June 2010

Are You Cut Out for a Freelance Job? Is Anyone?

June 10, 2010

Brip Blap has an interesting post today, “Job Junkie.” It’s quite nuanced—a lot is going on in it. Overall, he’s talking about working so steadily and so faithfully that you become “addicted” to work. And he’s got something there. I once had a boss who told me how it felt when he was laid off [...]

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Return Policies: It pays to shop where they’re generous

June 9, 2010

Yesterday, at Frugal Scholar‘s repeated urging, I returned to Costco’s optical department, bearing the goggle-like glasses I’ve disliked so vigorously. As you may recall, the progressives work adequately for watching TV (which I rarely do) and for eating dinner, but I can’t read sheet music for choir through them, or much of anything else; the [...]

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Sidestream Income: Have you read this guy’s amazing story?

June 9, 2010

Good grief! I’ve just been browsing around a site called Deliver Away Debt. This guy decided he was going to pay off his debt by throwing sidestream income at it. The stream? Delivering pizzas.The blog is the story of his adventures in this quest. Each month, he details his daily earnings and then totals them [...]

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Emergency Preparedness for Your Pets

June 8, 2010

What with tornado season bearing down on the South and the Midwest and earthquakes rumbling along any number of Western Hemisphere faults, most of us think now and again about emergency preparedness. While it’s crucial to get the people out harm’s way come flood, wind, wildfire, quake or terrorist, the televised sight of all the [...]

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Funny Joins the Yakezie Challenge

June 7, 2010

Lookit this spiffy golden clover! There’s one over on the right sidebar, too. Designed by Eliminate the Muda and CJ Bowker, that’s the badge of the  Yakezie Challenge, a network whose members try to break 100,000 in the Alexa rankings. This scheme is sponsored largely by Financial Samurai, who promises that all proceeds generated by [...]

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A$k and Ye Shall Re¢eive

June 7, 2010

A small mercy: The air-conditioning guy returned to the downtown house to fix the rattle in the motor he’d installed in the swamp cooler. As you may recall, they clipped us to the tune of $500 for that job, something that frosted my cookies because the guy showed up when neither of us was there [...]

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