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Ever since I decided to become a full time blogger, I’ve spent many hours worrying thinking about my finances.  It’s not that I believe Emma and I will starve one day, but what will happen when my income is cut to 25% of what it originally was?  How will I feel when the [...]

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My wedding is fast approaching and things will have to start are starting to fall into place! My fiancee and I will do food tasting at the banquet hall tonight to finalize the food menu. This means that the per table expense will be worked out and I should have an update for [...]

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My delayed bag gave me an opportunity to make very good money but I decided not to because it was the right thing to do. A few days ago, I wrote about having a delayed bag with United Airlines, making my golf trip not as fun as it could’ve been. Annoyingly, the airline [...]

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I’m in Virginia Beach right now, typing to you because my golf outing is canceled due to the fact that I do not have my golf clubs! I was supposed to arrive last night by plane with my golf clubs to meet some friends over here but United Airlines apparently routed my golf clubs [...]

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A few days ago, Money and Such tagged me on the blog-meme started by plonkee on seven random things about me so here are a few things that you might or might not know about me:
1. I have a bachelor and masters degree in computer engineering but I’m now in Sales. Many people think I’m [...]

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The second you finish reading the title, you are probably thinking “Of course YES! What a stupid question!” However, I urge you to think about it a little longer and stay with me by reading on.
This financial blog is filled with readers having the dream of early retirement. We want to pursue our [...]

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I helped my company closed a very fruitful deal with one of our customers and I am contemplating whether I should buy something for myself to celebrate.  These “celebration slurge” seem to be extremely common in our society but how should we control the amount that we spend when these events happen?
I always hear about [...]

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I’m getting ready to get to the airport to go back to the states!  One thing I always wondered is what people do with the extra foreign currency that they still have at the end of the trip?
Do you keep them for your next trip, give them to relatives or try to use up the [...]

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Hi everyone! I am very tired right now since my visit in Taiwan has been “event-packed” but I want to tell everyone about my trip. I found that Taiwan and United States has a very different living standard! For example, I had a very nice dinner (Japanese Hot Pot, also called [...]

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I’m sure many of us are familiar with rent increases and I understand that this is necessary because the maintenance, cost of land go up through time. However, I got a letter a letter that has similar language as the following 3 times in the last 13 months.
… As a result, this letter [...]

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I am one of those people that go everywhere to get my haircut done. Instead of going to a salon and staying with the same hair stylist that I am comfortable with, I choose where I get my haircut because of promotions, coupons, availability.
Over the weekend, I went to get a haircut from Sport [...]

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I just want to let everyone that is frustrated know that the Wells Fargo Online Website is Down right now.  I know it doesn’t give anyone comfort in knowing this but at least we know it’s not our connection that is at fault.  No one knows exactly what is wrong yet (not even Wells Fargo) [...]

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It is 7:30am on a Saturday morning and I’m sitting here thinking to myself how I’m going to spend my morning (and rest of the day, rest of the weekend). I realized that most of the activities I can think of to kill time requires money (no surprise). I never really thought about [...]

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A few things happened on Sunday that made me realized the big difference of the way I treat my money since starting to write on my personal finance blog.
First, I went to Golf Smith to get a pair of golf gloves since my current glove is so worn I might as well not use one. [...]

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