This morning, I was reading the trailer to a new movie called Thelma. Per IMDB: When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her. Go Grandma! I’m looking forward to seeing the […]
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After about 2 weeks with the Lexie B2 Plus powered by Bose, I’ve sent them home. If you’ve read my other hearing aid post here, you’ve heard how much I liked these hearing aids. They were great. They just weren’t as good as the Jabra Enhance Select 500, and they had one problem that was
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In many of my posts, I talk about the need to have an investment thesis for companies in which we choose to invest. This is a must, however, I’m not in love with the term thesis. The term thesis, to me, implies that there will be a lot of work and very little of it
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Wait, What? How is that helpful? It’s not, but you may be paying more for car insurance than you should. Why? Read on to find out. I Hate Insurance I just recently sent in a check (well, not really, I use autopay to save 5%) to pay my annual car, home and umbrella insurance for
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It’s in the high 90’s here in Central MA and it’s too hot to be outside, so I’ve been spending some time with my spreadsheets. Boy, I hope it cools off soon…anyway, I decided to take a look at my investment performance over the years. While overall I’ve done well, there are some definite patterns
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Who doesn’t love tractors – right? That’s how I became a John Deere (ticker: DE) investor. At least, that’s how it started. Read on to see how I decided to buy shares and how I revisited my opinion on Deere this morning. Technology I like technology. I was the first person I knew who had
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As a follow-up to last week’s post on buying hearing aids, I wanted to update folks on my experience with hear.com. I received my $4,250 credit from my return. Background Quick background: I wanted to try some alternative hearing aids and hear.com came up often in my research. I took on online hearing test, and
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I’ve been looking at the jobs numbers for March and I have more questions than answers. I know, not a good opening line, but hopefully it generates some thoughts and discussion. Reading the news, we get a very conflicted story about the economy, inflation and job growth. Inflation A wrote a post recently on inflation
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Checking, Savings, High Yield, Money Market, Treasuries…so many choices, which one is right? In today’s post we’ll talk about the different options for low to no risk places to put our cash. And spoiler alert…no one product is the right one. You’ll likely have a mix of several products to maximize your income while preserving
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I use the term conviction quite a bit when I talk about evaluating companies. Before I choose to invest my hard earned money a company, I want to have conviction, but what does that mean? According to dictionary.com, conviction is a fixed or firm belief. It’s the act of convincing a person by argument or
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