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Why Must Clothes Be So Expensive?

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I’ve been wearing the same pair of jeans for at least a year now. They have served me well, but there’s a hole in the right pocket, one developing on the surface at the bottom of said [...]

Integrating Investing

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I like investing. I mean, I really like investing. I like to see my money GROW.

After filling out health insurance and 401k paperwork (with my awesome 3% contribution) at work today, it got me back in to [...]

Another Day, Another Debt

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My grandfather offered to pay the bill for my truck yesterday. I wouldn’t be surprised if my mom asked him to do this. Knowing that it would be a month til I could pay the bill myself, [...]

Truck Update

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Timelines are fun. Here’s a nifty one:

1037: Conshohocken Getty calls me to ask what’s wrong with the truck. I tell them – clutch went to the floor.
1108: Getty calls back and tells me I need a whole [...]

My Truck Broke Down – Again

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I don’t know when I’ll learn that the nice guy never wins. I gave my coworker a ride to the store yesterday to pick something up, and while there, he asked me how much I’d charge to [...]

Google Trends/Related Searches: Slightly Flawed

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In the effot to overcome a bit of writer’s block, I googled “blog writers block” and came across a suggestion to hop over to Google Trends to see what’s hoppin’ on the web right now, to get [...]

Silly Mad Libs

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First off, I have to say that this isn’t really a Mad Lib. Debt Ninja, you’ve got it all backwards. A mad lib is supposed to be filled out not knowing what the paragraph is going to [...]