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Taxes Stocks Electric Cars
OK. There’s so much going on that it has been hard to know where to start. So, pardon me as I literally roll up my sleeves. I didn’t need to roll them up, but that act let me think a … Continue reading
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Tagged Dream. Invest. Live., ElectraMeccanica, electric cars, frugal, frugality, Great Resignation, health insurance, HELOC, income tax, investing, personal finance, real estate, real estate broker, self employment, SOLO, stocks, tax havens, taxes, WA Health Plan Finder
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Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, circa 1997
The Berlin Wall had fallen. The USSR had broken up. I was a Boeing engineer at a ICBM assembly plant in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. The people I was working with had just been through an upheaval after an upheaval. For decades … Continue reading
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Tagged aerospace, Boeing, frugal, frugal folk, personal finance, Russia, Ukraine
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The Power Of The Customer
I fired my bank. A few days ago I closed my account with Whidbey Island Bank. I started that account in 2005, very soon after moving to Whidbey Island. They were a bit surprised, and inquisitive, but weren’t about to … Continue reading
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Tagged community, consumer, consumer advocacy, frugal, Jeep, personal finance, shop local, small town, Whidbey
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Reflecting On 2021 – A List
2021 is over. Yay. Whew. Wow. I felt exhausted, but that’s because I was. It was a challenging year. Ah, but there had to be good in there, and I wanted to remind myself of it. I felt like I … Continue reading
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Tagged anxieties, frugal, HELOC, hiking, housing, investing, Jeep, MVIS, pandemic, personal finance, photography, real estate, real estate broker, Retirement, retiring anxieties, stocks, truck, Twelve Month series, Whidbey, writing
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Semi Annual Exercise EOY 2021
As I note at the start of my stock synopses that are posted on the discussion boards listed below; “INTRO Here’s my semi-annual exercise to see if I remember why I own the stocks I own, and so I can … Continue reading
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Tagged ALAYCPYB, Dream. Invest. Live., ElectraMeccanica, frugal, frugality, GERN, Geron, investing, Investor Village, Lineage Cell Therapeutics, LTCX, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, NPTN, personal finance, portfolio, reddit, Silicon Investor, SolarWindow, SOLO, stocks, wealth, WNDW
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Soup Stock Versus Company Stock
It’s the Friday after Thanksgiving as I type this. (Apologies to those reading from the future.) Many things are on my mind, but on such a day two things dominate – besides the occasional burp. The bird is cooked, so … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, Dream. Invest. Live., Electra Meccanica, ElectraMeccanica, frugal, frugality, FTCI, GERN, HTOO, investing, KULR, MVIS, personal finance, Solar Window, SolarWindow, SOLO, stocks, SUNW, Walking Thinking Drinking Across Scotland, WNDW, zazzle
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Getting Better Slowly
Yay! Good news! Getting the loan on my house means a long string of long-delayed tasks can get done. Ah. What? A loan doesn’t equate to money in my account, which doesn’t translate to immediately paying off lots of bills, … Continue reading
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Tagged community, debt, Dream. Invest. Live., frugal, frugality, investing, optimism, personal finance, pessimism, stocks, sustainability
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An Evening Off From Writing – Ha
But, but I have to write. It’s that time of night! Dinner is done, and for the past several months that’s meant turning off the ‘TV’ (really a Roku connected to a monitor and the internet, ‘TV’ takes fewer letters), … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, author, blurb, books, essays, frugal, frugality, investing, Just Keep Pedaling, modern self-publishing, nature, personal finance, photos, print on demand, publishing, self publishing, Twelve Month series, Twelve Months, Whidbey, writers, writing
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The Great Resignation
(The following is an expansion of post from PretendingNotToPanic.com.) The middle class was born about 650 yeas ago. It wasn’t by governmental decree, though there were probably some declarations declared. It wasn’t by some great grass-roots organization, though there was … Continue reading
A Home Loan To Retire Anxieties
A nice way to start the day, sending out a ‘thank you’ email, arranging to pay an overdue bill, contacting a doctor I actually enjoy visiting, and a hopefully scheduling a massage. Money makes things move. For several months I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, frugal, frugality, HELOC, Home Equity Line Of Credit, housing, investing, mortgage, mortgage modification, MVIS, personal finance, poverty, real estate, refinancing, stocks, Whidbey
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