Is it time for you to take some risks? As many of you know, in addition to rambling about how to buy a car, I’m a bit of a poker junkie. I find it both intellectually stimulating and a mildly profitable hobby. It’s also a great source of personal finance analogies! Professional poker players and […]
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Technical Issues Explained As some new readers have noticed over the past 48 hours, Yakezie.com has been experiencing some technical difficulties. The latest scholarship was listed on Fastweb.com thanks to Little House’s community outreach efforts, and in a matter of a few hours, we received over 6,000 additional visitors from the site, or nearly 6x […]
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My first “real” career was serving in the United States Navy. I learned a lot of life skills as well as professional ones during my stint. But like many young people, couldn’t wait to become a civilian and get paid for my skills versus my rank. I immediately signed up for the Naval Reserves and […]
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We’re pleased to announce that the second Yakezie Writing Contest is now live! We are expanding the applicant pool to include college students who are paying the majority of their tuition on their own in addition to high school students or younger. The first contest was a success thanks to all of you, and we’d like […]
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“The Millionaire Next Door” by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko was first released in 1996, and just re-released in 2010. The information is just as timely now as it was originally published. This edition is a reprint of the 1996 edition with a new forward by Thomas. I wish they would update the statistics for today, […]
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During my 20’s it was easy to live in the present, only ever thinking of retirement as being a far-off fuzzy “what if” scenario. Colleagues in their 40’s would caution me to start planning for this distant event before it was too late. However, I didn’t take their sage-advice and somehow thought my path would […]
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If you follow Consumerism Commentary, and I hope you do, you might have seen that I recently left the company I’ve worked for during the day for the past eight years. Since 2003 but particularly in the past few years, Consumerism Commentary has been a side project — even though I often contributed more than […]
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As you may or may not know, the goals of the Yakezie network are the noble Writing Contest cause, and the selfless support of the members within! But I have a secret desire for the Yakezie network too! And that desire is… (drum-roll, please…) continuous financial improvement and learning additional knowledge in diverse subject matter. […]
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