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An Example of Real Life Opportunity Cost Analysis Using Creed Green Irish Tweed Bar Soap

September 20, 2010 By 1 Comment
Creed Green Irish Tweed Bar Soap

Here is a fantastic example of how we manage our money around here that will help you understand our approach to capital when it comes to our personal balance sheets and income statements. By now, you all know about my Creed fragrance addiction.  I've taken four showers thus far with the Creed Green Irish Tweed bar soap from the other day and I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised. It lathers really, really well. The retail price is $35 per bar plus tax, so in Kansas City that works out to … [Read more...]

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Kansas City Chiefs Season Tickets

September 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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My mom just sent these pictures from her and dad's reserved season ticket holder seats for the Kansas City Chiefs. They love it - she gets a little, um ... loud ... at sporting events.  Compared to me - If I were there, I would enjoy it but I'd have my head in a book half of the time and only look up when the crowd started yelling.  Probably something that didn't require a lot of concentration like the Morningstar Stock Guides or the S&P Stock sheets ... … [Read more...]

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The Reason the Video Game Industry Is Bigger Than Hollywood

September 5, 2010 By 1 Comment
Tales of Vesperia

Tales of Vesperia continues to rock my world.  I played for several hours again today after reading wealth reports and working on the upcoming About.com content I've been writing this week (I tend to publish the good stuff over there in big batches because I like for it all to work together and be cohesive).  The rest of my week is going to be consumed by preparing for a Board of Directors meeting with my sporting good company, which will probably be held in Kansas City or Houston, I haven't … [Read more...]

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Free Trade Isn’t Always Fair Trade

September 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Free Trade and Fair Trade Global Policies

A few days ago, I wrote a five-part essay called How to Solve the Trade Deficit in response to a reader question about trade policy in the United States. The reader, Adam, responded on his blog.  Here is my followup to his commentary. I Would Love to Run Trade Surpluses But It Isn't Going to Happen If the United States were to run trade surpluses, as opposed to going trade neutral, we would be accused of mercantilism (rightly).  This would immediately cause our trade partners around … [Read more...]

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New Wardrobe Additions for the Wedding

August 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Kelsey and Tyler's Wedding Gift

Aaron and I went shopping today for my sister and soon-to-be-brother-in-law's wedding gifts.  We also decided we wanted to wear something new that wasn't parked in our respective closets so we headed to Nordstrom and a few other stores. I ended up going with a modern cut lavender white stripe dress shirt with mother-of-pearl buttons and a silk bow tie in the same color family, which I will wear with a charcoal gray suit with white and faint blue pinstripes.  I took a picture so I could send … [Read more...]

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The Creed Fragrance Counter Is One of My Favorite Places in the World

July 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Creed Bois du Portugal

This morning, I walk into my kitchen to find my grandmother and mother sitting there waiting for me, wanting to know if I want to go out and eat or spend the day together.  Long story short, the three of us, plus my youngest sister, who is in high school, end up at the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City for a day of luxury shopping and fine food.  It was what life is all about, in a nutshell; experiencing great things with people you love. Creed Fragrance - One of My Favorite Companies in … [Read more...]

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A Night at the Casino

April 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Ruby at the Casino

Ruby wanted to visit a much larger casino, so Aaron and I took her to the Ameristar casino in Kansas City and she treated us to dinner and a bit of gambling money (with firm instructions that I *had* to spend it in the casino - I was not allowed to pocket it and invest it, as is my habit with everything that flows into my life - which made me laugh because my family knows me well). Here are some pictures of where we went with the rest of this post written in the captions of each image. … [Read more...]

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An Evening in the J.C. Penney’s Men’s Department

March 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Stafford Dress Shirts from J.C. Penny's

As promised in Department Store Sales Make Me Really Happy, Aaron and I headed out to J.C. Penney to follow up on the stuff I had mentioned and, sure enough, the sales were spectacular.  It's clearly a different feel from the regular Nordstrom, Charles Tyrwhitt, and Thomas Pink shopping experiences from my New York days, but the amazing thing is I was able to get 1 pair of blue jeans, 2 t-shirts, 3 polo shirts, 5 dress shirts, and 5 ties.  Before the sale, the total would have cost $540.74.  … [Read more...]

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My Mom at the Billy Joel and Elton John Concert

February 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
My mom at the Elton John and Billy Joel Concert

My mom wasn't allowed to go see Elton John as a kid.  She came from a very fundamentalist household and seeing a "homosexual" wasn't something God's people did, or so they were told.  So, she would wait up at night and watch him on television instead of going to bed.  Once she was old enough, she had all of his albums and when he walks out on stage (she's seem him twice - once in 2005 and then again last night), she is able to get some serious volume to her screams of joy.  To this day, she … [Read more...]

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The Billy Joel and Elton John Concert in Kansas City at the Sprint Center Tonight Was Great

February 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Elton John and Billy Joel Concert in Kansas City at the Sprint Center

There's a Good Chance That Were It Not for these Two Men, You Wouldn't Be Reading This Blog Right Now My mom, arguably as big of an Elton John fan as I am, took Aaron and me to the Billy Joel and Elton John Concert in Kansas City at the Sprint Center.  (Thanks again mom!) My life was incalculably changed because of both Billy Joel and Elton John, as most of you who know me realize, and seeing them live together at the Sprint Center in Kansas City tonight was awesome. I had never seen … [Read more...]

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