I wrote my first blog post five years ago today.
Now I've got to be honest with you, folks: I only started Len Penzo dot Com as a way to try and keep myself from getting bored. It's true!
Hopefully, I haven't bored too many of you since ...
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Why Doing Lines on Black Friday Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Despite the conventional wisdom, Black Friday is not the busiest shopping day of the year. Most procrastinators know that honor belongs to the Saturday before Christmas.
Black Friday has changed over the past decade or two, and the Internet has a ...
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Financial Market Outlook: USA Versus UK
Both the United States and the United Kingdom's stock markets have had their share of ups and downs in the last few years, partly due to a shaky global world economy and the real estate bubble burst. While it's impossible to predict exactly how the ...
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Yet Another Reason Why I Hate Buying Tickets from Ticketmaster
Most of you know I've had a hate/hate relationship with Ticketmaster for a long time now.
After all, this is the company that wrote the book on ridiculous consumer fees that, many people argue, only serve to exploit their hapless customers; it's a ...
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A Fun Interview with Stacking Benjamins’ Host, Joe Saul-Sehy
I recently met with Joe Saul-Sehy to talk about his new money podcast, Stacking Benjamins, which debuts this week. We had just finished recording his final Two Guys and Your Money show, and I figured it would be clever to conduct the interview via ...
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How I Stupidly Got Ripped Off by Not Getting Multiple Estimates
Whether we realize it or not, we manage financial risk whenever we take the time to get multiple price estimates from competing contractors. Those who do often get rewarded for their efforts.
As for those who don't, well ... they often end up ...
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100 Words On: How Smart People Make High Risk Ventures Pay Off
Risk and reward are inextricably intertwined. Of course, the richest rewards come to those who are willing to take the biggest risks. The oft-forgotten corollary to that strategy is that, by its very nature, high risk endeavors also have a greater ...
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Why Financial Success Often Depends on the Road Not Taken
Decisions, decisions. Like it or not, our lives are defined by them.
It's no secret that a big part of our financial success is based upon the decisions we make in life.
Just ask any person who has jeopardized their financial future by, say, ...
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Why I Refuse to Get Upset By Subtly Deceptive Advertising
Last weekend I was lured to an online calendar website with the following promise: "Everything up to 60% off!"
Sixty percent!
While I was visiting there I found a calendar that was on sale for $13.49 -- $1.50 off the regular price of ...
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100 Words On: How to Avoid Burning Out
It takes real drive to turn our biggest dreams into reality, but sometimes the relentless passion that fuels our inevitable push for success becomes counterproductive. When personal expectations finally exceed what we can reasonably achieve on our ...
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The Olympics: More Proof Those Given Everything Appreciate Nothing
Am I the only person in America with a working television that hasn't watched a single minute of the Olympics on the boob tube?
It's not that I'm not interested in them; I am. It's just that I've been really busy doing research and getting ready ...
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What Does ‘Flare’ Taste Like? When Swanky Marketing Goes Too Far.
Last week my boss and I were sitting in a conference room when he spied a pack of gum that someone had left on the table.
"Hey, Len! You want some gum?"
"Well, that depends," I said. "What flavor is it?"
"Five."
"Five? What the heck does ...
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My Daughter’s Latest Business Venture (A Car Wash? That’s So Last Year!)
This is another post from my 12-year-old daughter, Nina.
Hi everyone! My dad asked me if I would write another article to tell you about my latest accomplishments so far in 2012.
My last post received a lot of attention because it was put on ...
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Len Penzo dot Com Surpasses One Million Page Views!
When I wrote my first article for Len Penzo dot Com way back on December 11, 2008, one milestone I never considered reaching was the magical one million page-views marker. It's a good thing too, because during the first nine months of this blog's ...
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If It Feels Good Do It: Maybe Strategic Defaults Aren’t So Bad After All
I bought my first home in 1990 at the top of the Southern California real estate market and promptly found myself with an "underwater" mortgage. And although I owed more than the home was worth over the next seven long years, I never walked away from ...
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The Penner Awards: The 10 Craziest Money Blunders of 2010
As 2010 comes to a close, I think it is only appropriate that I share my picks for the ten dumbest money stories of the past year, highlighting some of the most dumbfounding displays of numismatical naivete and financial ineptitude known to ...
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Why Baseball’s Jayson Werth Is Worth $126 Million (and You’re Not)
This is a guest post from my good friend, Mr. Credit Card, from www.askmrcreditcard.com. For the past three years, his Philadelphia Phillies have been the nemesis of my beloved Los Angeles Dodgers.
I certainly feel we can learn a lot from how b ...
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Consumer Alert: Qualia Free Coffee E-mail is a Scam
Any time I get an email offering me a free anything just for clicking on a link, I get suspicious.
I know. I'm just paranoid that way, but it usually saves me a lot of heartache down the road.
Not five minutes ago I got an email from "J" who sent ...
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What Would YOU Be Willing to Do for a Million Dollars?
Several years ago I wrote a very popular post highlighting the seven deadly sins of personal finance. Of course, one of those seven deadly sins was greed.
Greed often makes people do some really crazy things they wouldn't otherwise ...
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The 5 Worst Jobs For Teenagers
With summer here, schools are now on hiatus for vacation in most places around the country and teenagers are scurrying to find temporary jobs to earn some extra money. With that in mind, some parents may be interested to know that the National ...
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