You: Uh-oh.
What?
You: You’re not going “there,” are you?
No. I have consistently tried my best to suppress any political leaning from my blog postings, books (I say books, not book, because I am working on book number two right now), and seminars.
You: But you must care, right? You do vote, don’t you?
Yes and yes. However, my [...]
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You: Did she irritate you?
Actually, she really irritated MoneyMonk, as she writes about in her recent post Can I afford it: Suze Orman, I’m mad at you!, which, like my review of Upromise (Upromise Underdelivers) is featured in this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance.
As you may already be aware, one of the most popular segments [...]
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You: No, they don’t.
But they do influence your spending.
You: Sometimes, I guess. I hadn’t really given it much thought.
I haven’t written about it in a while. But entertainment spending irrefutably is tremendously impacted by those you go out with. For others, the amount they spend is also influenced by who they are with for [...]
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This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance featured two articles whose titles alone, I confess, got me to click on their stories. The first title, The Hell With You Dave Ramsey! I’m Paying My Highest Interest Debt First! was no less shocking then Number One Frugality Tip: Don’t Be a Woman.
You: Are you for real?
A shocking [...]
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Market timing is dangerous.
You: You’ve said so before.
Indeed, it’s one of the key themes of my chapter about investing in Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck. I bring the topic up again now for two reasons. First, because there are many people these days who, due to the yucky markets –
You: Yucky?
Yes, yucky. Yucky is an increasingly [...]
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Change is good.
It was finally warm enough to go on a hike yesterday. (Well warm enough for a short hike wearing a hat and gloves anyway).
There’s less than a month to go until April 15 (Yes, I do taxes and my clients are thrilled.).
Michigan won a NCAA tournament basketball game for the first time since [...]
I don’t think so. Neither does David, as he writes in Are Savers Dooming the Economy? NO!!!
You: You don’t buy the argument that the savers among us are making the recession worse? You don’t think people should spend more to help the country move on economically?
As I’ve said before, there’s nothing fundamentaly patriotic about spending [...]
A few random tibits today:
First, Jeremy Simon – a reporter for Credit Cards.com – is looking for consumers who have used extreme ways to pay off credit card debt (earning money from medical experiments, selling family heirlooms, etc.). The wilder the better. If any of you might be interested in sharing their stories on this [...]
I frequently offer an opportunity for my seminar audience members to receive $35 by participating in a 30 minute focus group to occur immediately after the presentation. I’ve always found it oddly humorous that almost every hand goes up to volunteer when I make the announcement. When I subsequently reveal that the focus group [...]
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I hope you had a nice weekend. Considering we didn’t leave town, I had one of the busiest weekends in recent memory. Saturday was hobby day as I played basketball, watched my older daughter at ballet, took both daughters to their respective swimming lessons, observed (and perhaps helped a little) as about a dozen princesses [...]
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