Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
~Orison Swett Marden~
Don’t let the title scare you it is a minor change and Im actually not quite sure how it will affect us. When you create your ads you may have noticed, and hopefully used, ways to customize the look of your ads. This allows us to change colors of the fonts, background and border as well as changing the type of font we want to use and size. This allows you to make the ads look more a part of your site or make them really stand out. Most of us will use this to [...]
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Yep I was getting tired of Mint‘s iPhone app on my iPad. Hitting the 2x button and seeing it all pixelated, wishing they would come out with an app for just the iPad. Well they read my mind and came out with one just for me! Ok it is available for everyone and if you haven’t upgraded or installed it you really should. While I planed on doing a cool review and such it seems some one else read my mind and did it already. So I didn’t want to steal her thunder and do [...]
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If you are in Business for your self, either part time or full time, you most likely accept credit cards as a form of payment. It cost a little more than taking cash but its worth it making it convenient for your clients to pay you easily. Even if you don’t take credit cards directly many of us use third party services such as Paypal to take payment for services or products we have to offer. Well a new section to 6050W of the IRS code will have credit card service providers (your merchant account) [...]
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Yep its a new year, the traditional time to sit down and make our goals for the year. Not resolutions like ‘I will lose weight this year’, which typically get broken quickly, rather firm measurable goals like ‘I will lose 30 pounds this year’. Something you can plan for, perhaps break down to monthly and/or weekly goals, and measure your success. Well like so many of you this post is about my 2012 goals. Both personal and financial as a record so that I can revisit and see how I am doing. My monthly and [...]
View PostIts been a week already?? Wow that one went by really quick. Been a crazy busy week for photography and going through next week. Hope that translates into a good Oct. Actually Oct is almost booked so just got to get the orderings sessions going. Blogs I have enjoyed this week. Why PF Bloggers Should Never Date Each Other by So Over Debt The Jedi Budget (Standard, Common) by Master the Art of Savings How To Set Up A Financial Contingency Plan by Not Made of Money $1000 emergency fund? 6 months expenses? 1 year salary? Throw them [...]
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I know this blog is about finances and making money and stuff, but this post is not. Unless you are like me and consider your health a stream of income as well. Cant enjoy the wealth if you are not well! So if you are only here for the money I’ll forgive you and you can move on. Anxiety In my last post I was talking about walking in circles in life, well yesterday the anxiety reared its head again. I have had anxiety issues in the past, so much so that last year it [...]
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Well its the end of another month and time to run all the reports and stats to see where I am and how I did. Each month I post how I made my secondary income, as well as how I spent, saved and reduced my debt. Photography Business The studio income far exceeded my comfy level this month. Not a record month but a very good one. Hope it continues on into the new year. Even had another big sale this week but it docent look like it will hit the bank till after the [...]
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Now I dont like getting political but this new law effects many people in many ways and should have never been passed IMHO. The main goal of this bill was to gain 200+ million in new taxes to help with the budget but in fact will end up costing the state perhaps that much or more. All they had to do was look at other states where it has been tried and see that it has failed. So what is this new bill? Well before this law only businesses with a ‘Physical’ presence in CA [...]
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I have gone all in with growing my own food lately and doing most of it hydroponically. Growing this way it is best to use dechloronated water and the easiest way to do this is to use rain water or if from the tap let it set around for at least 24 hours. So I started doing researchIn building my own water storage system and this lead me to rain water collection. Free Water Being Wasted As I did my morning walk I was looking around at homes and all the rain gutters just flow [...]
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While shopping for some wood for a shelf in the greenhouse I got to thinking how much more do I spend for convenience? Let me fill you in. I needed to put in a shelf in the back of the greenhouse for buckets (which are 12″ wide). I could go one of three routes. 1. The cheapest would be to just get a 4′x8′ sheet of plywood, muscle it into the truck and cut it when I got home. This also would have given me a lot of left overs. 2. Lowes also has pre-cut [...]
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In an interest to work on my health issues the natural way I have been doing my best to eat more fruits and fresh veggies. This means at least 2 if not 3 trips a week to my local health food store or farmers market.this gets time consuming, costs cost and the veggies are not cheap. This lead me to thinking about doing the backyard garden again, except for a few minor things: Having to clean the backyard Having to put in raised beds Having to buy or condition soil Planting Weeding Bugs Bending over [...]
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Well I went to see the specialist again this week to go over the last batch of test results. Apparently all normal, so he says the last ANA test was a false positive (2 in a year though?). So the good news that everything says no autoimmune disorder. So the docs diagnosis at this time is Fibromyalgia. What is Fibromyalgia? I still have some doubts about it, from what I have read I don’t meet all the requirements, but my mom has it as well and she didn’t have all the markers early on either. [...]
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Choosing headphones can be fun, but it’s certainly no fun when you realise you’ve been through around five pairs in the past year. Searching for the right pair of headphones can seem like an epic, never-ending quest. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. There are certain things you have to think about before charging into a store and picking out a pair of headphones that look cool or ‘have great bass’. If you’re looking for the real deal, you might have to sell some of your stuff to save up – visit www.musicmagpie.com [...]
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Last week J Money over at Budgets are Sexy had a post of a list of things he does and does not pay for, which he got off a couple other blogs doing the same thing. So I decided to play along going of their lists and showing what I do and don’t pay for in my life Here were all 27 things I DO pay for from their lists ATM Fees — Well I don’t pull cash out but I use my check card everywhere so there are some fees here and there Clothes [...]
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