Archive for July, 2009
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Cash For Clunkers: What’s Your Take?
I didn’t even get a chance to write about the Car Allowance Rebate System (better known as Cash for Clunkers) before the program before news came out last night that today may be the last day of the program. While the program was supposed to run until Nov. 1st, the 1 billion in funding for [...]
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Estate Planning: Are You Ready When Your Time Comes?
My close call with death last week instantly had me thinking… is my family ready in case I bite the big one? (By the way, I never understood that expression – what are you biting exactly?) I have a small family just my wife and Jake, our dog. My wife earns a great income as [...]
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Use Your Citi Card for $5 Concert Tickets to Blink 182, Nickelback, Depeche Mode
Since my near deadly accident last Friday , I’ve had Nickelback’s “What if Today was Your Last Day” stuck in my head. Maybe it’s unrelated to that incident and more related to the fact that it’s played approximately 5 times an hour on any Top 40 radio station. Either way, even my trick of singing [...]
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What If There Was No Tomorrow
On Friday, I almost died. I failed at two very basic things that we all have great experience in: eating and breathing. I choked on a some pizza crust. I was around a lot of people at the day job I’ve been contracting for. If I had been working from home, you wouldn’t be reading [...]
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Personal Finance Links (I Almost Died Edition)
I’m gong to keep think intentionally short. On Friday, you almost read the last post in Lazy Man and Money history. I literally almost died. I’ll go into it in more detail for tomorrow’s post. It might even be a whole weeks’ worth of writing. I don’t want to overshadow the great posts below. Money [...]
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Oakland Almost Stumbles Upon California’s Budget Fix
News came out this morning that Oakland is going to start taxing medical marijuana. It will be the first city in the US to do so after garnering 80% of the vote. I found it interesting that there was almost no formal opposition to this. Oakland’s City Council was fine with it. They get money. [...]
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Save Money on Car Insurance
Unhappy with what you are paying each year for auto insurance? Car insurance is one of those things topics that I’m extremely Lazy with. It seems like there are a billion factors. Sometimes it seems like you can change one area of your insurance by a small amount and save hundreds – and then in [...]
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Personal Finance Links (How To Fix a Yard Sale Edition)
Earlier this month, I said that I was exploring two new business ideas. I’d like to announce the first today. Earlier this week, I’ve started posting, How To Fix. I stumbled on the availability of the HowToFix.org while just doing some typical searches for cool domains. I was pretty surprised to find it available. I [...]
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Sprint Rebates Suck
On Friday, I came home to following letter: This letter is in response to the Palm Pre that I bought and activated within the Sprint store – an hour after it became available. How dare they say that I haven’t activated in time? Without causing injury to other Sprint customers it would have have been [...]
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Apartment Flooded!
Last week, there was one ordeal after the other at Lazy Man Central. My wife’s condo back in Massachusetts had a flood. A pipe burst in the bathroom. For a short while it was condemned – deemed not suitable for living. It’s never a good situation. The tenants are unhappy. My wife is unhappy. The [...]
