Month: August 2007

Neither! Continue reading “Paper or Plastic?”

Some of these ideas will save you time and money:

MSN Article

This is an entry from the fastcompany blog that I found interesting:

It’s not easy being green. Anybody who’s ever really tried to minimize his or her carbon footprint, knows that even when you’re committed to recycling and responsible purchasing, you can be foiled by forces outside your control. You buy a new set of tiny earbuds, and they come encased in a mound of nasty plastic and Styrofoam. You order lunch at the Cheesecake Factory and get a portion big enough for three (the upside: I now feel virtuous instead of cheap for my unrepentant doggie bag habit, and my predilection for tap over bottled water). You buy something online, only to trigger a torrent of unwanted catalogs. Continue reading “Talking Trash”

This was sent to me by my dad, so I thought I would pass on the words of wisdom.

Sound advice on retirement planning.

If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.

With WorldCom you would have had less than $5.00 left.

If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Line stock, you would have $49.00 left.

But if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, You would have had $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

It’s called the 401-Keg Plan.