Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
I know I’ve mentioned it before but I’ve always been interested in how marketing affects each of us. Billions and billions of dollars are spent every year to either directly sell to us, or to figure out what we want and what a company needs to do to get us to act. I’ve been compiling a list of slogans that I remember, either as a
I’ve often thought about this question. Here’s a nice answer. It was nice to see that Schwab does offer a guarantee, but who knows if they’d really cover my loss due to my account being hacked. http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfinance/columns I think that their non-technical business processes are key to protecting you against someone taking your money. By sending notification to your registered address for any address changes
I recently started running at the health club again. I had let my membership lapse since the club had been ratcheting up my yearly dues and I was a little annoyed about it. From a health perspective, I should have sucked it up and kept paying so that I could continue to use the gym. Well, I didn’t. I got a mailing from the club
Glad I’m not in her predicament. I’d say Dave gave her good advice. http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50422
When reading articles like this: http://www.kirotv.com/education/9297347/detail.html it reminds me that I haven’t started a 529 plan for my daughter. I spent about a half hour trying to figure out which plan is best and also requested information on the Washington state GET program, but I’m starting to get serious about opening a Kansas based 529 plan. It has a decent rating from the people that
About 6 years ago I bought a table top table saw. It was $129 and was pretty much the cheapest way to go. The table saw I really wanted was $450 plus and there was no way I could justify spending that much. So, I sucked it up and bought the cheapy. Add on the $40 table for it and I was up to $169.Â
My wife and daughter went for a walk this morning and were gone about 20 minutes when the phone rang. My wife had taken her cel phone and was out on her walk. She asked me to drive over to where they were to check out a garage sale. I’ll confess that I normally HATE garage sales. My stubborn point of view is that we
I suppose it was inevitable. My daughter has reached that precious milestone of wanting everything she sees in the store and she believes with the right approach, she’ll get it. I guess it’s been slowly evolving, but I really noticed it last time we went to the store. She’s almost 3 years old and firmly has a grasp on the idea that getting more “things” is
You know something. It’s about this time every year when my wife and I look at our calendar and realize that just about every weekend for our entire summer is booked. Between the birthday parties for all of our family, planned trips, and just random other “get togethers” we are pretty much packed. The other part of this story is that a lot of these
I got an email late last week from my hosting provider (Dreamhost) Apparently there was something going on with my database that was causing a spike on the db server. They opted to just disable my site on Friday. Well, I started getting a little frustrated when I hadn’t heard anything by Saturday night. By monday, I was getting mad. It just kind of struck