Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
Here is a post that was previously posted back in March of 2005. If you haven’t reviewed the ELYM archives, you may want to take a peek. ———- As you’ve read through all of these articles, have you found yourself thinking that you should have done a few things different? Could you be better off now if you had made different decisions earlier on? Do
Ahhh, the many things I’d like to buy. Near the top of the list is a GPS unit. Do I really need one? Nope. This is clearly in the “WANT” category but I’d still like to buy one. Maybe you already own one? Your price point was obviously higher than mine. I almost bought a GPS unit when I purchased my car a couple years
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070502/ap_on_re_us/warehouse_ban This one is amazing to me. This guy lives about 6 or 7 miles from my house and was running a secret private bank out of his house with more than $28M in assets. How could you trust a guy running a bank out of his house? I sure couldn’t. http://www.kirotv.com/money/13241247/detail.html High IQ’s don’t always mean wealthy individuals. I could have written this
It’s been awhile since I’ve mentioned how things are going with the fire claim on my parent’s house. You’ll recall that late last year my parent’s had a massive fire at their house in the middle of December and then my father passed away from a heart attack on New Years Eve. Since then, I’ve been handling all of the details for my mother to
Thanks to some good friends of ours, my daughter has a whole new wardrobe. Our daughter is burning through clothes at a much faster rate now that she is attending daycare. She gets to spend lots of time doing arts and crafts, and playing outside. I think the playground is where the majority of the damage happens, but that’s a small price to pay for
I was talking to a friend of mine and she was saying that she and her husband were trying to decide whether they should try to pay off their house in five years or not. They currently have a 15 year loan and have an excess $3K plus per month that could be used to pay down their mortgage. They also have a couple of kids that are
I’ve been following Circuit City ever since I read that they fired 3400 of their highest paid workers and brought in a bunch of “new hires” at a lower pay rate. At this point, I would say that their strategy is failing. Go figure. Get rid of your best people and your sales miss your forecasts. It’s amazing to me that they really believed getting
Five Cent Nickel is celebrating it’s two year anniversary with a great promotion! Nickel is giving away some outstanding prizes (not your typical free book type promotion). I’ve been reading Five Cent Nickel for just about the whole two years it’s been around. I started my blog almost two years ago as well and back then there weren’t nearly as many PF blogs around. Nickel