Archive for the ‘Dumb Purchases’ Category
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Fashion Gone Wild!
In the past, I’ve written that I’m not one to celebrate the Sex and the City lifestyle. I have difficulty getting behind paying for a brand name without differentiating functionality behind it. I don’t know if it’s because I’m overly analytical or if there’s something Y-chromosomey about it. I look around at most of the [...]
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Public Storage: Problem Ignored
I love it when a blog post writes itself. I’m that Lazy. For instance, watch this commercial for Public Storage: I saw this yesterday. Fortunately, through the magic of DVR, I was set it up for my wife to watch. I asked her if she could guess why I wanted her to watch. She said, [...]
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iJango Scam
I was watching Tech Now this week and the technology show mentioned a scam that’s getting the Better Business Bureau’s (BBB) attention. I never really cared too much about these scams, because I assumed, like Nigerian princes, people were smart enough to avoid them. However, after realizing that a lot of people are getting scammed [...]
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Google Work at Home Scam
I don’t know if it’s because I wrote about what I considered a MonaVie scam in the past, but yesterday I had a new scam knock on my door twice. It would be understandable if it was related to juice or multi-level marketing… but it’s not. And sadly, I feel “victim” to it the first [...]
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A Brilliant Craig’s List Scam (Beware of DS Properties)
My wife and I are doing a little apartment shopping. Our place is fine enough, but we thought we might want to add little space… plus the rents have gone down a bit in Silicon Valley and we feel we can get more for our money. I particularly like Craig’s List for this purpose because [...]
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The Worst Gifts We Have Ever Gotten
Sometimes I have an idea for a particular article and I have think twice, before broaching the topic. Today, I thought about it four times. What kind of ungrateful turd I must be to talk about getting bad gifts! I firmly believe in not looking a gift horse in the mouth. Still, we have gotten [...]
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Door-To-Door Salesmen: If You’re Selling, I Ain’t Buying
I live in the nexus of salesmen – or so it seems. At least once a week, we get a visitor looking sell something. Two young ladies knocked on my door the other night. When I answered, they introduced themselves as Beth and Jenn. They had me guess why there at my door. I guessed [...]
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The Amazon that Stole Christmas
For those who celebrate Christmas, this is a special time of year. It’s been a slightly disappointing Christmas for me. I ordered a few of my wife’s gifts from Amazon.com. Despite having the order in by December 12th, Amazon had a mix-up and didn’t send the gifts on time. One of the items that I [...]
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Nintendo Wii Now Has An Options Market
I couldn’t believe this story today. Jim Goldman of CNBC is reporting that an options market for the Nintendo Wii has sprung up from nowhere. Jim says: A source at Best Buy tells me those tickets — think of them as “warrants” — can command prices from $300 to $1,000, according to what he’s witnessed [...]
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Rent a Pet: Only for the Wealthy
It looks like another company has stolen one of my ideas. It one of those ideas that you often just mention off-handedly, not seriously. However, now you can rent a pet from FlexPetz . I never really thought the rent-a-pet business would see light of day. I assumed there would be just too many background [...]
