Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
Rob Carrick with the Globe and Mail wrote an interesting article comparing what it was like to be a young person in 1984 versus what it’s like to be a young person in 2012. It was a great article and really makes you think, especially about the cost of getting an education. The reality is that he could have thrown in health care (if this
I turned 40 last year and, while the milestone was a little hard to swallow, I think I’m finally finding my “40’s groove”. It’s amazing how fast life happens. It seems like yesterday that I was sitting in a college dorm room with only a few dollars in my checking account thinking about whether I had enough for a takeout pizza and a six pack
If you read JD’s account of how he struggled to get health insurance, and don’t walk away thinking there is something horribly wrong with our health insurance system in the US, I would be very surprised. It shouldn’t be this way. It HAS to be fixed! http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2012/04/30/hunting-for-health-insurance/
I suppose it was going to happen sooner or later. We finally have an actual pet at our house. Yes, we now have a HAMSTER living in our home. It’s been a solid week now and, so far, the Hamster has only escaped once. While this doesn’t seem like much of an event for most of you reading this, it is a really big deal
As I posted about previously, we recently returned from vacation in Southern California. As part of our vacation package, we opted to get a rental car while we were there. Rental cars can be pretty reasonably priced but it’s always shocking to me how different the prices are from one company to another. We ended up renting a car from Avis for a total of
Well, we’re back from vacation and slowly getting back in to the swing of things. We had a very relaxing time visiting Southern California. We had a total of 9 days there and got a lot done while we were there. We spent 3 days at Disneyland (and California Adventure), 1 day at Legoland (was not impressed), and then a couple days basking in the
The lottery frenzy is starting to die down now that we’ve all heard three people won the largest jackpot in the history of the world. I’m sure those three people haven’t slept much in the past couple days but I’m also sure there are plenty of people that didn’t win, that haven’t slept much either. In the build up to last Friday’s drawing, every news
I always enjoy the photo streams that Business Insider puts together and today’s was definitely interesting. It’s a series of photos of people playing the scratch Lottery. Look at who’s buying and scratching them. The don’t exactly look like The Millionaires Next Door. It reminds me of the saying, “The lottery is for people that aren’t good at math”. http://www.businessinsider.com/who-uses-scratch-tickets-2012-3
Geesh. Just a few weeks ago, there were lots of houses for sale in my area. I even made an offer on one but, being the amateur that I am, didn’t make the offer attractive enough for the bank. I had a few others that I was eyeing hoping they’d drop a bit in price so I could make the numbers work on one of
In case you haven’t seen this, Amazon is trying to increase interest in their daily deals site and are offering a $10 gift card for $5 but it’s not going to last very long. You better get over there quick!! http://local.amazon.com/bellevue/B007KCX25Q