Accumulating wealth is like building The Great Wall, one brick at a time
Category: LivingBy Sun on Apr 23, 2008 in Living | 8 Comments
Yesterday on my way to home, I heard on radio that some Costco stores in the California’s Bay area are setting limits on how much rice and flour a customer can purchase. According to Costco’s CEO, the limits were put in place after what he saw as “unusual demands” for basic items. And Costco is […]
By Sun on Apr 11, 2008 in Living | 11 Comments
Do you get a lot of junks, such as catalogs, coupon books, and pre-approved credit card offers, in the mail?
According to 41pounds.org, the average adult in this country receives 41 pounds of unwanted junk mail each year. That’s a lot of junk mail!
In the May issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, the magazine listed several ways […]
By Sun on Mar 11, 2008 in Living | 6 Comments
One big story over the weekend is that an Associated Press investigation found that more than 41 million Americans are drinking water contaminated by antibiotic, anti-depression medicine, and sex hormones for areas from Southern California to Northern New Jersey.
It really sounds scary when thinking of all the stuff coming out of my tap. However, the […]
By Sun on Jan 10, 2008 in Living | 4 Comments
Part of our efforts to save on heating oil and reduce the overall energy bill in the winter is use radiators in the evening so the temperature in the house can be kept low. While we may have lowered heating oil consumption so far this winter, the spending on electricity certainly went up, a lot, […]
By Sun on Nov 19, 2007 in Living | 8 Comments
Morgan Quitno Press recently published its annual City Crime Ranking which ranks 384 cities with 75,000 population or more across the country based on per-capita crime rates reported by the FBI. Serious crimes considered in the study include murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft. According to the publisher, each crime is […]
By Sun on Nov 15, 2007 in Living | 5 Comments
Last year, when I got our first heating oil bill after the summer, I was pleasantly surprised that from May to October, we only used 27 gallons of oil! Sure, the usage of heating oil probably dropped to the minimum in the summer (not the electricity bill though ), but still 27-gallon was just […]
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