My Journey to Millions

Funny Stock Symbols

The Wall Street Journal had an article about different ETF Funds suing each other because their names are similar and may be confusing to some investors, and it got me to thinking what funny stock market symbols are out there?

I always liked BUD for Budweiser’s parent company, Anheuser Busch but they were

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Heading Overseas? Time to Think About Your Credit Card

If you are planning on travelling abroad any time soon, then getting a new credit card may not be the first thing that you think about, but the first section of this article will tell you why it should be.

Research conducted by Moneysupermarket.com found that over half of Britain’s credit card users (58%)

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What’s the Hot Sector to Invest In? Do You Even Care?

I read an article today on CNN Money titled, “The Case for Buying Small Cap Stocks” where the author, tells the reader why not to buy small cap stocks and then in the very same article tells you why you should invest in small cap stocks. It kind of annoyed me for two reasons:

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6 Months Later a Look at my Perpetual Income Machine

In February I wrote about wanting to start investing in dividend producing stocks and then I immediately wrote about creating my dividend portfolio. Well since it has been six months I am going to review my process and review my results.

Creating my Dividend Portfolio

I went through my own process to determine what

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What Does Patent Pending Mean?

The Wife received a cool wine aerator from a company named, Vinturi. I noticed that the box mentioned that the technology was patent pending, and I thought to myself what does ‘patent pending’ even mean?

Review of Vinturi Wine Aerator

First the results of the product. The product is a modern looking glass

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Do You Need to Force Yourself to be Cash Poor to Stay on Track?

Like most things in life, I truly believe that the basics of personal finance is a combination of mental toughness and knowing yourself. I know I need barriers between me and cash; this is the very reason I can’t carry cash on me. Talk about a weird feeling when I have debit card $3.33 from McDonalds

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2 Years of Blogging! Something More Important than Finances

When I was deciding how to memorialize my second year of blogging I thought of two things. A blog give away or a really detailed financial update as to what has changed in my life since I wrote my first post on August 5th, 2008. But then it hit me, it would be a

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