I track my income and spending through mint.com (the best FREE online personal finance tool).  At Mint I can view trends of where my money goes month after month.  Recently I pulled up a pie chart of my spending by merchant for the year.  The chart displayed the top 10 merchants I’ve given money to for 2009.  My mortgage came in at #1, but the …

I recently had my home appraised in order to refinance it.  Shalauna and I spent hours getting the house ready for show.  We mopped the floors, vacuumed the carpets, cleaned the bathrooms, organized the closets… we really polished things up.  My house is generally neat and clean, but for the appraisal we wanted it to be extra nice.

When the appraiser came, she toured the …

I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t wait around for a deal before I purchase something.  If I decide I want something, most of the time it’s not because there was a sweet deal or coupon offered for the item, it’s because I want the item.  Plain and simple, I don’t buy things because they are a great price, I buy them because I want …

Bill Cosby once said, “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

Isn’t that the truth?  We’ve all been pulled in many different directions wanting to please everyone all at the same time, haven’t we?  No doubt, it’s the right thing to be compassionate and love others.  Without that, it’s a lonely sad life.  But sometimes …

May I have your attention please?
May I have your attention please?
Will the real Jason Waters please stand up?
I repeat, will the real Jason Waters please stand up?
We’re gonna have a problem here…

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