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4 quick steps to building wealth 1. Find something you can do well and (at least moderately) enjoy doing.* 2. Do it.** 3. Try to save some of the money you make doing it.*** 4. Repeat steps 2 and 3.**** I think that may be it. What do you think? photo credit: woodleywonderworks * Notice I...
American Girl - Not Frugal At All (Or What's A Smile Worth) Last weekend we went to the American Girl store in Manhattan to buy my daughter a doll. Have you heard of this place? It's a doll store that specializes in making the doll purchase a full experience for your child. Among the doll choices you have is their Just Like...
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...
Bear Valley Mountain Resort, Bear Valley, CA Bear Valley Mountain Resort is located in: Bear Valley, CA Phone: (209) 753-2301 Website: http://www.bearvalley.com/winter/index.asp About the Resort: This is a great, all inclusive ski resort located in the heart of the Sierra's. They have a fantastic reputation as being a great place to bring the family, even if not...
Big Bear Marina, Big Bear Lake, CA Big Bear Marina is located on: Big Bear Lake in Big Bear Lake, CA Phone: 909.866.3218 Average Water Depth: Big Bear Lake does change quite a bit throughout the year. It's a good idea to contact the marina management for exact lake levels before you arrive. Is there a marine...
Lighthouse Trailer Resort and Marina, Big Bear Lake, CA Lighthouse Trailer Resort and Marina is located on Big Bear Lake in Big Bear City, CA Phone: 909.866.9464 Average Water Depth: The water levels at Big Bear Lake do change quite a bit. We recommend calling the marina for more information before you arrive. Is there a marine stand by...- Review of Schiff's The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets A marketing company was kind enough to send me a review copy of Peter D. Schiff's The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets. Mr. Schiff is the president of Euro Pacific Capital, Inc., and has earned the nickname "Dr. Doom" for his bearish take on the US markets...
Bull and Bear Markets Consistently Appear in 16 Year Supercycle Intervals If you think the stock market doesn't behave in consistent (possibly predictable) boom and bust economic cycles, this graphic might change your mind. Going as far back as 1886, this chart indicates that bull markets and bear markets routinely plague our economy.  Aptly named Supercycles, they come and go in a somewhat predictable...- Palladium Coins Coins and Paper Money -> Bullion -> Platinum and Palladium Palladium coins are extremely rare and they are one of the most valuable types of money that you can collect. If you have never heard of palladium before, or if you are curious as to what these coins are, there...
Bear Mountain Ski Resort, Big Bear Lake, CA Bear Mountain Ski Resort is located in: Big Bear Lake, CA Phone: (909) 585-2519 Website: http://www.bearmountain.com/index_winter.php About the Resort: Bear Mountain Ski Resort is sumptuously appointed, and it is a true skiers paradise. This resort is known for their terrain parks and snowboarders from all over the world flock here...
Seven Tips For A Green Car Wash Cars are so convenient, but also create so many environmental challenges. That's true not just when using them, but also when cleaning them. The issues are water usage and toxic cleaners. An inefficient car wash can waste a lot of water, and many cleaners are very harmful to the...
The Bridgwater Egret [nggallery id=19] View Larger Map While walking George the dog today, I spotted an Egret in town! You can tell it's an egret because nothing else is so brilliantly white. The seagulls and terns look dull in comparison! This really shows the pace of global warming in my short lifetime....- Street View Gets the Finger in Newcastle One other side effect of the Google release into the wild UK of Street View, has been people checking up places they know - and I'm no exception. This is where the band Crawling Chaos played their first gig: View Larger Map ....and this is a dude in a farty...
Investing in this Financial Crisis Sunday Paper - March 8th, 2009 2009 Investment Strategy By Gary Mozda For Investors and friends with a long-term investment focus (i.e. 5+ years) Disclaimer: First and foremost I am in no way providing sound financial advice that you should use to blindly invest with. These are my ideas and...- Pump closure makes national news A gas station owner in Wisconsin cordoned off his pumps yesterday in protest of high gas prices. He got kudos from quite a few passersby but others were scratching their heads as to what impact the closure would really have except to shift some of the day's gasoline purchases to...
- Dell making Smartphone-to compete Apple's iPod Touch A pocket-sized Internet device using Google's Android is being developed by Dell, an operating system which can take on Apple's iPod Touch. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the device would be available by early second half of 2009. Sources say that the device looks like Apple's...
Five Gorgeous Recycled Glass Kitchen Countertops Thinking about doing a kitchen remodeling job, especially after reading the guest post on green kitchens earlier this week? That post inspired me to seek out the ways in which recycled or repurposed materials could be used to create fabulous looking kitchens. The most eco friendly products tend to...
Three Certified Eco Friendly, Low VOC Paint Brands Painting your home is an excellent and relatively inexpensive way to remodel. The right choice of paint colors can make the drabbest room come alive! But what about the effect of paint on the environment and your health? Your local hardware store has hundreds of choices; if you're looking...
Dell auditors shake things up As I have mentioned before, my profession of auditing does not seem to be well respected. We do, however, serve a purpose, as was made dazzingly clear Friday: Dell Inc. will restate its earnings for fiscal years 2003 through 2006 and the first quarter of 2007 after an internal audit...- Homeowners in crisis need relief now
- Weekend Personal Finance Links (Palm Pre vs. iPhone Edition) I'd like to wish all the father's out there a Happy Father's Day. I'm not going to go into Father's Day very much... my father died when I was young. Also, at age 33, I'm not a father myself. I suppose I'm a daddy to our dog, Jake, but I'm...
- Credit Reports: Interesting Equivocations There are a number of credit report or even credit score companies which seem to market themselves on a fallacy: knowing your credit makes it better. For example, Micah interpreted one commercial as implying that if only this guy had gotten his credit report before going car shopping, he would...
- A Posh Shave for Father's Day - Ultimate Male Luxury There's nothing like a professional wet shave to make you look and feel your best and with this shaving class you will learn traditional techniques to achieve a professional result without having to visit a barbers every time! An expert will guide you through your one hour session, offering handy hints and...
- Weekend Link Love And Carnival Roundup - 5.3.08 Carnival of Personal Finance My post on Vanguard's Global Stock Market Index Fund was included in this week's Carnival of Personal Finance #150 hosted by Lazy Man And Money. Here are some of my favorite posts from this week's edition: Moneyning asks if you would rather get a consistent income or...
- Mongabay.com: Balloon Technology Could Cut Cost of Solar Energy 90% by 2010 Mongobay.com has an article today about a company named CoolEarth Solar that is developing something called balloon technology. Basically, balloon technology uses a string of balloons to concentrate and capture the sun's energy without taking up large amounts of valuable real estate or by using large amounts of silicon, which...
Five Easy New Year's Resolutions For Going Green The new year is upon us. Have you decided to try to be more eco friendly in 2009, but in a way that doesn't bust your wallet? There's so much we can do in ways both large and small that help to reduce carbon emissions and the pressure on...- Entering dates You can enter a date directly as a serial number (if you know it), but more often, you enter a date using any of several recognized date formats. Excel automatically converts your entry into the corresponding date serial number (which it uses for calculations), and it also applies the default...
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- A manageable struggle Perhaps I should have titled this: Living by questions (in light of my post a month or so ago about living with verbs...) Someone said to me not too long ago that her struggle was manageable. I thought that was a great phrase. Manageable is good, as I told her....
- Forex Trading Is All About Setting Up And Executing A Correct Strategy It's general knowledge that the huge majority of forex traders lose cash. But part of the cause for this is because they never make use of any kind of trading set up. The reality is that the forex markets can be cruel, but they can also transport you gigantic riches...
