Archive for November, 2006
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I think I’m rubbing off on my fiancee
We headed up to Hawaii’s North Shore a couple of days ago. There’s a good chance that when you are watching a surfing competition with 10-15 foot waves, it’s from this area. We decided to stop at the “Pipeline.” It had become so synonymous with surfing that I thought it was [...]
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The Cheaper Side of Hawaii
I have always read and heard about the how expensive Hawaii is. My fiancee turned to me yesterday and said, “I just don’t see how it’s expensive.” I responded, “Leave your military ID and you’ll find out.” It has really helped make this trip cheap numerous times. For instance, room [...]
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Quick Prosper Update
I had been steadily feeding money into Prosper for a couple of weeks now. Though, I’ve been getting what I feel are going to be solid loans, it’s been even longer than usual for Prosper to make the loans active. It had to have been more than week with 4 loans all [...]
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Aloha from Hawaii
If this posting’s formatting looks a little weird it’s because I’m being frugal by posting from my cell phone. In a pricing oddity, Internet access for the day is about the cost tennis lessons for the week. You’d think Hawaii is a foreign country at $10 a day.
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What’s Your Pampering Vacation Budget?
As I had mentioned previously, I am going on vacation to Hawaii. As far as vacations go, this has the potential to be an expensive one. We are using the timeshare, so it feels like we are not really paying for a hotel, but we essentially are. The flight [...]
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Best and Worst Money Moves
Jim at Bargaineering.com has been compiling a list of best and worst money moves. I’ve been putting it off simply because it’s pretty hard to go back and analyze over the years. Do I include the set of 1986 Celtics Basketball cards that have appreciated some three hundred times their value? [...]
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They Are All Out To Get Me…
If it sounds like I’m paranoid, read on…
USA Today has an article about security checks getting a little too personal. I don’t know about you, but if someone asks me questions that they shouldn’t know the answers to, I’m not going to give them. I know it’s fairly unlikely, but they could [...] -
How I Lost $40,000 Yesterday
I had a conversation with my new tenant yesterday. Seems like my friend/realtor found a really great person. I could have talked to her for a lot longer than either of us had time. She did mention how my next door neighbor sold her condo for $40,000 less than what I [...]
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Take a Ride at These Carnivals
Lazy Man and Money was honored to be involved in three Carnivals this week.
Don’t Mess with Taxes was kind enough to publish my article on if 401Ks are really that great of a deal
The same article made it’s way to City Girl’s Financial Blog’s hosting of the Carnival of Personal Finance.
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Protect Your Privacy on the Web
I couldn’t help but notice how smart a lot of my visitors are. A full 54% of you are using a browser other than Internet Explorer, with 45% of you choosing Firefox. For those of you with Firefox, I’ve got a tip.
Run, don’t walk, and download the TrackMeNot plugin. This plugin sends random searches [...]
