Disclaimer:  Bragging.   WOO HOO, I put a chunk in my IRA this week... on  JUST the right day...  I'm up on that purchase.

NOOOOO!!!  This would be the end of small towns and remote places.  There are still things that MUST be sent by paper (my bank's "bill pay" uses the mail to send checks.)  Reduce services, like cutting Saturdays, reducing home delivery in places where P.O. boxes are available. (In the some of the islands, there is no h...more

We're in escrow.  Selling for 80% of what we bought the place for 8 years ago.  The vultures are circling...

Hey-- I've bought used cars on my credit card! I don't abuse credit cards because I PAY THEM OFF AT THE END OF EVERY MONTH-- yes, including the "used car" month.  (In 20+ years of adult life, I've carried a balance TWICE.)  I earn frequent flyer miles and I USE them (I haven't paid for a ticket in a long time- they are...more

I'm helping my kid thru college.  (key word-- "Help")  Uncle Sam helped me, and  we make enough that my kid doesn't qualify for government handouts that I did.  After undergrad, he'll be "helping" himself.  I think that's how Pell grants were intended-- so that the next generation doesn't need them.  If my next oldes...more

We loved the dollar coin when we lived in the suburbs of Seattle because they were great for riding the Sounder train.  The tooth fairy used them at our house too, but ... we live somewhere now where we never see them in circulation.

Wow!  What a huge loop hole!  If I were the government that left that door open, I'd be embarrassed.  Should he be allowed to stay?  If all is legal-- yes.  But close that legal loophole.

LOVE Sioux City, and would move back there if there were a job for us.  Great people!