Archive for September, 2009
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Personal Finance Links (Bon Bini Aruba Edition)
This week, my wife and I are enjoying a vacation in Aruba. We’ve already implemented a few basic ways to save money in Aruba. One tip that I’d add is that you can give Texas de Brazil your e-mail address and get 50% discounts on your entire bill. That tip works at any of the [...]
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Amazon Friday Sale – Health Edition
It’s been close to 6 months since I put Lazy Man and Health into hiatus. With a new dog and a job, something had to give, and it was that. However, as I shift to a more blogging-oriented income, I might be looking revive it. What better way to dip my toe in those waters [...]
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Why Dollar Cost Averaging Sometimes Works?
I was reading about Dollar Cost Averaging over on The Digerati Life this morning and found something immediately interesting. The articles makes a good point that if you were to look at how our stock market has performed in the last year, you’d likely have some good gains with dollar cost averaging. The reason why [...]
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Get a Free $50 for Opening a 529 Educational Plan
Every now and again Ohio’s 529 Plan, CollegeAdvantage, offers a nice bonus program to bring in new customers. If you have kids opening a 529 plan is smart money management. If you are like me and only have nieces and nephews it is a great gift to give. Getting started with them may be difficult, [...]
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Reviewing my Necessary Expenses
When I started this blog more than three years, I got in a habit of writing about my net worth. As I mentioned on Monday, I stopped writing about my net worth for a variety of reasons. Along with keeping track of my net worth, I used to periodically review the expenses that I consider [...]
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Reviewing My Net Worth
It’s been a long time since I calculated my net worth – July 2008 to be specific. Why did I stop calculating it then? There were two main reasons: The big stock market drop – Things had dropped so much that it was depressing. The fall of housing prices also played heavily into it as [...]
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Hi Mom
Mom, I’m glad you followed the link I sent you in your Yahoo e-mail. When I choked on pizza a few weeks ago, I realized life is too short and I should share with you this part of mine. I had been hesitant to tell you about this blog for so long, because I put [...]
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Save Money on Perfume
I don’t know the first thing when it comes to perfume. However, Cologne Perfume Fragrance offered to provide some sage advice. Since perfume can get pricey, it’s good that they strongly believe in discount fragrances. If you like this article check out their website and consider subscribing to the RSS feed. Perfume can be an [...]
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MonaVie Sends a Second Cease & Desist
On Friday afternoon, MonaVie sent Corey Whitlaw an “official-ish” Cease and Desist Order (CDO) to my Lazy Man and Money e-mail address on the basis of his use of their trademark in my metatag keywords. I had an idea that the CDO might be coming. MonaVie had publicly tipped their plans in this Consumerist article. [...]
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MonaVie Sends a Second Cease & Desist
On Friday afternoon, MonaVie sent Corey Whitlaw an “official-ish” Cease and Desist Order (CDO) to my Lazy Man and Money e-mail address on the basis of his use of their trademark in my metatag keywords. I had an idea that the CDO might be coming. MonaVie had publicly tipped their plans in this Consumerist article. [...]
