Money and Life on the Way to Retirement
Last week I received an email from Amazon introducing Amazon Payphraseand inviting me to create my own Payphrase. It sounded so simple and useful. As they noted in the first sentence, I’m “a frequent Amazon.com shopper”. I wasn’t happy about that point since I’ve really cut down my online shopping the past six months. [...]
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Most of the time I’m proud to be a Californian. Not so much this year. My last paycheck was lower than normal. A benefit of being salaried is there there isn’t much fluctuation with pay and I didn’t have a pay cut. It wasn’t a surprise because my company warned us. I have the State of California [...]
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Wednesday is Veterans Day which is an annual day to honor and remember those who have served in the US Military. This day was formally identified as a holiday in 1919 to note the one year anniversary of the end of the “war to end all wars”…World War One. Unfortunately this was not the war to end [...]
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October ended with a fun holiday and a time change. It seemed fortuitous that you got an extra hour sleep after a night of partying. Sunday included the extra chores of changing clocks and smoke alarm batteries (okay, I didn’t do that last one but I should!). In late September, I started monitoring Buck$ome Boomer’s [...]
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You know I like a good bargain and coming up later this month is one of my favorite shopping events…Black Friday! For those that have been been living in a bomb shelter or managed to escape the hype somehow, Black Friday in the shopping context is the day after Thanksgiving and is the start of the holiday shopping season. Over the [...]
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