Micah took in our dear little car for her oil change today and the service people promptly suggested that he replace the front two tires. At first he was inclined to go with it, but he ended up deciding to comparison shop (thanks love!).
The thing is, they weren’t actually wrong about our car needing new [...]

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First, thanks to everyone who reads my blog, and especially to those who leave comments…so I know who my readers are!
I thought I’d do a post thanking December’s top commentators.
First, there’s RacerX, whose blog Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Money is relatively new to the blog scene. One of his posts I particularly enjoyed [...]

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Home with the folks, but I have a couple stories to share. The second comes from RacerX at Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Money and I mention it first because it reminded me of the first story.
First story:
Last month, at my old job, I got a fascinating kind of spam. It was fax spam [...]

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Yes, my savvy blog readers, you knew about this. But please read on, because further down I’m going to go into some newer nuances of this persistent scam.
The Nigerian or 419 Scam is pretty classic. A person needs to transfer money to the States. They’ll give you a cut if you accept their deposit/check/whatever. [...]

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One post which keeps appearing on my visitor logs–as a search term and a visited post is my piece on whether to DirectBuy or not to DirectBuy.
Since there’s so much interest and my friends just went on a trip to Costco, I decided to do another piece on it. You see, I think DirecBuy is [...]

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