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“Travelers Diarrhea Survey – Enter for a chance to win $100”

I kid you not folks. That was the exact subject title of an e-mail that I received. I occasionally get these e-mails from the Consumer Research Panel where they want you to take surveys about various topics and in return they would enter you into a contest for a chance to win some money. Normally […]

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Financial Management

The Groupthink Mentality of Spending Money

While browsing around the mall recently, one of my friend was interested in buying a game and so we went to the mall. Since it is the Christmas season, almost everyone is in a shopping mode and not surprisingly the item in question was sold out everywhere. The interesting comment he made afterwards was how […]

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Boy Gets Arrested For Opening His Christmas Present Early

This is just incredible. The Herald newspaper did a report about a story that happened in Rock Hill where a 27 year old single mom called the police when her 12 year old son opened up his Christmas present early. You can read the story along with the interview by clicking here. To be brief, […]

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Making Money

Million Dollar Homepage 2 – Pixelotto

A lot of you may remember a person named Alex Tew who was just 21 years old and created a site called the Million Dollar Homepage where his goal was to sell these pixel advertisements for a $1 each in hopes to earn one million dollars. As you all know, he was successful in doing […]

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Trying Out Different Blog Formats

As you may have noticed, I have been tinkering around with the look and organization of this blog recently as I thought it was time to give it a little update as I have been using the same format for over two years now. I feel the current direction will make it easier for people […]

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Business

“90#” Phone Scam Targeting Businesses

I recently just read about this phone scam that has been going around here where people are pretending to be technicians of your local phone company who are doing a routine test. They are basically tricking callers into pressing “90#” during the call which grants the scammer access to do things like calling long distance […]

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