Archive for September, 2009
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Why I Will NEVER Buy Another LG Product Again – EVER!
The background story: Two years ago we purchased a new washer & dryer to the tune of about $1,500 and at the time of purchase I was skeptical about the “benefits” of the “new” and “improved” models but this one purported to offer generous energy savings and life long span. Our previous washer & dryer [...]
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
How To Get A College Education For Free!
I watched the tail end of a show on textbooks on some channel the other day and it got me thinking about free college text books. The show mentioned a company named FlatWorld Knowledge that offers college text books for free. I was a bit skeptical but I went to the website anyway and was [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Raves by RichSlick
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Sorry Banks, Your Devilish Tempting Offers Come With Too High A Price
Bloomberg is reporting that credit contraction for July was $21.9 billion instead of the economists predicted contraction of just $4 billion and I can tell you the unintended consequences of banks stupidity and greed. I am now, almost weekly, getting credit card balance transfer offers for either 0% or 0.99% APR on balance transfers but [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Money Management by RichSlick
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Cracks in My Spending Dam
I’ve held off buying “stuff” so long that I just can’t hold back the spending waters any more. After being laid off in January, I cut back on expenses and that included maintenance on the vehicle because quite honestly, I wasn’t really driving that much and it didn’t make sense to rotate tires and change [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Observations by RichSlick
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Unemployment Insurance, Pension Insurance, Food Stamps All Crumbling
Wow, I am absolutely amazed at some of the news stories and information coming out. First, I just read that 40% of families on food stamps in the USA are actually working and drawing income. Wow, 40%! The number of working Americans turning to free government food stamps has surged as their hours and wages [...]
No Comments » - Posted in The Fed,Watch Out by RichSlick
Monday, September 7th, 2009
Death Panels & Wall Street, A Marriage Made in Hell
Over the past few weeks I’ve seen snippets and clips of people complaining about the health care bill Obama has proposed and I honestly haven’t read the bill nor kept up with most of the discussion on it because I’m really tired of watching MSNBC wackos and Fox News wackos nonsense all the time but [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Evil Profits by RichSlick
Friday, September 4th, 2009
A Run On Gold?
It’s getting interesting…with more rumours about a bank holiday in the U.S. and various Asian countries around the world advising citizens to buy gold or securing their own gold from places like London to Hong Kong is presenting quite an interesting show… HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Hong Kong is pulling all its physical gold holdings [...]
No Comments » - Posted in The Fed,Watch Out by RichSlick
Friday, September 4th, 2009
Happy Labor Day Weekend
No posts until Tuesday, I’m taking the weekend off! Bookmark to: Hide Sites
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
People Willing To Take 50% Pay Cuts?
I thought that since I was working again that perhaps the economy was starting to rebound a bit. I am still getting e-mails from various companies trying to hire me but most of the work is project oriented or contract for a limited time. I ran across this article on CNN that claims people are [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Observations,The Fed,Watch Out by RichSlick
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Costco Selling Survivalist Foods
What does Costco know that we don’t? I was surprised to see Costco selling survivalist “Meals in a bucket” the other day. The “Emergency Food Kit” is a bucket that has about 270 meals and sells for about $90. I found the bucket online here. While we are in hurricane & tornado season and [...]