Archive for January, 2009

Jan.31.2009

It Can’t Love You Back

A few nights ago, my wife had to work late, so I was charged with an evening at home alone with my three year old and one year old.
We did the usual things. We ate dinner together (spaghetti - my son’s favorite food). We played with his train set. I read several [...]

Jan.31.2009

Customer Service Secret Weapon Revealed!

Are you sick of navigating phone menus and hearing the recorded voice say, “Due to unexpectedly high call volumes your wait time is approximately 5 minutes”?
Well for some businesses there’s a new, simple way that you can ask them questions and advice online.  The list of companies below are some examples of businesses that are communicating [...]

Jan.30.2009

The Frugal Magic of the “Five Ingredient Crock Pot Meal”

We use our crock pot all the time. Rarely does a week go by when we don’t use it at least twice. It enables us to simply put some ingredients in the crock pot in the morning, turn it on “low,” leave it for the day, then enjoy a home-cooked supper with our [...]

Jan.30.2009

The Intelligent Investor: Convertible Issues and Warrants

This is the seventeenth in a weekly series of articles providing a chapter-by-chapter in-depth “book club” reading of Benjamin Graham’s investing classic The Intelligent Investor. Warren Buffett describes this book: “I read the first edition of this book early in 1950, when I was nineteen. I thought then that it was by far the [...]