Archive for May, 2008
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Amazon Friday Sale: Food Processor and Tinkerbell Edition
Each Friday Amazon has a sale on a few clearance items. In the past, I’ve found that you can a nice penny on them. Just looking around my kitchen, I saved some 70% on a Cusinart convection toaster oven, 82% on my flatware, and 57% on a martini set that I almost never use anymore [...]
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Net Worth Update – May 2008
It’s the middle of the month, so it’s a time to calculate my net worth. For the last 5 months or so, I’ve been pretty much break even – spending almost exactly what I’ve earned. This is not a long-term recipe for success, but it’s a lot better than many people do when starting a [...]
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How I Invested My Roth IRA This Year
About a month ago, I asked you to help me invest my money. I got a lot of great recommendations. As he did last year, Get Rich Slick had the most creative idea, involving options trading. Like last year, I’m sure it will do fantastic. I’m currently not entirely comfortable with options at this stage. [...]
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Get a Free $25 – Expires Tomorrow (5/15)
Last month, I wrote about Revolution Money Exchange and how you can get $25 for two minutes of your time. The 10,000 foot view is that the company has some very important people in the banking industry trying to start-up a competitor to Paypal. Paypal has been around a long, long, time and has the [...]
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4 Investing Ideas for Your Economic Stimulus Tax Rebate Check
Today’s post comes from Miranda Marquit. She writes about personal finances for YieldingWealth and edits debt consolidation information for Destroy Debt. The “economic stimulus” tax rebates have begun arriving, and now people are wondering how to spend them. Instead of blowing all that cash on something you don’t actually need, why not put part — [...]
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April Round-Up
Here are some of the top Lazy Man and Money articles for April: Inflation – a simple picture that I thought told 1000 words. Budgeting For a Tank – My April Fools joke – or was it? Thoughts on Middle Class – I’m surprised this did as much traffic as it did. I didn’t spend [...]
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Weekend Links: Mother’s Day Edition
Mother’s Day is tomorrow. Of course you already knew that. Since I already wrote my Mother’s Day post, I thought I’d share some great Mother’s Day songs with you. I did a little quick research and found “Mother Mother” by Tracy Bonham’s and “Mother” by Danzig. On second thought, let’s just scrap the cuddly song [...]
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Stamp Prices Going Up
The price of stamps goes up an entire penny on Monday. If you use a lot of stamps you may consider buying 100 of the Forever Stamps at $41. This will save $1 vs. buying them next week. I know a great many people that will consider this. Some of them will use 20 minutes [...]
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The Power of The Dream
“I’m the assistant to the traveling secretary. I’m going on the road trips with them! I’ll be on the plane… I’m working in Yankee Stadium! This is a dream, I’m busting, Jerry, I’m busting!” — George Costanza I’m excited… like George I’m busting. A friend and I have a business idea that we think simply [...]
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Lessons From the Microsoft – Yahoo Negotiations
The recently expired merger offer from Microsoft to Yahoo got me thinking about two things: what went wrong and what can we learn from it. On a lot of levels the merger makes a lot of sense. Microsoft needs to ramp up their search capabilities to compete with Google. Acquiring Yahoo would give them a [...]
