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Who doesn’t like money? I don’t think I know a single person who couldn’t put their hands up and say, “I’d like a bit more money in my life.” Except maybe Oprah, but she’s living the dream so she doesn’t have to hold her hands up and say that. I mean, heck, she could probably buy two new hands and hire someone else to hold them up if she wanted to. Continue reading Why Travel Accommodations Don’t Have to Cost You a Fortune This is a guest post from blogger Joel Larsgaard, who is the proprietor of Save Outside the Box. Who wants to work ’til they’re 75? Not me. That’s why I’m constantly thinking of ways to make a little more or spend a little less in order to save more for the future. If you have the same priority there is one change that you can make in order to quit your day Continue reading How to Retire Five Years Earlier Than You May Think You Can Every once in awhile I’ll come across something a bit arcane that will catch my eye and really make me wonder. For example, consider the pattern on the back of this cat: I know. I can’t believe it either. I’ll never forget the time I came across an eggplant at my local grocery store that looked exactly like Richard Milhous Nixon. I’m not kidding. OK, on second thought, the eggplant didn’t look exactly like Continue reading 4 Good Reasons Why Some Quarters Are Painted Red Readers: With Ironman 3 breaking box office records last week, I thought it was the perfect time to repost this popular selection from the Len Penzo dot Com archives. — Len Let me tell you, sometimes this working-for-a-living thing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been in one of those high-pressure do-or-die phases that requires me to be at the office from six Continue reading 9 Movie Theater Extras That We Could All Do Without When it comes to business, success depends on staying ahead of the competition. The know-how that helps achieve this is competitive intelligence. Whether it is planning a strategy, improving product features or providing better customer service, a company has a definite edge if it knows exactly what its competitors are planning. Here are a few tips on harnessing the power of competitive intelligence to your advantage. Knowing your competitors Compiling a list Continue reading How to Use Competitive Intelligence to Your Advantage There are plenty of food snobs out there who insist that it is sacrilegious to put ketchup on a hot dog. That assessment is echoed by The National Hot Dog Council which proclaims that ketchup should never be put on a hot dog by any one over the age of 18. I find it deliciously ironic when people insist that something as gastronomically unsophisticated as the common hot dog can Continue reading 100 Words On: Why It’s Not Poor Etiquette to Put Ketchup on a Hot Dog No, that's not my new car. As I mentioned in my previous post, I finally relented and bought myself a new car. I can understand why some of you may be scratching your head at my decision to buy new instead of used. Especially when the playbook of good personal finance habits clearly states — right there on page 31, paragraph 6, subsection 2a — that it’s better to buy a Continue reading More Reasons Why I Decided to Buy a New Car Instead of a Used One OK, I did it. After commuting to and from work in my 1997 Honda Civic for the past 13 years, and with my son on the verge of getting his driver’s license, I finally relented and bought myself a new car. That’s right. I’m now the proud owner of a brand-new factory-fresh 2013 Honda Accord. Frankly, I feel like I died and went to heaven. This is the first new car I’ve ever Continue reading I Finally Broke Down and Bought a New Car. Yes, New. It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe… Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Last night at the dinner table, Nina was lamenting why I wouldn’t drop her and her girlfriend off at Disneyland this weekend for a day of unsupervised fun. “Because you’re just 13, that’s why!” I said. “Well, when Continue reading Black Coffee: Low Interest Rates, Combative Teens, and Other Troubling Trends |
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Black Coffee: Hot Stocks, Cold Beer, Warm Regards and Cool Bananas
It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…
Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance.
It’s the first week of May and I hope everyone is having a great weekend! Let’s get right to it.
The Way-Back Machine: Past Posts Of Mine You May Have Missed
From April 2011:
My Peanut Butter Taste Test:
Continue reading Black Coffee: Hot Stocks, Cold Beer, Warm Regards and Cool Bananas