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Posts made in September, 2011
As someone who is early in their investing career, I’m someone who probably plays it a little too safe when it comes to what I’m investing in. I have a few hundred dollars in bonds, $500 in a rotating CD, and a nice chunk of change in a Money Market account. I haven’t started playing the stock market yet, but one day soon I...
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Just over two years ago, I was in my best friend’s wedding. I was her maid of honor, even though I was probably one of the world’s most unlikely choices for such a… feminine role. Let’s put it that way. But, I pulled my duties off without a hitch, and with a couple modifications (like using an amusement park for our...
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I’ll soon be having a roommate. Whenever she finds some sort of job in our area, she’ll be moving in with me, probably October or November sometime. We talked about this last year, when she was overseas doing administrative work for a mission organization, and now it’s becoming closer to reality. I honestly thought that I...
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This happens more to women than men, but I bet that men totally get what I’m going to say here. Have you ever had to lose 5 more pounds in order to get into something for some special occasion? The stereotypical example is the bridesmaid or wedding dress. Anyway, this is where the concept of the “crash diet” comes in. Nothing...
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Emotions. We all have them, well, I hope. If you don’t, I suggest you spend some the extra money that you probably have from your lack of emotions and see someone about that. What’s hard is that we allow our emotions to control a lot of things that we shouldn’t. If we allow our emotions to control our world too much, financial...
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