Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
The pull to spend money never ceases. As concerned as I am about the overall economy, you’d think I’d be sitting in my home letting the cash pile up from cracking down on our spending. It’s just not that easy. I’ve been conditioned over a long period of time to crave things. What kind of things? The standard stuff. I’d love to buy a new
I’ve been sitting on the sideline when it comes to signing up for an online tool that allows me to get a consolidated view of all my investment and bank accounts. The main reason is that I didn’t want to offer up my account logins for fear of creating extra drama in my life. I finally bit the bullet yesterday and am somewhat surprised at
This is pretty interesting to watch. Peter Schiff gave this at a mortgage bankers conference in Las Vegas. The funny thing is that everything he says is pretty darned basic. Well worth watching: A couple interesting points: It was easier to get a house than it was to rent because the landlords actually checked your credit and income for a rental Home prices have traditionally
I’ve mentioned before how much I like the "deal". For me, the "deal" is anything that I can do to get a better price on something. I absolutely hate paying retail for something. When I do have to pay retail for something I find myself feeling a bit of dread as I pay the cashier. Whether I’m at the department store buying new clothes, or
I was watching a show called "Airline" recently and watched as two passengers were refused entrance on to their flight. They had been drinking too much and were somewhat drunk and belligerent. The younger of the two people started saying he wanted his money back and was directed to the ticket counter to receive it. On the way, he made all kinds of drunken comments
My wife, daughter and I were sitting at the breakfast table this morning when my daughter, who’s 5, randomly told my wife, "There are a lot of advertisements that are just trying to take our money." Over the last year or so when we are reading the paper and looking at advertisements I’ve tried to make a point to our daughter that sometimes you can
I have to admit I’m spending a lot of time reading the latest news about the potential bailout on Wall Street. The latest is that they are considering adding executive compensation caps to the proposal. I still haven’t read anything about limiting the power and scope that this proposal would give to the executive branch. The two things that bother me most about this potential
David at My Two Dollars has a couple of posts that I was going to do myself but he did a fine job so I’m just going to link to him. I am finding myself more and more angry that we are looking at more than a Trillion dollar bailout for Wall Street. If they enact this, at the minimum I’d like to see: -Drastically
I couldn’t resist pointing this out. There is a grand opening of a new H&M store in Seattle today. People waited in line for hours to get in to this store. Never mind the fact that there is an existing store 10 miles south of this location. What really made me shake my head was this quote from the article: "I have way too many
