Archive for August, 2006
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Baseball Hall of Fame for Free!
We stopped into Cooperstown, NY yesterday. Turns out that the military discount for the Baseball Hall of Fame is 100% off – a savings of $15 per ticket. I wonder if the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame has some kind of price matching…
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Getting Ready for the Move to San Francisco
The time is nearly here. Almost everything I have is boxed up for the trip across country. It will be difficult for me to keep you updated along the way. I’m not sure what Internet connection I’ll have – if any. I also am not sure if I’ll have any [...]
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Getting an itchy Prosper finger
It’s been over a month since I’ve started putting 75% of my earning in my 401K in an attempt to max it out before I switch jobs and have to wait for 401(k) enrollment. It’s been tough to scale back on the spending and I’m nearing the point where I may have to [...]
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Getting Close to the Move and Still no Job
You’d think it would be easy to find a job in Silicon Valley for an engineer with 7-8 years of experience. Every recruiter (and there have been 40-50) says that it shouldn’t be a problem. Yet, I haven’t gotten any offers and they don’t seem to be coming back to me as [...]
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Saying “I Do” (Want to Save Money) – Part 2 – The Reception
Hopefully you’ll have read Part 1 – The Ring before now. If you haven’t and are a little lazy to click, here’s the executive summary: I’m getting married. I saved some money along the way. I explained how one can save 50% or more in buying the ring and what [...]
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TheMoneyBlogs.com Invite? Thanks, but I’ll pass,
Today, I got an e-mail asking if I’d like to join The Money Blog (URL intentionally not linked). It seems liked a very good deal at first. They promise lots of blog exposure and traffic. However, looking at the site, they use the RSS feed of all the content and never [...]
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Best Purchase You’ve Made?
My fiancee and I got to talking the other day about the best purchases we’ve made. I had bought a Furniture Trolley last time that I moved and it has come in handy over and over again. I often have friends ask to borrow it.
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Net Worth Update – August edition
It’s a little earlier than I usually do my net worth update. After the late one last month, I figured I’d get this one out now. There’s lots of good news in the Lazy Man’s accounts this month. Last Month I was concerned that my net worth was going in the [...]
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So Lazy, I Forgot to Give Thanks To…
…Brainwash Cafe. It’s really not that I was lazy, but I didn’t notice before now. The good folks at Brainwash Cafe awarded me an honorable mention for 10 Best Blogs Editors’ Choice a month and a half ago. I offer my sincerest thanks to them.
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Buying a Diamond Ring
After reading about 2 Million’s engagement, I was taken back to my own engagement a year ago. From a money point of view that typically means finding the right ring. For the average man this is an extremely difficult chore. Not only do we know little about such things, but there’s [...]
