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02.29.08

NINJAs vs. Ninjas: Who Is Cooler and Why? Money Misc. | (1)
Ninjas are normally really cool. They are from the mammalian family, they fight MOST, if not ALL, the time, and their sole purpose is to do stuff and kill people (source). Can you say awesome? But some other types of NINJAs are totally lame, don't kill anything, and have absolutely no skills whatsoever. No, you won't find these different types of NINJAs in any epic films and absolutely no one sends their three year old child to the hill country to train to be one. That's because these NINJAs are people who have No ...

Tagged: ninjas
02.28.08

Rounding Out My Reading Money Misc. | Comments Off
Its been nice getting back into the posting and reading swing and I've dipped my finger into more than one pie this week. Here are some of the things I've found interesting around the financial web sites on the internet:An article over at the Financial Blogger got me thinking about how I fall into the trap of working harder. When I think about having a child and the costs associated with that it almost always ends up with me thinking that I will need to get second job somewhere. That is definitely not ideal since I ...
02.27.08

Pet Monkeys – The Financial Considerations Featured, Money Misc. | (19)
Image Taken From Whiplash Rides I have always wanted to own a monkey. They are are ridiculously awesome and having one as a pet would be even more awesome. I recently saw some videos about a sheep dog riding cowboy monkey named Whiplash that got me pretty pumped about the idea again. Since this is a blog about money, I wanted to see how owning a monkey would affect the bottom line of my family. Purchase Price: Did you know that you can buy a monkey on the internet? I didn't either until the all powerful Google told that you could. After a ...

Tagged: kids, life-style choices, monkey
02.26.08

Frugal Frustrations Frugality | (1)
This past weekend has provided some serious blogging material - we saw a foreclosure, filed our taxes, and we ran into some serious frugal frustrations. Our frugal frustrations all began earlier in the week when my wife failed to take full advantage of a certain CVS deal involving free hair care products. She didn't know that you could use coupons for buy one get one free (BOGO) items so the freeness that she had read about alluded her. She had also had a small mental error in taking advantage of the sweet Vons catalina (*snicker*) currently ...

Tagged: budget busters, coupons, lessons learned, saving tips

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