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Tipping Dilemma

What’s your stance on tipping at restaurants?

I realize that waiters don’t make a whole lot of money, and therefore, I try to always leave a good tip, typically around 20%.  Of course, I’m also not eating at the most expensive of restaurants, so a 20% tip might not amount to much.  Most of my friends [...]

What Now?

In my office, we’ve been having a number of conversations about the current state of the economy and how it affects our job.  Not our jobs – our employment isn’t in jeopardy, but how it affects how our workplace functions.  Someone commented the other day that the market appeared to have a bit of schizophrenia [...]

Playing the Stock Market

Welcome to all the new readers from Smart Spending!

I learned yesterday that a few months back, one of my co-workers, who seems to be a fan of “get rich quick” schemes (none of which have ever worked for him, of course) decided to start playing the stock market.  He took $3000 out of his savings [...]

Economic Woes

I’m not even sure where to begin a post on the economy.  Stocks took the biggest hit since the tragedy of 9/11/01.  Then the Fed announced a bailout of AIG.  Now we hear that even the FDIC’s funds are dwindling and they might need a loan from Treasury to keep their funds at the Congressionally [...]

Evacuating – Do You Have a Plan?

I have written before on the benefits of emergency planning, but after the events of the past few weeks, I think it doesn’t hurt to discuss it yet again.  For people who live in areas threatened by hurricanes and wildfires, this is an easy question to answer, but I think that we should probably all [...]