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October 2010

Scary links from the Personal Finance blogosphere

10.30.2010

Have a very Spooky Halloween! We only need SIX more like on Facebook to claim our short link! Like us, you won’t regret it. Alexa ranking update: We are at #582,878 a 10 fold improvement on the #5 million we started with 3 weeks ago. Here is a big hearty THANK YOU to all the readers and everyone at Yakezie! Yikes! Car problem, I hate car problems. Engine trouble dilemma, should Joe sell his car or fix it? I sold our ’98 Z3 when it broke down and cracked the head gasket so I think he should sell it, but [...]

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Book review: Strength Finder 2.0

10.29.2010

Strengths Finder 2.0 from Gallup research The premise of Strengths Finder 2.0 is that we all excel at certain things and it is essential to develop those natural talents. The book is divided into two sections. The first 30 pages goes over the reasons why we should develop strengths rather than fixing weaknesses and shows some examples. The rest of the book goes over the 34 strengths in detail. The meat of the book is actually the online test. The test is a series of questions that narrows down what your natural strengths are. When you buy a new book, [...]

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Portland Trailblazers Season Opening Extravaganza

10.27.2010

Free ticket to the season opening game! YES! Corporate is sponsoring some NBA tickets so I put my name in the hat and won one. I’m going straight there after work because I’m hoping they are giving away some stuff tonight. I love freebies. I always keep an eye out for free entertainment. There are always lots of local events going on in the Summer, but now that we are well into Fall, things are drying up. Here is a site I just discovered this year for free theater. The tickets are for shows in October. We saw Ah Wilderness! [...]

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retirebyforty’s PF blogosphere investigation

10.24.2010

Oh boy, I’m not looking forward to Monday. Readers, we need 12 more ‘like’ on Facebook to claim the short link for retireby40. If you have a Facebook account and like this blog then please head on over and click like. Thank you! I found some links that I had fun reading and commenting on recently. I read so many great posts this past few weeks, and it has been a blast. I need to do a better job of keeping track of the links though. Is a guy datable if he carries a $190,000 debt? Budgeting in the Fun [...]

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Special edition – Netflix separation anxiety attack

10.22.2010

*added sountrack, play while you read* *Netflix is pushing 180 four days after this was first posted.* *1/31/2011 update. I sold the 2nd half of my position at 208. I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out. * Thursday morning, I sat down in my slightly depressing gray cubical and logged in. What do I see? Netflix is up 20 points!!! Urghhhh!!! I guess I should be happy, but…. Lighting flashed though my head – this sucker is going to drop 20 points tomorrow, I gotta hedge my bets and figure out how options work RIGHT NOW and put [...]

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