Frugal Trader at Million Dollar Journey had a fun post last week about expanding his home theatre system (n.b. jealous!). The comments on this post quickly turned to service provider options, and the oft used tactic of using a competitor’s offer as leverage in negotiating a better deal. Frugal Trader used this tactic, and in [...]
Blame it on my youthful exuberance, but my investment strategy has always been focused on looking for the next big thing, those stocks that carry some risk but hold the promise of significant price increases. I have been the antithesis of Warren Buffett- I wouldn’t buy a stock today that I could imagine still holding [...]
I’m moving my weekly round-up to Saturday, and this is the first in a number of changes that I’ll be making to this site over the next week. While I liked the Mid-Week Roundup as a nice way to break up the week, it just makes more sense to have it at the end. It [...]
My house is just a stone throw from Lester’s Farm, a great farm with a produce market during the summer. They carry some excellent local and imported veggies, lamb, and turkey, but I’m most impressed with their wonderful local chanterelle mushrooms. It would be a shame to bury the nutty, peppery flavour of these mushrooms [...]
Whew, that was easy!
I’m sure there are plenty of ways to make $50 in less than an hour and a half, but few are as easy (or legal) as participating in a marketing focus group. Plus, you get cookies!
Last night, I was part of a focus group session for a local marketing company. The night [...]