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In my living room, I have a halogen floor lamp that uses two 150 W bulbs. They’re also 3-way lights that could go from dim to bright level, except that my lamp can only handle two levels. It’s really hard to find 3-way 150-watt equivalent compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. When I finally found it [...] My brain has been gifted with a pretty good spell-checker but not so good calculator. Instead of doing straight out calculations, I sometimes resort to some math magic. Let’s take going out to eat at a restaurant as an example. When going with a group, it’s more complicated if people want to pay according to [...] For a number of reasons, I ended up with four bank accounts: free ipod (that I gave to my brother), high interest rate, convenient location. One of the credit unions lost its luster when it no longer had competitive interest rates and was at an inconvenient city relative to my current locations for work and [...] In case you didn’t know, taxes are due on the 17th of April instead of the usual 15th. Check out the IRS’s page on the April 17 Deadline (which was pretty hard to find at the time of this writing). Taxpayers will have extra time to file and pay because April 15 falls on a Sunday [...] I’ve reached a financial crossroad, where my car loan balance is something I could reasonably pay off 6 months early and I’ve recently gotten a windfall. I chatted with a friend who is much better with numbers than I am and he pretty much said that paying off the loan won’t save me that much [...] |
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