I quit drinking coffee. In fact, I’ve even quit drinking caffeine. The hardest part about doing this was missing out on my morning cup of coffee. In order to get through this challenge, I decided to start drinking decaf tea. There’s only one problem with drinking decaf tea when you are out and about. Nobody seems to carry it. Starbucks doesn’t even have black decaf
College Not Cheaper By the Dozen
Holy crap!! This couple paid for all 12 of their kids to go through private schools and 4 year colleges. I guess I should be happy that I don’t have 12 kids. I’d be very interested to know what he does for a living and whether they have a retirement account for themselves. That’s a lot of money! http://www.nbc11.com/news/9394432/detail.html Â
Are You Kidding Me?
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=2070979 Yeah. I guess I don’t agree with Bernanke
Caution! Don’t Read this Unless You Want to Spend Money!
I know I’ve mentioned it before but I’ve always been interested in how marketing affects each of us. Billions and billions of dollars are spent every year to either directly sell to us, or to figure out what we want and what a company needs to do to get us to act. I’ve been compiling a list of slogans that I remember, either as a
Saved 78% By Checking Ebay
I recently started running at the health club again. I had let my membership lapse since the club had been ratcheting up my yearly dues and I was a little annoyed about it. From a health perspective, I should have sucked it up and kept paying so that I could continue to use the gym. Well, I didn’t. I got a mailing from the club
$500 Car Payment on Minimum Wage
Glad I’m not in her predicament. I’d say Dave gave her good advice. http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50422
I Have Got to Start a 529 Plan
When reading articles like this: http://www.kirotv.com/education/9297347/detail.html it reminds me that I haven’t started a 529 plan for my daughter. I spent about a half hour trying to figure out which plan is best and also requested information on the Washington state GET program, but I’m starting to get serious about opening a Kansas based 529 plan. It has a decent rating from the people that
Cheap Table Saws R Us
About 6 years ago I bought a table top table saw. It was $129 and was pretty much the cheapest way to go. The table saw I really wanted was $450 plus and there was no way I could justify spending that much. So, I sucked it up and bought the cheapy. Add on the $40 table for it and I was up to $169.Â
Clothes Only Cost .23 Each
My wife and daughter went for a walk this morning and were gone about 20 minutes when the phone rang. My wife had taken her cel phone and was out on her walk. She asked me to drive over to where they were to check out a garage sale. I’ll confess that I normally HATE garage sales. My stubborn point of view is that we
I Want That! Please, Can I Have That?
I suppose it was inevitable. My daughter has reached that precious milestone of wanting everything she sees in the store and she believes with the right approach, she’ll get it. I guess it’s been slowly evolving, but I really noticed it last time we went to the store. She’s almost 3 years old and firmly has a grasp on the idea that getting more “things” is