it. It’s amazing and I have to say, I’m not having any post buying [...]
Interesting Observation About my Financial Journey
This morning I was going through our investments/assets/expenses which I keep in a custom excel document that I created a few years ago. This spreadsheet includes multiple tabs, and a couple charts. I call this my Financial Dashboard. At a glance I can easily see all the figures that make up my net worth. It [...]
Sign Anything You Like on Your Credit Card
Okay, along the same lines as submitting a torn up credit card application and actually getting the card is this: This guy decided to get creative on what he signed on his receipts. He started out just using a different looking signature and progressed to writing square boxes, X’s, Mariah Carey, and on and on. [...]
What a Great Dinner Tonight
About a year and a half ago, my wife and I decided to REALLY splurge and went out to dinner at the Keg restaurant near our home. The Keg has outstanding steaks and the service is great. While we were there, we noticed that they had a birthday club card to fill out. It turns [...]
Torn up Credit Card Application Taped Back Together and it Worked
Well, this is a bit scary! If you’ve never visited http://www.cockeyed.com, you gotta do it. In one of his latest experiments, he rips up a credit card app, just like many people do, and then tapes it back together and sends it in to see if they’ll send him a new card. Sure enough, he [...]
Tivo Off their Rocker
Well, I just read that Tivo is changing their pricing structure. This furthers my speculation that Tivo is a dying company. I’ve got Tivo. If you recall, I got my 140 hour Tivo for free. All I had to do was pay the first years subscription. Any way you slice it, this was a good [...]
It’s all About Moderation
I can’t help but draw a comparison between good financial decisions and good eating habits. I’m not sure which is more important. I’d have to lean towards good eating habits simply because money isn’t too valuable if you are dead. (I suppose your heirs might beg to differ with you, but you get the point) [...]