Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
JD over at Get Rich Slowly has written a book that is due to be released shortly. JD has built up a massive following at Get Rich Slowly and his writing style is top notch. If his book is half as good as his blog (I’m sure it’s just as good), it should be a great read!! You can pre-order it on Amazon.com right now!
February was a quick month, as it always is. Normally I’d expect it would be an average or below average month for income. This February turned out to be one of our higher income months and it wasn’t even a “3 paycheck†month for us. A combination of factors helped boost our income this month and helped us add a solid $5500 to our savings
It’s been a tough week. There’s really no other way to put it. Layoffs at work have hit closer to home than they ever have before and the overall mood in the office is absolutely horrible. Since last Friday I’ve been slowly hearing about many friends and really good employees that have been given their layoff slips. Why? Because the company has decided to try
Another week, another free breakfast. IHOP is giving away a short stack of pancakes today from 7 am to 10 pm. There probably won’t be quite the lines that there were for the Denny’s giveaway, but you don’t get as much food either. http://www.ihoppancakeday.com/pancake-day-details.html
In a sign that not all people are capitalistic monsters, Bob Moore, the founder of Bob’s Red Mill in Oregon, has decided to give his company to the 209 employees that work there. Bob could have sold the company for a large sum of money but decided that money isn’t everything. WOW! Bob has turned down a number of buyout offers over the years and
Previously I mentioned that we were working to get our daughter registered as a UK citizen. She is eligible for British citizenship because my wife was born in England, although she lives in the US now and is also a US citizen. As we thought about it a bit, we realized that we’d be foolish not to register our daughter as a UK citizen. While
My wife, Kate, was born in England and moved here when she was five with her parents. She became a US citizen many years later and now has dual citizenship in the US and in the UK. It never occurred to me that there could be any benefit to having citizenship in two countries until Kate flew to England a few years ago to visit
This week is a really tough week at work. People at all levels of the company are getting laid off so there is a lot of “staring at the ground†going on as people deal with the prospect of losing their income. While this has happened many times before at my large company, it’s hitting closer to home than it ever has before. I’m seeing
There’s a storm brewing that’s going to rain on Verizon and give you unlimited amounts of sunshine. Skype is now going to be available on a number of Verizon’s smart phones. This is good news for consumers like us. Whether the wireless carriers like it or not, the momentum is shifting in our favor. I think our wireless experience is going to come down to
According to multiple outlets, Heather Mills, ex-wife of Paul McCartney, has managed to burn through $54.5 million dollars in less than two years. Heather received the funds in her divorce from McCartney in 2008. Heather claims that plenty of the money was given to charities or “ethical businesses†and she also paid for a couple properties for her daughter. Just to put this in perspective.
