Left Over Turkeys

The bottom line, "Don't Be One."

Every year, with the close of Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, you know the holiday season is in full swing with the Santa Clause riding the last and final float. A great marketing plan by the organizers to remind folks to start shopping. However, it is also a mental 'trigger' for some to acceptably 'loose their minds' financially among other ways.

Christmas, a holiday 'created' in recognition of Christ's birth and celebrated as such for centuries, today is so commercialized, its meaning/purpose often lost in GETTING and GIVING. That said, given no one 'really' knows when he was born, why not make everyday Christmas. Promise yourself to keep your head, avoid depression, give in line with your beliefs, and...oh yeah, get rid of the left over turkey before that celebration comes.

Trouble OR Opportunity Coming?

"MONEY is the route of all evil", "MONEY makes the world go around." "MONEY, got to have it, I really need it"-[the O'Jays], or my favorite, 'do what you love, the MONEY will follow.'

Don't know what YOUR views are on money but if you don't have one, however your living your life today will probably dictate what you do with & how you think about it tomorrow.

With all the rumors of recession, the devaluation of the dollar, global competition, and everything else banging your greenbacks around, for your OWN GOOD get an idea of what you should do when 'THE CLIP(money) hits the fan.'

Leave the "fat" Alone

Woah! What a day. All that I've said is coming to pass. Solar technology has increased by 300%, real estate is in the toilet, water no longer an escoteric or abstract as an investment. Change is rough but, "its a coming."

As we ponder our next steps with our discretionary funds, that is if we've still got 'em, we understand that we've got to cut back on things that aren't essential and get rid of whats not necessary. In other words, "we've got to trim the fat."

Big suv's were cool back in '99, but in late '07, outside of hauling folks or equipment, if every seat doesn't pay like a stuffed ATA or Airtran flight to CA, its just pure overkill.