Merry Valentine’s Day, everyone! For those of you with significant others to love and adore, I hope you are able to spend the day with them and have a wonderful time. For all the accusations that Valentine’s Day is a ‘Hallmark Holiday’, propagated and sustained by companies that are looking to cash in our affections, […]
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Ah, yet again, I find myself wishing I was half as creative in my writing as real life seems to be. Recently, Alabama lawyers brought a lawsuit against Taco Bell, alleging that the meat in their tacos and other food products isn’t really ‘meat’ so much as filler. Oh, the jokes, jests, and general snide
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Wow, it’s hard to believe, but this is the 500th post I’ve put up here on The Amateur Financier. When you combine this with the upcoming second anniversary of when I started to write for this blog early in February of 2009, to say nothing of the fact that I’ve managed to get my Alexa
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For the most part, I’m a pretty fortunate fellow. I have a loving fiancée, a good (if not high paying) job advancing the science of biochemistry, and a nice apartment. Yup, all in all my life is pretty nice, which is why when things go wrong, they seem to really go wrong. My Tale of
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I’ve now been working at Wal-Mart (or as a disturbing number of relatives, friends and passers-by insist on calling it, Wally World) for a little over a month. I’ve gotten the basics of the job down pretty well, and have been working hard, even if the job is far from what I expected to be
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