Thrifty Trend

You are welcome to visit the new blog and download the latest release of “Free Stocks Ticker“.

You might also enjoy the following recent posts:

* TCF Bank misterous actual Money Market APR, promise 3% - pay 1.6%

* Dell offering rock bottom pricing… on outdated and crippled desktops

* Let’s say you had a heads up of 14 hours before Titanic collides ice berg… California to hit an ice berg

* Hedge Fund Guy Says: Madoff Investors were ‘Greedy’ - should have probed their own hedge fund guy further

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Guest Post by Robin Williams

Debt is simple to acquire but you cannot overcome it easily. The debt cycle is vicious and if you don’t take appropriate measures to stop it immediately, it can spoil your life. If you presently have excessive debt, you must act now to reduce your total debt amount to prevent further difficulties in the future. Getting rid of your debt is not a simple task nor would take place right away, however, there are some debt options available for you. You should try to make the most of them.

The Solution

There is hope for you. You don’t have to survive with debt. You can take intensive measures in the correct direction now and get the debt help you require. Disregarding your debt problems would not clear them up, you should combat with every available option. You can solve your debt problems with the help of personal financial planners, debt counselors and debt management companies. Discover the techniques through which you can get back on track. Debt help is just around the corner, you have to just research the options that are being offered. Before everything else, you must understand that you are in a vicious debt cycle that would not correct on its own. This is very much crucial for your financial improvement.

Obtaining Debt Help

For accomplishing financial steadiness and destroying your debt cycle, you can request for debt help from debt professionals.

Following are different debt help options that can free you from debt:

Credit counseling: Credit counselors and debt counselors have only one objective: assisting with your personal debt elimination. They are skilled professionals and would work with you by evaluating your present financial condition elaborately. They can suggest the most appropriate option for you. Depending on the situation of your debt problems, they can help you obtain debt solutions like the following:

1) Debt Management Programs (DMPs): A debt management program is a sensible budget with debt payment plans. On the basis of how much you are obliged to repay and to whom, a useful strategy would be designed to pay off your debt.

2) Debt Consolidation Loans: These loans are utilized to combine all your existing debts to one single and affordable payment. Just through one loan, you can get rid of all your debts. Not only you save money on your interest payments, but also you make quicker repayment of your debts.

Recent posts:

A Thrifty Trend Indeed

Friday Funny: The return of fail blog

Detroit slowly but surely becoming a ghost town

Sad reality: If you win this $3 Million Mansion - you’re likely to end up a tax criminal. Can’t afford it.

More great new posts are on the pipeline, including ported pages and posts from this clunker of a site.

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And the post is on my new blog - which has much lower google rating, and no incoming links from anywhere right now. So click and enjoy:

Miss CA, Carrie Prejean interviews Trump about finance - weirdness ensues

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About a year ago I released “Free Stocks Ticker”, it now serves me more as a generic news and quotes tool.

Before I build a new page for it on my new blog, I thought it might be useful to rename it appropriately. I’m posting it here because for now - this blog has better exposure to incoming links.

Also, I was thinking on extending it’s abilities to arrange RSS feeds in a tree, and then allowing the new random feature on each tree node - so that you can choose “channels” to scroll. Thoughts?

There are many other things that can be done with RSS feeds - any wishes for extensions there? Perhaps a silent bar that only becomes visible and scrolls things if they are absolutely new and have never been displayed - like an alert? Stock news alerts?

All non-spam comments are welcome.
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I must redirect you to where it is all posted:

* The world’s most arrogant millionaire: Trump

* Don’t Bother SEC Staffers; They’re Busy

* Taxman Grabs Half of Sold Virginity Profits

Quick update on the blog “relocation”: It’s slower than expected, and will soon get even slower, but I’m happy with the new format and urge everyone to book mark my new blog and visit there often.

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Posted on my new blog:

thriftytrend.blogspot.com: Bought Wii at discount, Looking at games for my 4 year old

As mentioned before, I’ve had it with blogvis’ shenanigans. I’ve made a decision to move as much content as possible to a new blog.

Unfortunately, “withinmymeans” is taken both as .com domain as well as a blogspot blog.

I decided to name my new blog: “Thrifty Trend”. Here’s the link
thriftytrend.blogspot.com

Slowly but surely, I will be moving my main content from here to there.

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Where’s the adsense manager? Gone

Where are all the custom text widgets with entrecard, mybloglog, donate button, and blogcatalog? Gone

This is so frustrating!

I guess I’m forced to seek a new host and domain!!!

One of the rare REIT to have not lost 80% in value since last year - so fundamentally there are enough reasons to like this company.

However, the chart for this thing tells a tale of horror.

Click for details.

I guess this is in someway related to my very previous post….

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Lot’s of pictures found: here (including a few other funny categories)

A select few:
The one reason to be scared in roller coaster rides

OK, maybe the 2nd reason to be scared. Dumb bird. (the bird, not the girl)

Helllooooo…

The scariest ride for kids under 7. It’s not the little girl that’s so funny, as much as the big mama.

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So long everybody, I’ll just go study law - and stay in 3rd year forever.

Something just sounds too good to be true (especially at these times).

Getting Paid Not to Work

As many Americans are struggling to find a job, some are getting paid as much as $80,000 a year not to work.

A number of third-year law students on the brink of graduation are being asked by their future employers to stay home for now - with pay.

Over 100 large firms, or firms with 200 or more attorneys, have delayed the start date for at least a portion of their incoming first-year associates, according to Above the Law, a blog covering the legal industry. The majority of those firms have delayed start dates into 2010, and provided some financial assistance to those on standby, Above the Law said, a move that doesn’t come cheap.

Some students have been offered hefty stipends of up to $80,000, and even full benefits in some cases.

“The firms want to keep these people and don’t want to lose them,” explained Andy Stettner, deputy director at the National Employment Law Project.

I had a boss who at times was paid not to work - just to keep him away from continue to damage company. He had a contract, they couldn’t fire him - so they paid him to stay away. That happened to that person more than once in his life, I would call him a lucky bastard - except that the proper term would be “just a bastard”.

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And no, by spiders - I don’t mean these ETF-s:

XLY - Consumer Discretionry Select Sector SPDR

XLP - Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR

XLE - Energy Select Sector SPDR

XLF - Financial Select Sector SPDR

XLV - Health Care Select Sector SPDR

XLI - Industrial Select Sector SPDR

XLB - Materials Select Sector SPDR

And more…. they’re great ETF-s and good alternative to mutual funds, but that’s not the point of this post.

I mean these spiders:

Oy - that’s big.

Yet another story of attack of giant spiders - like in a cheap sci-fi movie:
Giant spiders invade Australian Outback town

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Stop watching stocks tumble: Funny photos to assist in distracting you:
Click here for a full listing and relevant commentary.

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An update from Sivan: Continue seeking great coupons with me on my new blog: Thrifty Trend

Found it on fatwallet, after Oprah’s site took it off. Coupon is valid till 5/19!

Download: Coupon

Fatwallet post: here.

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