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Rainy season
It looks like summer is over. Rain is falling. School is in session. And Kei and I are thinking about automobiles. With Kei at a full time job, I can’t use her Mazda 323 anymore. So I’m driving the blue gas guzzler to work most days. It’s a great reliable ride, but my internal calculus…
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Man tears up credit card offer, tapes up, and sends in..
If you ever needed a rationale for one of those paper shredders, here it is. Apparent ly this is true.
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I’m going to do it this time…
Get out of debt. OK. I understand it’s forboten to talk about money in public, makes you seem petty, small minded, bourgeois. But I don’t care. I’m throwing down the gauntlet to the credit card companies and their usurous 20-30% rates. No longer shall they have control over my life. I’ve set a date of…
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Boy in a housing bubble
Maybe it’s sour grapes for me, but doom and gloom says the Economist on housing prices. After the Fall and Global Housing Boom.
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Costco
I went in to Costco intending to only buy a $35 car battery, and walked out with $250 worth of shrink wrapped crap. How do they do it? Maybe it’s the tugboat sized shopping carts they make you push around. Nature abhors a vacuum, and a Costco shopper hates an empty shopping cart.