Month: August 2011

Month: August 2011
General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Health Before Wealth

I was watching an interesting documentary today of a person who was expressing how he thought he had everything backwards in life where he was so focused in making money and that his personal health was usually at the bottom of his list. He would always invest a lot of money into making more money

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Financial Management

Buying Products With No Support

There was news recently about HP touch pad tablets that were being cleared as the company made an announcement that it was trying to exit that business. As a result, you saw companies slash the prices from about $400 to as low as $100. Not surprisingly, a lot of bargain shoppers jumped on the deals

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Business

Cannabalizing Sales By Being Too Expensive

The other day I attended a attraction where you had to simply pay two dollars to enter the area. I guess kind of like a tiny museum. One interesting note was that there was an area where the whole ground was on springs of sort and so kids could jump up and down continuously for

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Business

Not So Local Purchases

Today I was literally at a farm where the public can essentially buy items grown right from there and in many people’s mind it is a great way to support local providers. As expected, you pay an extra premium because of this too. There was a couple of intersting bits though such as how one

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Financial Management

Your Choice In Deals Invloving Sales Quantity

Today I noticed at a store that it seemed to have so many large quantity deals such as people buying ten boxes of cereal or say those small boxes of rice products. Essentially, on the price tag it listed things such as “Buy 10 for $20” type of deal. My friend was then telling me

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Financial Management

When Buying Direct Isn’t Cheaper

Today I went to a farmers market and one product that a farmer was selling was maple syrup. It’s no secret that usually farmer market items are more expensive as people are willing to pay extra dollars for the notion that the product is fresh and locally produced. The interesting thing is the city I

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