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Restaurant Pricing is very elastic, and early bird specials are proof of this.When we lived in Pompano Beach, we used to make fun of the old people, lining up at 4:30 for their "Early Bird Specials!" at the local restaurants. ...
Saturday, June 30, 2012
How to End Up Living In Your Parent's Basement.
While owning your own home is not the "American Dream" neither is living here.A young man sent me a rather snotty comment the other day, to the effect that he was really rich, and his Dad made lots of money, so why not have Dad co-sign...
Peel-Off Plastic Protective Shipping Covers
Most electronics, appliances, and even cars, come today with plastic protective shipping covers, to keep parts from getting scratched. Remove these before putting the product into service.A reader asks, in response to...
Laws and Rules
Most folks talk about the Law, without really knowing what it means.In the debate over the new health care law, people complain that there is "uncertainty" in the new law. This is not really true - the law has been enacted and...
Friday, June 29, 2012
Should You Be AFRAID of the New Healthcare Law?
Lions and Tiger and Bears! Oh, My!As I have noted consistently, FEAR is one of the least trustworthy emotions. While it may protect you from danger on occasion, in most cases, it simply makes things worse, or prevents...
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Vanity Tags? Uh, No.
What sort of slave polishes their shackles and is proud of them?Vanity tags were a real novelty in 1970 - very few States offered them, and few folks bothered to get them. However, in the last two or three decades, the use of...
The Waiting Game - Please Wait!
Making you wait is often a means of establishing power in a relationship.I have noted before that in many transactions, making the customer wait is part of the strategy used by the salesperson to establish power in the relationship...
The End of Outsourcing?
Folks in India are making so much money in the outsourcing business that today, this is what a "starter home" looks like in India!I get phone calls, e-mails and even letters from India, asking me to outsource my work there. ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
50 Million Americans on Welfare? Not Really...
Note: This is a re-posting from January 9, 2012Kelly's satiric take on the traditional view of Welfare Queens, from The Onion.One number bandied about by conservatives is that "50 Million Americans are on Welfare!" which is an alarming...
The Salaryman Trap
A salary job can be a real trap - in more ways than other jobs!I wrote before, in the Job Trap, how having a "job" to earn a living can be a dead-end, in that it encourages you to view money in terms of monthly cash-flow instead of...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Sad Sack
There are a lot of Sad Sacks in the world. Are they depressed, or evil, or what?On some news sites, you see interesting comments, some of which are clearly trolls. No matter what the topic of the story is (e.g.,...
When "What If" Becomes "What Is"
Shit happens, as they say - and often unexpectedly. Are your finances prepared for unforeseen events - or even foreseen ones? Think about this before buying some new toy like a car or a cell phone.In a recent "Oh Woe is...
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