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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...] -
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Interesting MonaVie Story
Rather than go with a usual post on Friday, I’m going to share with you and e-mail that I got recently. I shed some major man-tears at the beginning of it. By the end, I was cheering.
I have a comment about Monavie… I was suckered into the scheme by well meaning people [...] -
Sprint Rebates Suck
Concluding my series of rants for the week, here is the final thing that happened to me last Friday to really put a dent on my weekend. Tomorrow we’ll resume with a subject that starts off as depressing, but ends pretty well, in my opinion.
On Friday, after finding out about how much Prometheus [...]
