Archive for August, 2007
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Non-Financial Goals: What if Your Money Problems were Solved?
About four months ago, Kenric of e-mailed me with a question. He has just written about post about non-financial goals and asked me “Do you have non-financial goals and how do they affect your financial goals?” In his post he gives examples of some non-financial goals: visiting the Grand Canyon, climbing Mt. Everest, sailing around [...]
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Happiness (and Money)
We’ve all heard that money can’t buy happiness. Some proof can be found in the number of lottery winners who had come upon tough times. Other proof may be had with all the difficulties that celebrities have. Many of them are far from being happy. It was this thought that occurred to me on the [...]
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Weekend Personal Finance Review – Movie and Drinks Edition
Last night could have been one of the most fun and interesting nights of my life, but for some reason I just wasn’t in the right frame of mind. It started off with a trip to see American Fusion, a new independent film showing only in select cities. My wife knows a relative of the [...]
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Five Things I Will Spend My Dimes On
Golbguru of Money Matters and More Musings is one of my favorite writers. Just yesterday, he wrote 12 Things I Will Never Spend A Dime On. Interestingly, I found 5 items on the list that I have spent my money on. Gillette Fusion Power – I mentioned switching to the Gillette Fusion Power back last [...]
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Does Anything Come With Electronics Nowadays?
A couple of weeks ago, I got a HP OfficeJet from Costco (similar to this model). I was a little surprised that an item that costs hundreds of dollars made a big point (a full one-foot sq sticker) that it included it’s own USB cable. I was pretty shocked by this, especially since the cost [...]
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Net Worth Update – August 2007
It’s the middle of the month and as regular readers know, that means it’s time to calculate my net worth. Last month, my net worth grew from 193K to 207K, an all-time high. As it turns out, the market was at it’s peak. What a different a month makes! This month I’m down to 206K. [...]
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iiProperty Tracks your Rental Properties
Occasionally readers will write me about a product or service that I might not have found otherwise. I review all of these products and try to figure out if and how they fit into the Lazy Man and Money theme. A large percentage of the ones that don’t seem to fit very well are pre-alpha [...]
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Why it’s the Right Time to Buy US Stocks
I’m watching Mad Money right about now and Jim Cramer seems to be claiming that the US Stock market is set for a big recession. The reason? The sub-prime lending that has sent stock down over the last couple of weeks is not going away any time soon. I just don’t see a recession coming. [...]
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Major League Baseball Stole My Money…
As some of my regular readers know, I’m a huge Red Sox fan (which hasn’t been easy this past week), living in Northern California. If I want to see Red Sox games, I have three choices… a $160 (or so) cable subscription, a Slingbox, or MLB.TV’s service to watch the games over the Internet. I’ve [...]
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Weekend Personal Finance Review – Red Sox Scare Edition
It’s August 11th and the Red Sox lead over the Yankees that was once 14 games is down to 5. It seems like this happens more often than not. The difference this time is that the Red Sox are still playing great baseball – good enough to be the #1 team in the ESPN Power [...]
