Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
I’ve been reading about Circuit City in the news the last couple days. Apparently they have a new strategy to lay off about 3400 store workers that they believe they are paying over “market” wages to. So, these people, who have undoubtedly been good performers for them (which is how they got pay raises) are just tossed out on their ears. That hardly seems like a
Jeffrey Strain over at TheStreet has a great article titled: 10 Reasons You Aren’t Rich. Here are the 10 reasons but you need to go over to the article to see the detail behind each one. Great post and it’s so simple. This really is the secret in a nutshell. 1. You Care What Your Neighbors Think 2. You Aren’t Patient 3. You Have
I am so pissed, I can hardly see straight. I have been using a Dell 962 printer for the last couple years. I’ve intentionally been conservative about printing color printouts so that I can preserve my color cartridge and make it last longer. Well, apparently Dell doesn’t like you to do that. I’m getting an error that says, “Right cartridge incorrect”. I had this happen
There is a great post over at Scottburns.com about Home Depot. I remember reading Scott’s column regarding his experience at Home Depot and I just shook my head. I have had my share of frustrating experiences there. Most of the time it’s related to the length of time it takes to get through the checkout lines. I’ve literally sat there for 25-30 minutes to get
Ken Lay’s children inherit 4000 pensions: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/56645 America Online To Build Three Million Home Pages For The Homeless: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29147 Geico To Save 15% Or More By Discontinuing Advertising: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33027 Illegal Immigrants Returning To Mexico For American Jobs: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/47978 And a visit to the Onion is never complete without some Knowledge from Hebert Kornfeld, the baddest azz Accountz Receivable Playa in the world: (If bad words
You gotta read this article: http://www.stuffed.co.nz/index.php?option=com_cont… Apparently Glen has never been all that good at math. He set up a promotion at the grand opening of a California Porsche store where if you bought one new Porsche, you got the second one free. Why doesn’t this stuff ever happen to me? I could have gone for an extra $120,000. I especially like Glen’s financing plan
As you can tell from reading the title, I confess to being 3 years late opening a college savings account (529) for my daughter. I guess I found myself a little confused about exactly how to go about it and never spent the time to figure out what the best plan of attack would be. Well, I finally did some analysis and jumped on board.
Okay, this has nothing to do with personal finance but I couldn’t help putting it up. This woman is bat sheet CRAZY!$#%. She is being charged with a hate crime for throwing boric acid on her neighbors during a dispute. This reminds me of so many incidents from my days as a police officer. Anyway, you’ve got to watch it all the way through. I
Love it or hate it, I still enjoyed reading it: http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11… I think I found the most interesting sentences to be: “In Brentwood, where the houses start at $3 million, the housewives complain about what a terrible country America is. In Clinton, South Carolina, where the textile mill closed fifteen years ago and there is real hardship, the young men still believe in America and
The new Forbes list of billionaires is out. Apparently this was a banner year for billionaires. It’s no surprise that Bill Gates tops the list. Pretty amazing to think that the richest man in the world lives 30 minutes from me. I really should stop by and say hello sometime. Someone that surprisingly wasn’t on the list this year: ME. Okay, maybe it isn’t so