My Two Dollars » strange http://www.mytwodollars.com A place to discuss money...for the rest of us. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:15:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Weird Studies – Why Do We Waste Money On Stuff Like This?http://www.mytwodollars.com/2010/02/02/weird-studies-why-do-we-waste-money-on-stuff-like-this/ http://www.mytwodollars.com/2010/02/02/weird-studies-why-do-we-waste-money-on-stuff-like-this/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:30:25 +0000 David http://www.mytwodollars.com/?p=2406 Taller People Earn More Money. Your Brain Thinks Money Is A Drug. Pretty people make more money; ugly men make the least. Seriously – these are findings of studies about money, not headlines from The Onion. A friend of mine sent out a link to this article on Twitter yesterday, so I knew I had [...]

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No related posts.]]> http://www.mytwodollars.com/2007/12/04/time-to-invest-in-energy-extracted-from-lightning/feed/ 5 Prenups R Us – McCartney To Give Mills $51 Million Dollars.http://www.mytwodollars.com/2007/10/17/prenups-r-us-mccartney-to-give-mills-51-million-dollars/ http://www.mytwodollars.com/2007/10/17/prenups-r-us-mccartney-to-give-mills-51-million-dollars/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:57:55 +0000 David http://www.mytwodollars.com/2007/10/17/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 [...]

Prenups R Us – McCartney To Give Mills $51 Million Dollars. is an article from My Two Dollars

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