One of the great never-ending debates in the world of personal finance is whether or not name-brand groceries are really worth the extra cost when alternative cheaper store-brand groceries are available. Furthermore, when it comes to edible products, ...
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Why Low-Cost or No-Fee Products May Not Be Such A Good Deal
This is a guest post by Mr. Credit Card from www.askmrcreditcard.com. Today, Mr Credit Card is going to talk about how getting into the cheap, lowest cost mentality may not be the best thing for every purchase that we make. This is a slight ...
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Yes, Al Gore, There Is Such A Thing as Global Warming
DEAR EDITOR:
I am 61 years old.
Many people continue to say there is no such thing as global warming.
My wife Tipper says, 'If you see it in Len Penzo dot Com, it's so.'
So please tell me the truth; is there such a thing as global warming?
Al ...
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Scary Stories: Fellow Bloggers Share Their Tales of Buyer’s Remorse
According to Wikipedia, buyer's remorse is "an emotional condition whereby a person feels remorse or regret after a purchase." It often refers to higher-priced items that are difficult or impossible to return, thereby making the buyer feel like, ...
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Drive-By Movie Review: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
This is a review of the 2009 animated feature Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs starring the voices of James Caan, Neil Patrick Harris, Benjamin Bratt, Mr. T, Bill Hader, and Anna Faris.
Plot Summary: A timeless tale adapted from Ron and Judi ...
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Drive-By Movie Review: The Machinist
This is a review of the 2004 movie The Machinist starring Christian Bale and Jennifer Jason Leigh
Plot Summary: Trevor Reznik is a factory lathe worker who can barely tell whether he exists anymore. He hasn't slept for a year and he is so thin he is ...
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Killer Asteroid? Personal Finance Strategies For the End Times
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the sign post up ahead, your next stop...The Personal Finance Twilight ...
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Drive-By Movie Review: Breach
This is a review of the 2007 movie Breach, starring Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillipe, Laura Linney and Denis Haysbert.
Plot Synopsis: Based on the true story, FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who ...
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Is LifeLock and Its $1 Million Guarantee A Sham?
By now, most everybody has heard or seen the ubiquitous ads by LifeLock where its founder and chief executive officer, Todd Davis, intimates the impenetrable fortress-like quality of his identity theft protection service by brazenly giving out his ...
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Drive-By Movie Review: Suspect Zero
This is a review of the 2004 movie Suspect Zero, starring Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley.
Plot Synopsis: An FBI agent gets called in to investigate a strange murder. When the trail leads him to the suspect, he realizes that he has been drawn into a ...
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Why Rechargeable Batteries Are Rarely Cost Effective
I was standing in line at a local electronics store the other day when I struck up a conversation with the guy ahead of me who had a basket full of battery chargers and AA rechargeable batteries. It turns out he had decided to replace all of the ...
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The REAL Cost of Owning Wireless Mice and Keyboards
When the Honeybee and I bought our last computer, there was quite a debate over whether or not we should pay the extra money for the added convenience of a wireless keyboard and/or mouse. The fear, of course, was in the uncertainty of whether or ...
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Drive-By Movie Review: The Soloist
This is a review of the 2009 movie The Soloist, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx.
Plot Synopsis: The true-life story of Nathaniel Ayers, a former cello prodigy whose bouts with schizophrenia landed him on the streets after two years of ...
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The 10 Most Overpaid Jobs
Oh, am I going to make some enemies today. ;-)
Last week I did a very well-received article on the 10 most underpaid jobs. Today I tackle the other, more controversial, side of the coin - the 10 most overpaid jobs.
First I want to apologize in ...
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Drive-By Movie Review: Duplicity
This is a review of the 2009 movie Duplicity starring Clive Owen, Julia Roberts and Paul Giamatti...
Plot Synopsis: A pair of corporate spies who share a steamy past hook up to pull off the ultimate con job on their respective bosses.
The Honeybee: ...
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The 10 Most Underpaid Jobs
Most everybody thinks they're underpaid for what they do. But in reality, there are a handful of select jobs where this claim is especially true. Here's my take on the 10 most underpaid jobs. Unless otherwise noted, annual income figures are based on ...
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Drive-By Movie Review: Crossing Over
This is a movie review of the 2009 movie Crossing Over starring Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta and Ashley Judd...
Plot Synopsis: Crossing Over is a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in ...
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How Much Would You Pay to Save Your Pet’s Life?
A friend of mine recently told me a sad story that I wanted to share with you.
About five years ago, he drove his dog to a dog park across town for their usual Saturday morning romp. Unfortunately, on that particular fateful morning, when he ...
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Drive-By Movie Review: Taken
Today's Drive-By Movie Review is on the 2009 movie Taken, starring Liam Neeson and Maggie Grace...
Plot Summary: A former spy relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been forced into the slave trade.
Me: I miss the days ...
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Drive-By Movie Review: Defiance
Today's Drive-By Movie Review is on the 2008 movie Defiance, starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber...
Plot Summary: Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belorussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters ...
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