June 13th, 2008 at 3:22 am

MMM-115: Fashionable Frugality

Get your A-shirts on and move into your double-wide trailer! Frugality. Splits. Journey Revelation. Google Spreadsheets Forms. Buffet’s Big Bet. 3 candidates. iPhone. MMM Survey.

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Topics in this week’s show include:     MMM-115    

  • I was going to call this episode “A Wifebeater” but thought better of it. 
  • Scott Burns says old folks should share a double-wide trailer.
  • Please take the MMM Survey!
  • Better than having to live in a double-wide trailer, have Index Funds Advisors help your plan your financial freedom.
  • 12 New Necessities that drain your cash.
  • And buy cheap electronics too.image
  • The iPhone 8GB will be $199 (ah, but the ATT monthly plan will be $70 at a minimum).
  • The Stock Chartists are getting dizzy as the S&P 500 keeps bouncing above and below its moving averages.
  • Are there just two men running for president?
  • TrueOhioPlaya wonders about the Vanguard ETF splits. And is it time to write covered calls?
  • Jason out of Muscatine says please, please, please try Linux.
  • Jason out of Muscatine says his friend hasn’t taken the Risk Capacity Survey because he doesn’t have enough money. BAH! You don’t need to invest with IFA in order to review the survey results. And here is the link listing alternative investments, such as Vanguard.
  • Caller tries to snare me in a snake pit and answer whether spending time on a real estate business or just buying a REIT would be best. hahaha
  • Our Guru this week is Journey. Get their latest 3-disc album Revelation. Arnel Pineda can out-Perry Steve Perry.
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  • I compare Perry and Pineda on Who’s Crying Now? Perry will be in your left ear. Pineda will be in your right ear. Or was it the other way around?
  • image This week’s Tool is Google Spreadsheets that allows you to create Surveys for free.
  • Next week’s show, MMM-116, is my interpretation of the Couch to 5K Running plan which I break out into 12 Steps (naturally). Create a playlist in your iTunes software and add MMM-116 into the playlist so that it doesn’t get deleted.
  • Buffet has placed a big bet that Vanguard’s S&P 500 index fund will beat a collection of hedge funds over 10 years.
  • What should we stock up on at the grocery store?

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    Paul,

    I will see your running (which kills the knees) and raise you the extremely uncelebrated Schwinn Airdyne bike, a television, and a set of wireless headphones. After having lost close to 35 pounds this year, consistent exercise has made me a believer in this product and it is only the cost of 3-4 pairs of expensive running shoes.

    ravjim on June 16th, 2008
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    Who’s the bra-less young lady?
    Seriously, watch your knees if you are road-running at (our) age. Don’t tear a cruciate. $1 says that you’re not still doing it in 1 year.
    Love the show

    Best Ian CM

    thmk49 on June 20th, 2008
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    Comment #2
    I think the trend is to accept that 70 is the new 60 and keep on working at a job you like and think is worthwhile, slowing down gradually over a “decade of retirement” from 60+. My version of frugality.

    thmk49 on June 20th, 2008

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