Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
Here’s an interesting article that talks about a couple of new Broadcom chips that will be coming out in 2011 that will drastically reduce the price of smart phones. Today, people have to buy smart phones through a carrier (mostly) and pay a cost somewhere around $200 plus a steep monthly fee. It’s $200 because the carrier is subsidizing the price of the phone and
I was looking through our financial information this week and noticed that our college account for our 7 year old daughter is approaching $10,000. While that seemed like a decent balance for a 7 year old, I started looking at how much we’re really going to need when our daughter finishes high school. Unfortunately, it’s clear we aren’t saving enough. A conservative estimate is that
I took a few minutes to look around the Interwebs to see if I could find a consistent belief on where home prices are headed. While some people believe we are in an economic recovery and home prices will be heading up, it seems that just about the same amount of people think we have a ways to fall before we’ll see price stabilization. Yes,
There are some things that I hate spending money on. Christmas trees are probably right in the middle of that list. I’ve never really liked the idea of chopping down a tree, paying $40 for it and then putting it in the trash 30 days later. Years ago, my wife and I would look around for the cheapest tree lot we could find and try
While I normally don’t like to get caught up in the Black Friday shopping frenzy, I did take advantage of a sale on appliances at Lowes (online so I didn’t have to deal with the crowds). This wasn’t a spur of the moment, irrational purchase by any means. We started plumbing and wiring a spot in our lake house for a washer and dryer many
Every time my sister comes to visit, I can count on her being dressed in a sweater of some sort. By nature, she’s usually cold but she knows that we don’t keep the heat up too high at our house so she comes prepared. Actually, I don’t think we are very frugal when it comes to keeping the heat on during the winter. I have
Fascinating. I stumbled upon a chart that Gizmodo has from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing various jobs and the percentage of people in those jobs that have college degrees. Some of the more interesting ones: 13.74% of parking lot attendants have a bachelors degree 29.80% of flight attendants have bachelors degrees 24.61% of Amusement and recreation attendants have bachelors degrees (really????) 21.62% of Customer
I keep reading speculation that the Ipad is negatively impacting laptop sales. While I’m not an authority on the subject, I can tell you that it has definitely impacted the computer buying patterns at our house. We’ve always had multiple computers in the house. I have one in the office and my wife has a laptop that sits out on the desk in the kitchen.
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I’m such a dunce. I have been spending way too much time thinking of things to spend money on these days. I’ve dealt with at least 3 bouts of car lust over the past couple months and have been thinking about home improvement projects too. Will someone please duct tape me to a chair to bring things under control? I’m sure a psychologist could help
