I gave my co-worker, Liz, some advice today. I said, “Liz, you need to take that money you have out of that annuity (ummm?) and put it in a self directed brokerage account so you can invest in some index based stock mutual funds and ETFs.” (or something like that). Then I showed her how much money I was making doing just that.

Liz asked me where I learned about investing and money…ha ha you have to click!

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Tags: travel, RV, beach, holiday

Yayoi and I decided to take the RV out to the beach on Christmas eve. This was a last minute idea, so we had to get to the RV park (Dockweiler State Beach) as soon as we could because it was first come first serve. Since the park is only about 10 miles from our house, I drove the RV and Yayoi followed in the car. We got a spot, parked the RV, and then took off for the rest of the day to shop and eat. We make it back to the beach in time to watch the sun go down over the ocean (ahhh, that was nice).

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So, now I feel like a total Noob!!!

I love wordpress, but the the web post tool is very limited (!). So, I figured out that you can get a blog client (I am posting this with BLOGDESK). and posting is a lost less wonky.

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We are shopping @ the cabazon outlet mall. No wifi, so i am using my cell to text this in. I need a better cell, cuz this is too much work!

I am writing this post from my bed in the 7 Springs Inn and Suites room right next to the Jacuzzi. This trip is part of our holiday present to each other. Yayoi and I don’t exchange gifts, but we do spend money on trips like this. This is a pretty nice hotel and the attraction for us is the in the in room Jacuzzi. I get to use the sauna at the gym nearly every day, but it seems like I don’t get a good soak as often as I would like…hmm, I should do something about that!

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I have an admission. I am the “spender” in my family. Before I married my AWESOME wife Yayoi, I had wracked up well over $10k of credit card debt. Wait a second, let me write that again and put all the zeros behind to get the message through: OVER $10,000!! And what were the life changing purchases that required me to go so far into debt? Hmm, well it’s been about 14 years, but here is a short list of what I remember buying with my credit card:

Part of the Festival of Frugality #106

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More From Yooper

• Step 0.5: Shift your Attitude Towards Money: Where do you seek Happiness?
• Step 1: Live Below your Means: Have money left over after every pay check
• Step 2: Pay off your Credit Cards

Meditation is very important to me. I meditate one way or another practically everyday. To me, meditation is a very easy because I have been praticing since 2004. The good news is you can learn how to mediatate rather quickly and the more you practice, the easier it gets.

(Part of) Meditation, Yoga & Spiritual Growth Carnival- Edition #12

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Today I took some very fun ACTIONS:

• Paid about $512 to start YooperSmith.com, LLC.
• Signed up for Google AdSense
• Added 1 ad unit to my Home page
• Added a google search to my Home page.

I did most of these things WHILE watching the packer game, wearing shorts and slippers.

Oh yeah, I want my webpage to provide value to my readers, and in turn for FREE valuable content, my intent is to get PAID with google AdSense and other passive income streams.

THANKS! to Liz T from work. All she said was, “Update your web page, it’s cool”. So, I thought, um ok. Inspiration comes from many places, I guess you just have to listen for it.

Today was a lazy day at home. So here is what I did:

1. Put YooperSmith.com on Google. (It was not on there before.)
2. Upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. (I had never done that before.)
3. Had to find a new theme (old theme no longer worked after upgrade.)
4. Backed up the “entire site” and the database.
5. Learned that I can backup my php database via my webhost (so I did that too.)
6. Loaded some new plugins.
7. Found my RSS feed links and got those to work again.
8. Recycled all the bottles/cans in the garage.
9. Replaced an old toilet flapper.
10. Went out to dinner at a nice Japanese restaurant with Yayoi.

It is amazing what you can get done on a lazy day…if you turn off the TV.