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- Selling Your Soul or Having it Slowly Sucked Away... Sometimes financial decisions feel like they're sucking away a little bit of your soul. But what's the difference between that and selling out?
- How Mrs. Micah stayed sane (relatively) This is mostly an accomplishments post--but it doesn't include our biggest one. We don't plan to spend any money today. None. We did use a little gas, but no metro cards, no purchases, nothing. Tomorrow we're going to use some free movie passes we got. I'd say that would save...
- Selling and Sucking your Soul: Ethics and Finance A few days ago, Denise at Flamingo House Happenings wrote about a conversation she and her partner had concerning soul-selling vs. soul-sucking. Is there a difference? I think so…that some things we don’t want to do suck our souls. Other times, we choose to sell our souls, a la Faust,...
Cards Home Opener Well, the Cards lost today in the cold, but I did get some cool pics of the festivities in downtown St Louis. Fountains of Red Looking at Keiner Plaza, Next Week's Tea Party Location Busch Stadium Around Busch Stadim More from Busch Stadium More from Busch Stadium Bud Light Hummer...
Boyds Bears Dolls-and-Bears -> Bears -> Boyds Boyds Bears are the creation of Gary Lowenthal and his wife, Justina Unger. Before they were married, they owned an antique shop together in 1979, and found that they couldn’t afford the types of antiques they wanted to carry. So in 1982 they started making...- Some things I learned helping a homeless person I had served dinner at a homeless shelter once. It was a few years ago. Tuesday afternoon I was talking with a friend about the economy, the bailouts, etc. We differ in opinion on how things should be handled -- he's anti-business and I'm free market -- but I let...
- Webkinz Pet Names Hi its Micayla and I want to talk about good names for webkinz. If I were you hear is what I would do in naming a couple of webkinz pets, but not all of them first. I would call my pets name by what color it is. Also by the ...
Choose A Hidden Nanny Camera To Keep Your Family Safe Hidden Nanny Cameras are a choice of many people that are looking for secure and mini cameras for inside their home, although these security cameras are useful in more than just your home as many people use them at work, in the park, camping, etc. The back pack hidden nanny camera is a great hidden camera for camping, jogging in the park or any place you need to carry your items.
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Is that a light I see? Rally or Trap? Every investor currently in the market has been pleasantly surprised with the 1500 point increase (as of this post) we have enjoyed over the last seven weeks. Many are beginning to whisper ever so quietly around the water cooler about the end of the Bear Market....- Success Comes From Striving To Be The Best ...at least as far as authority site building goes. Being the best pays really, really well in many markets. Take your pick from among the places you've listed in your bookmarks. I'll wager there are some millionaires, and billionaires, behind some of the sites you've marked as favorites and visit...
- Bayer, a Cure for More Than Just Pain Usually, I am not the type to sit around and watch commercials during television shows. I'll typically either have several programs that I flip between, or I channel surf, until something strikes my interest. Today was different though. I was watching "Hannity and Colmes" on Fox News, and I was...
- Saving up I loved this recent post from I will Teach You to be Rich. My favorite part said, Ordinary actions get ordinary results. Look around. Do you see many rich people around you? No, because they are behaving in predictably ordinary ways: Not knowing how much they spend, not being conscious...
- Alicia H. Munnell's false comparison between 401ks and social security. There was an article by Alicia H. Munnell on cnn's webpage a while back, which draws a false comparison between 401ks and social security. Ms Munnell was a member of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers from 1995 to 1997 and was assistant secretary of the Treasury from 1993 to...
- THE REAL RESON AIG WAS RESCUED! Remember when this economic crisis hit, and Congress let Bear Sterns go under, but pushed a bunch of forced marriages between banks, etc.? Then they bailed out AIG. At the time, I thought: "That's strange. What does an insurance company have to do with this crisis?" I think I...
- Tips on Speculating in the Stock Market. I usually feel more in line with value investor Ben Graham's line of thinking, but after reading Jim Cramer's Real Money, I have come to see that there is a time and place for some of the speculator's techniques. Just because favor one school of thought, doesn't mean another doesn't...
The E-Entrepreneur Success Mindset Series, Part I Why Do So Many Internet Startups Fail Today? Everyday out there in the real brick and mortar world, millions and millions of people drag themselves from the warm beds, take a shower, grab a cup of coffee, and head off to their jobs as they are thinking that there has...- Preparing for the End of Socialist Security. From USANews: "With the recent government announcement that the Social Security trust fund is set to run out in 2037, four years earlier than previous estimates, many young workers are asking themselves: Why am I paying into a system that might not be there for me when I retire?" Why...
- Friday inspiration: Facing an ugly reality and making changes This is part of a series of interviews with people who are either working to improve their financial situation or who have already reached their goals. This week’s interview is with Bruce a.k.a. the “taxguy”, who writes the taxguy blog. He and his wife have just begun working on their...
- Megadroid Reviews. Automated Forex the Foreign Exchange market What is Forex Mega Droid? This is an automated trading affairs which allows you to barter after actively demography allotment in the absolute trading itself. This is done by abutting this software to a trading belvedere and acceptance it to run advisedly on your computer....
- Friday Link Love And Carnival Roundup I participated in three carnivals this week: carnival of personal finance #161 hosted by The Budgeting Babe, Carnival of Money Stories #68 hosted by Funny About Money, and the Festival of Frugality #134 hosted by On Financial Success. All three hosts did a stellar job and, as usual, there are...
All About Emergency Funds The news is full of heartbreaking stories about people losing their homes, going bankrupt and facing financial ruin. If you don’t want to be among them, it is time to take a hard look at some steps that you can take to insure yourself against financial ruin. One of the...
My Life as a Volunteer Tax Preparer - Week 3 Today was my third weekly session as a volunteer tax preparer. I met more interesting people with yet more interesting hard truth stories involving the intersections of their money with their lives. That being the case, I thought I would continue to share them with you. The first appointment...- Personal Responsibility in New Orleans: Does the Government Really Mean It? Government Showing Disaster Relief Tough Love? If you have been a regular reader of my blog, you know that Mr. ToughMoneyLove is a believer in personal responsibility in matters of money and personal finance. My belief in personal responsibility extends to other life matters as well, particularly when the alternative...
- Did You Know This about Umpire Bernice Gera On June 24, 1972, Bernice Gera becomes the first woman to umpire in a professional game. Gera works the first game of a New York-Pennsylvania League doubleheader between the Auburn Phillies and Geneva Rangers. Gera encounters a series of disputes in the game and will never umpire again The Chicago Bears...
- Church of Lies Wiley.com - Review - It is difficult for any person not affiliated with a group like the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) to imagine the motivation for living in such a system. Jessop grew up within the strictures of the FLDS cult, subjected to...
Save on Investment Expenses and Losses: Fire Your Financial Planner If you read a lot of the right things about investing, you will be regularly admonished to minimize your investment expenses. This includes choosing mutual funds with low expense ratios and finding ways to trade with little or no transaction costs. In markets where gains are hard to find (like...- Net Worth Update - January 2008 I missed posting this in the middle of the month; I wanted to get some articles posted last week that I felt were more interesting. I did manage to grab a snap shot of my accounts from the 15th. With the stock market dropping like a ball on New Year's...
Wheat Penny Money -> Small-Cents -> Lincoln-Wheat-1909-1958 Probably one of the easiest coins to acquire for a coin collection is the wheat penny. This coin was a United States penny minted from 1909 to 1958. The coin goes by many names, including the Lincoln Wheat Cent and Wheatie, and was worth 1...
