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Memo: Our New Employee Juanita Gonzalez

Here’s another installment in my “Help My Kid Sis Jazz Up Company Memos” series. (NOTE: Names have been changed to protect the innocent/accused/insert-your-favorite-adjective-here.)

DATE: SEPTEMBER 22, 2006 MEMORANDUM TO: ALL EMPLOYEES FROM: THE CFO SUBJECT: JUANITA GONZALEZ

Señores y Señoras:

Please join us in giving a warm bienvenida to Juanita who joined us just two [...]

October 8th, 2006 | Category: Misc. Humor, Non-Finance | 200 comments

Filing Personal Receipts

What do you do with all your receipts, monthly bills, and bank statements? Do they end up strewn from here to breakfast until you realize that you need to return something you’ve bought? That was how things worked at our house until I started managing the family finances more actively. Now, we have a process, [...]

October 7th, 2006 | Category: Finance, Investing, Etc., Organization, Personal Finance | 25 comments

Horizontal Surfaces Exposed As A Threat To Organization

There is likely nothing in your living space that represents more of a threat to your cleanliness and organization than open horizontal surfaces. They are extremely useful but unfortunately constitute a temptation that most of us have yet to overcome.

What open horizontal surfaces (OHS) do you have in your living space? Any of these?

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October 6th, 2006 | Category: Non-Finance, Organization | 4 comments

Low-Volume Flush Toilets and Stingy Paper Towel Dispensers – Part I

Modern efficiency and conservation are wonderful things . . . except when they aren’t. Efficiently conserving, that is.

I’m not a wasteful person. I save all my old twist ties so I can reuse them. We store our emergency water supply in empty 2-liter bottles. Our kids draw their pictures on the backs of sheets [...]

October 5th, 2006 | Category: Finance, Investing, Etc., Ramblings | 4 comments

More On Trackbacks

Track backs at www.thoughtfulconsideration.com have remained a little bit of a mystery to me, so I was very pleased to come across this explanation which had the effect of shedding some additional light on the subject:

http://www.conservativecat.com/mt/archives/2005/03/about_trackback.html

Frankly, the concept is still a little hazy to me at this point. When cross-referencing related posts on [...]

October 4th, 2006 | Category: Non-Finance, The Net | Comments are closed
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