Archive for the ‘Dumb Purchases’ Category
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The $25,000 Meal
After reading about Get Rich Slowly’s post about how sometimes it’s okay to splurge, I came across this $25,000 meal.
“Wine lovers regularly organize exorbitantly expensive tastings in New York, London and Japan but such events are not as common in Thailand, where it would take the average schoolteacher five years to earn $25,000.
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Cable Cars in San Francisco are EXPENSIVE!
I was heading to San Francisco’s Chinatown for dinner last night. The easiest way from Union Square appeared to be to hop on the cable car and take it about a 15-20 blocks. Price for the ticket is $5 a piece or $10 for me and my fiancee.
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Expensive Day Partially Averted…
As mentioned in my previous post, I planned on buying a new high-end cell phone as well as a upgrade a broken plasma TV on the same day. Worst case scenario, I saw this costing me $1000. That’s a tough hit that you don’t see too many personal finance bloggers make in [...]
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An Expensive Day Coming Up Tomorrow…
According to many message board it seems the Palm Treo 700 is going to be available from Sprint tomorrow. Since I’m out of contract, I hope to get it for the $399 price that’s for new subscribers. I expect that it won’t quite be easy and I’ll have to argue or threaten to [...]
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Back from a Long Expensive Weekend
I’m sorry I left you without a post this weekend. I went to New York City. I enjoy it as long as it’s in chunks of 3 days or fewer. Any more than that and I start to get claustrophobic. The other thing about New York is that everything is so [...]
