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ch-ch-ch-changes

By , October 29th, 2006

As you may have noticed, Nate and I decided to make some changes to the blog this weekend. These were long over due and we think that it looks a lot better (we’ve always known we needed the change from the basic look we had before, but time has always been an issue). While I [...]


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How The Rich Stay Rich

By , October 25th, 2006

An interesting piece over at Mother Jones from last May listing a number of statistics about money that make you pause and think. It’s certainly worth a visit to read them all (over forty), but here are a few that caught my eye: Oscar performers and presenters collectively owe the IRS $1,250,000 on the gift [...]


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$2 Million In Hidden Jewels – Secrets Of The Alchemist Dar

By , October 23rd, 2006

Michael Stadther is at it again. In 2004 he released a book titled A Treasure’s Trove that had clues hidden within the pages and anyone who could decipher them would find 12 18-karat in gold tokens hidden throughout the continental United States (which could be redeemed for one-of-a kind jewels of the characters in the [...]


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Penny Worth More Than 1 Cent

By , October 18th, 2006

It was a few months ago when copper prices rose to the point that the pre-1982 pennies that were made out of 95% copper had a copper content value of more than 1 cent. This week zinc prices reached $1.80 per pound mark (what pennies are made out of today) which means if you melt [...]


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What Personal Finance Blogs Are Worth

By , October 18th, 2006

I was fooling around with the new Text Link Ads Calculator (we do not use Text Link Ads on this blog, but do use them on some of our other sites) and realized that this gives a peak into the value of personal finance bloggers sites in comparison with others. While the actual numbers given [...]


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Plane Over Bill Gates Home

By , October 9th, 2006

I was fooling around looking at photos at local live when I came across this quite interesting photo which actually caught a small plane flying over Bill Gate’s house (click on the photo to enlarge): 1. Points to Bill Gates house 2. Points out the plane caught in the photo What are the chances? Catching [...]


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Why People Refuse Free Money

By , October 9th, 2006

For those that have an interest in why we make the financial decisions that we do, an interesting article on neuro-economics was recently published in the TimesOnline that is definitely worth a read: Imagine that you are sitting next to a complete stranger who has been given £10 to share between the two of you. [...]


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Easiest Way To Fold A T-Shirt

By , October 4th, 2006

For those looking for the easiest way to fold a t-shirt perfectly every time, here it is. If I can do this, absolutely anyone can. My wife taught me this (she’s from Japan) when she got tired of my folded t-shirts of all shapes and sizes. Enjoy and pass along!


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Blogoversary – 1 Year

By , September 21st, 2006

Kind of hard to believe that I have been blogging here for an entire year. As with a lot of this, time has just flown by. As I seem to do with most anniversaries, I’ve taken a bit of time to sit back and reflect on what was good and what wasn’t so good over [...]


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Neuroeconomics

By , September 12th, 2006

For those of you that have an interest about how the brain affects our decisions in regard to money, you’ll want to take some time and read a thorough (but rather long) article on neuroeconomics in the New Yorker. A few of the observations from the piece: On people’s dislike of losing money: During the [...]


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