Archive for August, 2009
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Restaurant Week for Fun and Profit
A friend mentioned to me that our vacation to Boston happened to coincide with Restaurant Week. For those who aren’t familiar with Restaurant Week (I’m not sure it’s nation-wide), Boston restaurants get together to offer several Prix Fixe menus at an attractive price (if someone can comment with the phonetic of how to pronounce Prix [...]
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Personal Finance Links (Newport Here We Come Edition)
So my wife and I are halfway through our trip to Boston. I’m sure you noticed the slowdown in posting recently. I have some article ideas, just not the time or Internet time to post them while running to see one family or friend or another. So I’ll leave with some links that will hopefully [...]
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How I Saved Hundreds in a Half Hour
I have a thing about paying for meat – I rarely pay more than $2.00/lb. If you shop around you can usually find a deal around that price on steak, chicken, and pork. Back to 2001, I’d often splurge on more premium cuts of meats – Porterhouse and T-Bone steaks when they came in under [...]
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Personal Finance Links (Bandwagon Red Sox Fans are Free Now Edition)
Since 2004, I’ve seen fans of Red Sox Nation quintuple in size. Some of the Red Sox fans who suffered through 1967 (and before), 1975, and 1986 – even 2003, have taken some offense to this. As someone who has just suffered from 1986 on (I was ten), I have to say that I love [...]
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Shell Credit Card Saves You 30 Cents a Gallon!
Wow how time flies… it was nearly three years ago that I wrote about Shell’s Credit Card promotion. Just the other day, a representative from Shell’s public relations firm Edelman contacted me. She wanted to tell me about Shell’s new promotion. If you’ve driven by one, you’ve probably seen the signs… “30 cents off a [...]
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Dog Day Care or Not Dog Day Care…
That is the question… Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of financial ruin, Or take arms against a sea of barks and bites… (Thanks for sticking around while I get a little pseudo-Shakespeare out of my system. I should be good now for the next 5 years.) The wife [...]
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Alternative Income Streams – August 2009
Another month is in the books and it’s time to report how much alternative income I have received last month. For those who haven’t been following my alternative income reports, it started as a way of tracking all my income that doesn’t come from a typical 9-to-5 job. That includes this website, interest from investment [...]
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Personal Finance Links (Harry Potter / Michael Edition)
This weekend my wife and I went to see Harry Potter. It’s a bit of shocker that it took this long. My wife is a huge fan to the point were we have Gryffindor dinner plates. I’m not as much of a fan. While I like it, Harry and I got off on the wrong [...]
