2009 Goal-setting: Keeping promises

My past is littered with broken New Years resolutions.  Let’s see…  I’ve gained additional poundage (not lost them),  dipped into the emergency fund, busted my budget for discretionary expenses and  gained additional poundage procrastinating in front of the boob-tube (there’s a reason why they called it the idiot-box!).  Lists will only work if they are [...]

Wow!!! New UC Irvine Law School Hopes To Attract Best & Brightest with Promise of Free Tuition

Education is big business.  Parents are prepared to do anything just to get their children to the “best” schools,  regardless of the cost.    A school’s reputation is priceless.  But what if the school does not have an established “rep” backed by a proven success record?  UC Irvine thinks it has the key:  it is offering [...]

From Blog to Printed Baby Book

Springwise regularly trawls through the world wide web searching for new business ideas spotted around the world.  My favorite this week is the great new offering by Kidmondo & Baby Chapters.
Here’s the Springwise entry:
Online and offline are no longer mutually exclusive realms, as we’ve already pointed out in numerous examples. The latest illustration comes from [...]

Invest and Hold

“The stock market is presenting you with one of the great buying opportunities of your lifetime – perhaps the greatest. Stop trying to pick the bottom.”
That’s what 41-year market veteran Steve Leuthold, of the Leuthold Group, just told his clients.   In order words,  INVEST, don’t DIVEST!
If you feel that you don’t have either the inclination [...]

In desperate need of pest control

There’s something weird.. in the neighborhood.  Who’re you gonna call?  Pestbusters!
I wish it was as simple as that.    There are times when a sheet of flypaper will do the trick and Vaseline will serve to keep the ants away.    Allercon & Rainbow, the wonder vaccuum cleaner will rid your mattresses of dust mites.  But what [...]

Another Quote of the Day

I was going through my long list of unread emails today and came across this:
Auditor’s one line report on Lehman Brothers Balance sheet:
“There are two sides of a Balance Sheet, Left and Right (Assets and Liabilities, respectively):
 On the Right side, there is nothing right; and on the Left side, there is nothing left”.
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Motherhood has [...]

Quote of the Day

Giving is a necessity sometimes…more urgent, indeed, than having.
—Margaret Lee Runbeck
 
 
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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep
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Real Estate IRA: Is it for you?

With the current bear market,  the typical individual retirement funds (IRA) consisting largely of mutual funds, stocks and bonds, have taken quite a beating.   I wonder what happened to those who went to the other extreme and converted to a “self-directed IRA”.  I remember in the late ’90s that more and more people were advocating these [...]