General Thoughts and Fun Topics

General Thoughts and Fun Topics
General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Dirty Money Will Leave A Mark

I was reading that story about a dad in the US who robbed a gas station with his daughter witnesses the whole event. He tried to justify it as he had to do it for her since he was recently laid off from his job. He also brought a gun out and all in-front of

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Getting Rare Coins

I was checking clearing out the loose change in my pocket today and I realized that one of the quarters I received as change from a machine had this interesting poppy image on it as you can see here: It seems like it is embedded into the quarter and was made as a way to

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Solicitation Disclaimers

Usually when you get a telemarketer phoning you all the time you always wonder where they get your phone number from as it can be pretty irritating. Online can be just as troublesome as you get spammed sometimes on e-mail addresses that you don’t ever use for your regular communication. Just today I got this

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Earth Hour Event

So there is an Earth hour event today starting 8:30pm local time. Essentially, everyone is supposed to turn off their lights for about one hour to conserve electricity. This is one of those things normally too where it makes sense to do anyways as from a financial point of view you end up saving money

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The Need To Pay For The Generosity of Others

For the past couple of weeks a person has been generously helping me out by giving me advice and direction for a situation that he would normally expect to be receive some upfront financial compensation for before doing anything. I even made a comment to him on how it felt like I was being a

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Paying Too Much For Delicacy Items At Restaurants

I was treated to this Japanese restaurant yesterday and it was pretty evident that the place was on the more upscale side. I was looking at the menu and my first reaction was how little portions that this one dish was in comparison to an entrée. Essentially, this one order simple had about 5 to

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