From the monthly archives:

November 2007

Check your inbox because I’m happy to announce that I emailed the winners of the $200 giveaway! Thank you for joining and remember to keep subscribed to my RSS feed and email because more giveaways are coming as the subscriber count passed 600!!
Note that I didn’t list the email pattern as done in the [...]

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No matter how frugal we are, everyone eventually ends up spending money. Christmas is coming up so the need to make difficult buying decisions will fall onto our shoulders. It is at these times that people who are frugal can really spend much less money than people who aren’t.
It is also during these holiday times [...]

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Billy always convinces me to buy and sell stocks at the perfect time.  He must be a billionaire because he always asks me to give some of it up as he probably doesn’t need anymore.  When there is a selloff in stocks, he tells me to follow because that’s probably when the market is at [...]

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Hurry up if you still haven’t become an email subscriber yet because the chance to win the $200 giveaway is ending this Friday!!!
Other than getting updates through email, you can also subscribe to my feed and leave a comment on the page that’s only accessible through the RSS!!
Better join now before it is too late [...]

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Let’s face it. We as individual investors are very afraid right now. Did you notice all the articles from us personal finance bloggers about the market throughout the year and the lack of them right now? Part of it is because we all want to cover the thanksgiving spending etc etc, but [...]

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Ever since I lost my GPS a few months ago, I bought another 5 GPS devices for myself! Although I didn’t lose any one of them, I kept buying another one for the same reason! This is the story of my GPS device purchasing mania.
Purchase #1
I went to Costco 6 months ago to [...]

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It’s been a good 4 day holiday but work starts again tomorrow! I feel a little bummed that sleeping in tomorrow isn’t an option which reminds me of the times when it was the end of the Christmas or summer holidays when I was still in school! I remember that I used to [...]

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Black Friday is behind us so how much did we spend on this holiday sale? Did any of you actually line up the night before at your favorite store to make sure you get that special discounted product? I will be the first to vote and I’m sure everyone looks forward to seeing [...]

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Busy day!

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Happy thanksgiving!!!
Since most of us are in the US, we will be enjoying our holidays for the rest of the week. Speaking of holidays, US has one of the fewest paid holidays in the world! For example, I only get off 7 public holidays this year:

Monday, January 1
New Year’s Day

Monday, May 28
Memorial [...]

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My Citibank credit card updated their website recently and something very important changed. I noticed that instead of showing the statement balance, it is showing the current balance (see red cross in picture). I never knew the difference before but current balance apparently is the statement balance + unbilled balance.
The statement balance on [...]

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My Uncle buys gift cards from coffee shops for his own use. He told me that it is very convenient because he goes to the coffee shop everyday and can just order his latte and charge it on the card. When the card runs out of money, he can just reload it with [...]

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Recently, my dad quit smoking after years of us encouraging, motivating, persuading, yelling, and cussing (you name it, we’ve done it). It was a struggle for so many years, but the fear of sickness finally convinced him to quit smoking. Many of us smoke (in fact, one third of all male in this [...]

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To validate the benefit of more exercises through the use (play) of my Wii, I went to the golf course yesterday.  I was amazed that I can hit the ball more consistently and that the ball traveled further!  I had to adjust to the new found distance but it was a nice surprise!  This is [...]

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