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To Save Energy, California To Limit The Size TV You Can Buy.

I don’t have much to say, really, but I will say that I think this is absurd. Yes, I am an environmentalist. And yes, I am a liberal who is OK with some government regulation. But not selling certain size TV’s to customers in order to save some energy? Ridiculous.
On November 18th the [...]

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Why Rent Books For Free When You Can Pay For Them Instead?

In the category of “what a waste of money“, a company has come out with a book rental service that acts like Netflix, except for 2 things – 1. It costs more money and 2. I already have a place I rent books from – it’s called the library. And the library lets me [...]

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Why Do We Use “Bacon” And “Dough” When We Talk About Money?

From a TRowePrice newsletter I found the other day, pretty interesting facts:
Bacon – Meat was expensive in the early 1900’s, and it was common, should a family want to impress its guests, to buy a bit of pork and show it off by hanging the bacon in the kitchen. The inference was a sign [...]

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Time To Invest In Energy Extracted From Lightning?

I just got this spam email, check it out, it’s a new one to me:
DEAR SIR
GREETINGS
LOGIC-CO IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL COMPANY HAS RENEWABLE ENERGY: ELECTRICITY.EXTRACTED FROM THE LIGHTNING:
THE RATE OF LIGHTNING IS 100 FLASH PER SECOND ALLOVER THE GLOBE. IF USA HAS 1% OF THE TOTAL FLASHES THIS MEANS 1 FLASH PER SECOND. FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE, [...]

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Prenups R Us – McCartney To Give Mills $51 Million Dollars.

If you were worth billions, had just lost your wife to cancer, and were having a quickie wedding to an unknown actor/activist….would you have written up a prenup? Yea, me too.
British rock and roll icon Paul McCartney has offered to pay Heather Mills a divorce settlement of $51 million, the Mirror reported Wednesday.
Most of [...]

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Received An eCard From The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Huh?

Never heard of them? Me neither. Funny how they are using Sony’s Image Station though to send out their “official” information:

Dear sir, Take notice that based on the federal government inauguration of this committee which extended to all Africa countries and Europe United State, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission – (EFCC) have [...]

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Best Google Search Of The Week: How Long Does Credit Card Debt Last If I Run Away.

This week a very interesting Google search landed a visitor on the My Two Dollars page “Why You Should Never Ignore Your Credit Card Debt.” The result was #3 on the page and exact thing this person was looking for was
“how long does a credit card debt last in uk if i run [...]

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If This Isn’t Enough To Make You Stop Eating Fast Food, I Don’t Know What Is.

Mind you, I eat fast food about 2 or 3 times a year and that’s only on a road trip when we have run out of food. Even though the food is cheap (and gross), I prefer to spend my money on real food even when it costs more. But I just came across this [...]

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If You Ask For A Raise, Will You Get Killed? You Would If You Worked Here.

In East Point, Georgia, the owner of a used car business has been accused of killing two employees because they were asking for a raise. Damn, thats kind of harsh. Maybe he should have tried “Money is tight, let’s talk in 6 months…”. Guess that didn’t occur to him.
From CNN:
Milinavicius, who was [...]

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Eight Random Things About Me You Don’t Need To Read.

Clever Dude tagged me on July 3rd to come up with 8 random things about myself. Normally I don’t do these tag lists, but since it’s Clever Dude and its in the personal finance world, I will take one for the team. However, I won’t be passing along the tag!
1. I graduated with a Criminal [...]

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Overpriced Crap Of The Day – Plastic Dinosaur.

For only $55,000, you too can recreate Jurassic Park in your backyard. Seriously…who buys crap like this? I mean, it is sorta cool, but come on now….

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Ladies – When Not To Accept Free Room And Board.

When it is coming from a guy like this one, you might want to think twice. In fact, I would empty my bank account to not have to stay somewhere like this…
Used to be a formal model though…uh huh.

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Funny Picture Monday And Nothing To Do With Money.

Sorry, I could not resist sharing this, even if it has absolutely nothing to do with money or personal finance. I was just at the library getting some books and went in to use the restroom. This is what I saw:

Yea, no kidding it’s Out Of Order. I cannot believe they actually had [...]

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My New Income Source – Selling Tumbleweeds.

People think of EVERYTHING…these people sell the tumbleweeds you see by the side of the road while driving through the midwest. They are selling large ones for $25, medium ones for $20, and small ones for $15, plus shipping. Linda Katz, the owner of the business, says she’s making about 30 tumbleweed sales [...]

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Housing Market Gone Bonkers – This Is What I Am Dealing With.

Yes, this is close to where I live, and yes, it actually is for sale at the bargain discount price of $869,000:

The 576 sq. ft. home features one bedroom, one bathroom, a one car garage and Old Glory, proudly flapping about like amber waves of grain. This is the crap we deal with here [...]

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