the boomer live

Looking for ways to save money in these tough times?  Stamps.com is offering a free trial for 4 weeks and giving away, $25 in free postage, a free digital scale, and $5 in print supplies.  Use the freebies to send off your holiday parcels or cards. Only string attached is that you have to give [...]

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Check out which stores are discounting what items on the day after Thanksgiving at BLACKFRIDAY.INFO ,  BLACKFRIDAY@GOTTADEAL.COM.  We always check prices against online vendors such as Amazon on the morning of the sale to check the deals.  Another thought we had is because the economy is so bad this year there may be better sales [...]

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Google is now hosting millions of photos from Life Magazine photo archives, from 1750 to present.  Most have never been published.  You can view the pictures here Life Photo Archive @ Google.  You can search the photos using the “Search Life Images” box, or if you use a standard Google search box insert “source:life” after [...]

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Peter Lynch ran the highly successful Fidelity Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990, one of his mantra’s was to buy stocks you know, e.g. Do you prefer a particular store in the mall when there is a choice?  I have been using the Apple store at International Plaza as a guide on Apple and the [...]

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On 26th October Vicki celebrated a "milestone birthday" , (for my own safety I will not mention which one).  We were on a Caribbean cruise on the MS Noordam, the picture above shows our dinner waiters singing happy birthday (in Indonesian!).  As you can see in the pictures below, when we got home from [...]

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