Archive for October, 2007
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Would you live in a Lazy Man designed community?
In reading and writing about personal finance over the 18 months, I’ve realized that frugality is the one of the most common topics. Sometimes I like to take a good thing and think of it in the extreme sense. How cheap could you live? Looking at my necessary expenses (it represents half of our total [...]
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Random Thoughts from my First day of Forced Freedom
For those who haven’t read, yesterday I was asked to resign from my day job. Today is the first day being “job free”, even if it wasn’t exactly by choice. I’m a lot happier than I thought I’d be. In fact, I’ve never felt so free. This could fade or get old, but right now, [...]
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Yesterday I Resigned. Will I Ever “Work” Again?
I fully expected to type that title… I just didn’t expect to type it now. I figured in 2-3 years it would be appropriate. If I typed it before that, it would be a joyous occasion – followed by the popping of champaign Champagne. So now I type it, but there is no champaign. Truth [...]
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Does FoodSaver Save You Money?
A month ago, my wife and I decided to take the plunge and purchase this deluxe FoodSaver model. For those of you unfamiliar with FoodSaver, it’s the brand name of a device that allows you to store food in vacuum sealed bag. This allows many foods to stay fresh two or three times longer than [...]
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Save Money on Clothing
It’s been quite a while since I’ve spent any considerable amount of money on clothing. Some of this is because I’m a software engineer and it’s perfectly normal to wear an old T-shirt. (One person in my office has a T-shirt from a sporting event 20 years ago that I’d really like to forget.) However, [...]
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Weekend links: Seven Ferraris and a Yugo Edition
This morning the wife and I went the grocery to pick up a couple of staples for the next week. We didn’t feel like getting all dressed up, so we put on some sweatpants and left the house to the local Safeway. We didn’t expect to find a row of Ferraris hanging out there, but [...]
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Emptying the Recycle Bin of Mind
Some things that have been going through my mind lately… Blogging I wonder how readers will react to a whole post of random thoughts. Perhaps they’ll let me know with a comments. I have about 18 design changes and features that I’d like to implement on Lazy Man and Money – if I had the [...]
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Afternoon Links: The Good Life on a Budget Edition
One of the reasons I started this afternoon links was to introduce readers to blogs and articles that I like. When I was just starting out a few blogs did a similar thing for me and it really helped me stick with writing when the stats weren’t there. One of these sites, I found from [...]
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Baby Bonds or Lazy Man’s Trust Fund
It seems like Baby Bonds are in the news. I’ve been reading at Dollar Roller and Money Smart Life. The idea seems to be that the government would open a $5,000 account for every newborn baby in the US. The money would grow and mature at the child’s 18th birthday. Through the power of compounding [...]
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How Much Passive Income Can You Buy With…
I’ve been extremely busy the past couple of days. Last night, I was home from work for about an hour before I had to get up and repeat the process again. What’s been keeping me busy? There’s a word deadline Monday, leading me to work more than usual. However, the bigger issue is sports and [...]
