Quick Shots for 08/18/2017
My wife’s father used to claim that stores would pay Deborah to shop there. What he was referring to was the uncanny ability she had of buying merchandise for pennies on the dollar due to sales, coupons or other money saving tactics. I’ll admit, while Deborah doesn’t exactly get paid to shop (though one time she did receive more for a return than she paid, even after pointing that fact out to the clerk), Deborah does have a knack for getting the best deals when shopping.
She takes pride in this talent and is always looking for the best price. Case in point, according to the CVS app on her phone, she has been… Read more...
Pay for a college education. Read a self-help book. Find a mentor. There are many ways that we look to others in an attempt to improve ourselves. However, I believe that sometimes we are our own best teachers. No, I’m not saying we have some innate ability to know how to do something without any instructions. Instead, we tend to be experts at screwing up really badly, and if we take the time to examine what we did wrong, we can learn not to repeat those mistakes in the future. One of those key moments for me was way back when I was attending elementary school, and it’s a lesson I never forgot.
In 5th and 6th grade…