Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
I was going to write a post about Oprah’s debt diet. (Their “finale” was yesterday) but I found that “It’s Just Money” did a good job and said pretty much everything I was thinking. One part of the show that I found a little annoying was their level of enthusiasm about declaring, “Great news. You are going to be a millionaire”. I guess I would
You know something? Toys are dirt cheap. Ever since they started manufacturing them in foreign countries (think China, Taiwan etc) toys have continued their price decline. Combine low cost manufacturing with very large retail importers (think Walmart, Target, Costco etc) and you’ve got the recipe for low cost toys for kids. Why do I care, you ask? Well, it all goes back to my childhood,
Have you ever wanted to know how the car dealers spin their web? It’s no secret that going to a car dealer to buy a car is not exactly everyone’s favorite activity. Car dealers use many techniques to put you in a car with the cards stacked in their favor. Many people end up paying far too much for their vehicle because they don’t know
When Dan found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed a woman to enjoy it with. So one evening he went to a singles bar where he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away. “I may look like just an ordinary man”, he said as he
Here’s a link to the movie trailer for “Keeping Up With the Steins”. I think my favorite quote in the trailer is, “It’s not how much money you have…… It’s how much money you spend”. http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/keepingupwiththesteins/trailer/
I saw this post on Fatwallet. The poster tends to make the point that people are eating out based on any sort of economic consideration. Check out the original post to see some of the other responses. Here’s the initial post: ———- “I’m surprised that, on a site devoted to financial prudence, more people haven’t savaged the notion that it is consistent with the ideals
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=1803117 Workers have retirement “overconfidence”. There are some great statistics in this article. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500 Check out the most profitable companies in the U.S. Probably not a huge surprise that the top companies are mostly energy and financial companies. http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/31/pf/saver_parker/index.htm Extreme savers. Meet the Parkers. They are living well below their income level and, in fact, save her entire paycheck each month. http://biz.yahoo.com/special/realestateapril06_article1.html Where are housing
If I ever have ridiculous sums of money, I think you’ll find me on a tour like this:
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 understand how to find the stock myself. So, over a
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 home hasn’t been work). She currently has two bachelors degree.Â