Archive for May, 2011
Monday, May 30th, 2011
This past week, my wife published a 430-plus page novel she had been working on in one way or another for the past twenty-two years. It's quite the milestone, and we're keenly interested and very excited in how things progress from here.
For a time, though, I had resigned myself to ...
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
This Kiplinger feature on MSN has a number of good ways that we waste money. Slide 12 of this series (these aren't my favorite ways of presenting things, but I see how it generates more ad impressions for MSN!) has the following suggestion:
If you're stashing your cash in a traditional ...
Posted in Investing, Making Money, Retirement, Saving | 2 Comments »
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
The final payments on my last Prosper.com notes have finally come in, and the total value of the notes I've invested in is now $0.00.
And it's going to stay that way.
This isn't Prosper's fault. It's mine. I'll explain.
I started investing in Prosper.com notes in June of 2006, as an experiment. ...
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Sunday, May 8th, 2011
I discovered something last night. Maybe this is old news for you, but then again, maybe not.
A little less than a year ago, sixteen states banned the sale of dishwasher detergents that contain more than 0.5% phosphorus. My state is one of those states. (For the record, the states are ...
Posted in Commentary, Three Green Rs | 10 Comments »
