Early Retirement Extreme

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Published in December 27th, 2007

Posted by Jacob in personal finance, shopping

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!All too often shoppers are baited with savings on sales. Sometimes these so-called savings are even “instant”, whatever that means. I’m guessing it means not having to navigate the hell of cashing in rebates? Rebates belong right up there [...]

Own quality not quantity

Published in December 15th, 2007

Posted by Jacob in shopping

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Here’s a good tip. When you need to replace something, buy the best you could ever imagine yourself using. For instance, I could never imagine myself wearing $500 shades, but I could imagine myself wearing $100 shades. In fact I do, and I have been wearing a the same set of Rayban Predator II for [...]

Everybody wants to …

Published in December 10th, 2007

Posted by Jacob in saving, shopping, vacation

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When I was a precocious kid i.e. annoying like I am now, but in a cuter and more excusable kind of way, our family went on a road trip through Sweden. I was reading the road signs as a way of passing time. This in retrospect helped prepare me for a brilliant career in scientific [...]