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Starring Audrey: Week of August 21st, 2006
Fantasy versus the cold, hard facts marks this week’s theme. As the season begins to change, we get a chance to evaluate and take stock of our state of affairs…or stick our fingers in our ears and hum the theme to Cinderella’s ball. With the new moon imminent and in standoff to Neptune, it’s probably…
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Rent Checks and the Plight of the Poor
“History doesn’t repeat itself – at best it sometimes rhymes.” — Mark Twain I own a couple of rental properties and have given candid opinions about using real estate as part of our retirement plan. At the moment, I’m having trouble with one of my tenants and I’m at the point of slapping her with…
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Money & Mates: Q&A with Suzanne & Wendy
Suzanne and Wendy are bloggers that I have read for a few months and truly enjoy taking a peek into their lives from day to day. This day, they allow us an extra special look at how finances play a part in their lives and relationship. Thank you Suzanne and Wendy! If you want to…
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Ubertrends in Banking
“Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.” — Ludwig von Mises Here’s a good resource mentioned by a friend that knows a thing or two about trendspotting. He was wearing trucker caps months before Ashton Kutcher so it makes sense that he would turn me onto Ubertrends.…
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Dreaming Big for a Tiny Home
I have to say it was wonderful reading about tiny homes in the recent issue of Time magazine. This has been something surfgirl and I have been talking about. We’ve talk to a family member of hers about buying a couple acres and builing our own little world on it, complete with tiny home or…
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The Cost of Procrastination
“My mother told me, “Judy, you’ll never amount to anything because you always procrastinate.” I said, “Oh yeah? Just wait!” — Judy Tenuta I am amazed at how easy it is to procrastinate. In my line of work I receive letters from the IRS regularly”on behalf of clients. However, this time the IRS notification was…
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Planning to Death: Pre-Need Funeral Arrangements
“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.” — Epicurus With all the talk about how Baby Boomers are ill-equipped for retirement, I find it interesting that at the same time, there’s been a push to get them to…
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Excess: Buying More than We Really Need
“A Big Mac – the communion wafer of consumption” — John Ralston Saul In a recent issue of the New Yorker, James Surowiecki wrote a commentary about the US defense budget on The Financial Page. He mentioned an analogy about excess where some social scientists did an experiment in an apartment building. He writes, “One…
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Yard Sale Hunting Tips
$$ There are two kinds of garage sales — the ones where people want to make money and the ones where people want to get rid of stuff. The object is to find the ones where people want to get rid of stuff. $$ Get a map and newspaper and map out your route. Xeroxing…
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Money is a Map
“Even the great get greater by doing more of it.” — Colleen Wainwright A Guest Post by Colleen Wainwright… our gay-friendly friend and writer at Communicatrix. Here are her thoughts on money: I have a strange relationship with money. On the one hand, I’ve been fortunate enough never to run completely dry of it. My…
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