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November 2010

SuperFreakonomics – Illustrated Edition (WANT IT?)

November 30, 2010

How awesome is this?? Freakonomics on steroids! With lots of purrty pictures and diagrams – perfect for those of us A.D.D. kids ;) And it’s big & hard too! (that’s what she said?) Whether probing the intricacies of sex change operations, the effectiveness of child car seats, or what really motivates people to do good, [...]

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“I Got it at Ross” [Music Video]

November 30, 2010

This beats everything I was thinking of writing about today ;) Turn up the volume, close your office door, and blast this like you mean it!! “I Got it At Ross” by Abraham Linkin: “My president is black, his name is Obama…. Stuntin’ like my daddy, bargain-shoppin’ like my momma! I got it at Ross…” [...]

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Tip # 478: Unload your $1 bills every night!

November 29, 2010

I’ve been doing this on and off over the years, but a recent commenter here reminded me how well this trick works!  And it barely takes any extra time in your schedule to make it happen. (it literally takes .03 seconds – I’ve timed it.) Check it out (thanks Chris!): For the last week I [...]

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It’s Black Friday! Are you alive??!

November 26, 2010

Have you already spent $500,001 on super sexy flat screens and the latest iPad 10,000? Did you run into any crazies out there who tried fighting you for the last Harry Potter video? Did you buy something for ME?? Can I ask you another 101 questions? ;) As you can see – I have decided [...]

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Weekly Roundup: Bras, iPads and Dave Ramsey

November 26, 2010

Boy, it’s been a few weeks since we’ve done one of these.  So much I wanna blog about, so little time!  But I did find some good ones over the weeks – you’ll have to let me know if you agree ;)  Happy Black Friday!!! Let’s start with an AWESOME video –> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwimc4cvUmQ — (if [...]

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Watch out for the Giant Turkey!

November 25, 2010

I had this dream last night that the world was run by gargantuan turkeys, and they were all out to eat us!! Which means 2 things right about now: 1)  I have to stop eating Fruity Pebbles at all hours of the night for dinner. and 2) It’s THANKSGIVING!!!!! Rejoice! We all have so much [...]

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Here a Tip, There a Tip, Everywhere a Tip Tip!

November 24, 2010

Money Mag came out with the “average tip planned for the 2010 holidays,” in their latest Dec issue, and I don’t quite know what to make of it.  I guess they seem fair, but then again it’s like we have to tip EVERYONE for everything these days.  Or maybe I’m just a frugal bastard? (don’t [...]

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Generation Earn: New Book & Giveaway!

November 23, 2010

Hey guys! One of my new real-life friends (I can call her that now that we’ve had coffee together! haha…), Kimberly Palmer, of WTOP News & Alpha Consumer blog on U.S. News & World Report, just came out with an awesome new book. It’s called Generation Earn: The Young Professional’s Guide to Spending, Investing, and [...]

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Gotta Push Through Even When You’re Mad!

November 22, 2010

Friday morning I was PISSED. We were literally on our way to the airport to visit my boy Nate and check out Chicago for the first time, when United F’ing Airlines called to say the flight was canceled all of a sudden! No apologies, no reasons for it (not that it really matters at that [...]

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Wealthy People vs Poor People

November 19, 2010

Happy Friday y’all! Fellow sexy budgets reader, Andy Hausmann, emailed me this gem last night and thought it was too good to pass up.  Kinda a lot to take in, but if you really think about these one by one they def. make sense! T. Harv Eker, author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering [...]

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