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Restaurant in Intercontinental Hotel Kansas City

My Day In Pictures – Hiding In One of Kansas City’s Top Luxury Hotels, Enjoying Room Service, Going Over Stocks, and Playing with New iPads March 23rd / 24th, 2011

Last night, I realized that I needed to take a trip to the local Charles Schwab & Company branch office to turn over a framed Berkshire Hathaway Class B certificate that we had on the office wall for a few years as decor because the stock split 50-1 and the transfer agent had been continually…

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Making $100,000 Per Year as a College Student

How We Made $100,000 a Year as Full-Time College Students

I found some of our old tax filings from last decade!  It turns out that around our college days, living together in the apartment complex next to the Quakerbridge Mall in Princeton, New Jersey, our combined household income was somewhere between $80,000 and $100,000 even though neither of us had full-time jobs and we were both students attending school on music scholarships.  (This is the same apartment that I showed you a few months ago.)  The difference between the two figures depends on whether you count unrealized capital gains as “income” since our net worth was increasing but it didn’t reflect in our taxes at the time.

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Kitchen Aid Corn Muffins

My Day In Pictures – Sunday, February 6th, 2011

This upcoming week is going to be busy. I have to finalize the accounting approval for last year before sending off all of the records to the firm that prepares our taxes, I have to drop off the finalized terms contract for the attorneys that are helping me explore launching my own financial vehicle, I have to write two or three new pieces of About.com content, I need to continue studying CSS because I love it, and I have to work on a lot of other stuff that you probably don’t really want to hear about – I’d like to get through the technology sector annual reports, finalize the list of stocks I plan to buy through my pension plan once the upcoming contribution is finalized, etc.

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