I’m back after nearly two months of non-activity.  Non-activity on this blog, maybe, but plenty of goings-on in my personal life.  A close family member’s health took a nosedive starting last Fall, and the person passed away at the beginning of the New Year.  This person’s illness and death has had a drastic impact on my family, and that’s where most of my attention has been paid for the past few months.  But I’m forcing myself to get back into this, so you’ll again be treated to my sarcastic, poorly-written drivel in the coming days.  Thanks for having the patience to wait, and continuing to visit my site.  And a belated Happy New Year!

• Men's Room Etiquette Photo by amy_b Ladies, you can skip this post.  Really, this one is not fit for your eyes.  My wife thought the subject matter was disgusting.  It's for the benefit of my brothers out there in the corporate world.  It also has nothing to do with personal finance, but......
• My Thanksgiving Ritual Photo by theogeo People develop different rituals to celebrate Thanksgiving.  Laurel and Hardy fans may tune in to March of the Wooden Soldiers, or watch the Macy's Parade.  A local radio station plays Alice's Restaurant in its entirety every year (I never tire from hearing the massacree again).  Some......
• A Graduate's Personal Finance Assignment phunkstarr My son's graduation ceremony took place this past weekend.  The sun finally made an appearance, so it was held on the high school football field.  There were actually a few good speeches.  The principal called the graduates the "Online Generation", and how credentials will mean less in this day of......

• Weekly Thoughts: Running Behind This is a less than desirable situation; if you are a regular reader, you've probably noticed that last week, around New Year's Eve, I just stopped posting.  There are several reasons for this (most having to do with personal issues and the start of the new year), but needless to......
• Is It Possible People Are This Clueless About Their Cash Flow? As part of my daily responsibilities financial planners will come to me to discuss a particular case; sometimes these cases are mind boggling estate planning cases ($20million, $30million, $50million+) and sometimes they are just your run of the mill new family starting out. When the case has to do with......
• Breaking the 2 Year Blogging Curse, pt 2. We’ve talked about what the 2 Year Blogging Curse is and covered some ways to break it, now we’ll go over some more ways to do just that. Target a New Audience. If you started out concentrating on beginners in your niche because you yourself were a beginning but now......

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• My First 100 Days Theresa Thompson Yesterday was Day 100 of this blog.  Since people like to examine the first 100 days of new regimes, I figured that I'd throw out some statistics, just in case you were curious.  I know I was curious, and amazed.  Amazed that anyone would read my stuff. ......
• 11 Ideas for New Income Streams Camra_ Art I read an article at Kiplinger.com entitled 11 Ways to Get Extra Cash.  I'm always looking for new income streams, so here's my take on the suggestions: 1. Sell your stuff online So far, I've only bought stuff online.  I'm not big on garage sales, but maybe......
• Standing on the Shoulders of Giants jurvetson I'm the office Excel guru, but I wasn't always comfortable with computers.  When I first starting working, we only had terminals that were hooked to a mainframe.  The only software we used was the mainframe program.  There was one PC, which was located in a small side office. ......

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• Approach Facebook Advertising To Maximize Your Profits Finally there is a truly serious rival for the largest search engine in the world, and that would be Facebook advertising. Even though there a number of ways to advertise your offer on the Internet such as Google AdWords and other platforms, Facebook advertising has its own place. It is......
• Things You Should Know To Help Write Your Persuasive Ad Copy Writing persuasive ad copy is more about injecting clarity and action oriented text into your content and trying to persuade the reader to buy your product, hire you or take the action you want them to take and not just putting a few random paragraphs together. It's important to work......