General Thoughts and Fun Topics

General Thoughts and Fun Topics
General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Truly Saving Money When You Get Things For Free

Today my dad caught a couple of sockeye salmon and so he decided to give a bunch away to people in the family. These are usually pretty expensive to buy in the stores. The funny thing I thought was how the initial reaction from many was to just feast away since there was quite a

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Selling Old Stuff Before Buying The New Ones

I was just reading about these new hand-held devices that were coming out and of course many people want the latest and greatest. There was one person who was saying how he just had a stack of old devices that are pretty much junk to him at this point. What this made me think was

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Forcing Yourself To Rest Too

I was talking to a person who runs his own freelancing business which meant that he has to constantly search for new customers. Not surprisingly he mentioned that he gets maybe three hours of sleep each day as it is much more relaxing to know that he has secured a contract for a month rather

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Too Much Money When It Comes To Family Inheritance

I was reading that story today on how various billionaires have pledged to giveaway about half of their wealth in an act of philanthropy. There is a site about it too at http://www.givingpledge.org/ . It was interesting reading the reasons on why they have decided to giveaway their money. One comment that kind of stuck

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Rarely Factoring In Travel Cost

One of my friends was interested in buying an item at the mall as apparently it was on sale. In general it appeared to be about $5 less than what the local places charged. The funny thing I thought is that he took public transportation and the fee to get there and back is pretty

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What Other People Think

So today I was helping with some house painting and there was this little smear on the ceiling which looked like it was used to cover something up. The paint was the same the color as the ceiling which made it blend to a certain extent, but you still notice it. Since it was pretty

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