Archive for September, 2007
Friday, September 7th, 2007
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Greetings, salutations and welcome. Exjackly what is this?
This is the place where I will share my thoughts, learnings, experiments and rants with you. I expect it to be mostly about personal finance with enough photography, volunteerism and government policy ideas (not politics – running for office and public opinion polls are not [...]
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
Trail Building
Tomorrow promises to be a fun day. As part of my efforts with the Boy Scouts, several of us – including myself – are working on completing the 50-miler award. Part of the award calls for giving back to the outdoors by contributing time to trail building, maintenance and other conservation work.
8 youth, [...]
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Trail Work
Well, the work yesterday was fun. I joined with other volunteers to help prepare the cross country ski trails in the area for the upcoming winter. My group had 8 people total, so we were assigned a 2 mile loop of trail to work on.
Half of the group went to work on Ralph’s Trail, a [...]
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Financial Update
This is a quick update. I’ve been hit with identity theft for a second time. Fortunately, this one was much less painful than the first time. In this case, somebody used my credit card number to pay their bills. I don’t think there will be any problems getting this cleared up, but it eliminates my [...]
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Retirement Vision
What a wonder of buzz-speak is ‘vision’. While in the workforce we hear about company vision, leader’s vision, departmental vision, group vision, and even more. With all of those visions, it is easy for one to think they must be hallucinating.
Why then, did I title this post ‘Retirement Vision’?
In this case, I think that Vision [...]
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Savings Philosophy #1
As we go through life, we are constantly looking to the future. Most of us even make an effort to prepare for the future too. Financially, that generally consists of finding ways to save money and invest it for the long term. The question is, how do you save enough to meet [...]
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Savings Philosophy #2
This is the second article in the Savings Philosophy series.
Go Green
Whether you agree or disagree with proponents of the Global Warming scenario, going green can be good for you and your wallet. The key ideas here all relate to the three R’s of environmental responsibility: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Reduce
Every extra trip to the store, each [...]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Blogrush
Just a quick note about an addition tot he sidebar. Blogrush is a relatively new company that offers a fair way to share links with other blogs. I say fair, because the link sharing is supposed to be targeted to similar blogs.
I hope it works as advertised and gives you interesting and pertinent [...]
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
How to Snowball Debt
When I build a snowman, each part is built separately by starting with a small snowball and rolling it around the yard until it is big enough. Then I stack all of them together and decorate to create my finished snowman.
Snowballing debt is a very similar process. You start out making small extra [...]
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Saving Philosophy Collection
Part of what has prompted me to begin writing in this blog has been the unfortunate occurrence of being laid off from my job. While I am working on finding my next job, I wanted something to do that was meaningful to me and which would help me focus on what needs to be [...]
