As I’m in my last semester of my second MBA, an interesting thing happened the first day at class.   The professor asked the class why students were interested in earning their MBAs. While the responses varied from “opportunity” to “options” the common theme was that it was the baseline degree now needed for a management…
Month: August 2013
Paid Off My Student Loans With ZERO Balance Transfer Offer
If you’re too stupid to get rid of student loan debt as quickly as you get it in, then you deserve to rot in student loan hell.  I’ve outlined my awesome student loan debt laundering scheme here and since Chase kept sending me ridiculous balance transfer offers for zero percent, I decided I would student-debt-launder…
Two Year Anniversary of Being Cable Free – Guess What Kids Still Don’t Want Cable TV!
So in October it will be two years since I gave my kids an ultimatum, “if you want iPhones, you must give up cable TV” and they opted for the iphones over TV. Since the two year contract was coming to an end, I asked my kids if they were interested in giving up their…
It’s Christmas At Costco Already?
I dropped by my local Costco to pick up my usual month’s worth of groceries and was shocked to see Halloween items all over the place but even more shocking were all the Christmas items stacked up.  Really Costco Christmas?   If Costco is selling Christmas in August (one month after July) the logically it should…
Back To School – For The Last Time
I completed my first MBA in May and in December I should complete my second MBA and I’ve written about the overall experience here. What really gets my blood boiling however is the need to have to buy two more books, my last two books for my two classes and the cost…$400.  That’s right, two…
I’m Done With United Airlines – Too Horrible of an Airline
I have a legacy Presidential Plus credit card that had some great benefits when offered under Continental but since United stepped in, they basically gutted the benefits and made the card worthless – I’m canceling it as soon as my year ends on it.   I’m also going to use up all the frequent flier miles…