Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Jan 19, 2012, 6:46 am
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Jan 2, 2012, 5:59 pm
This is just lost footage. I had an idea to totally just do vlog episodes showing people who to save money, but I later scrapped the idea because of the amount of time it would have taken between...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Dec 31, 2011, 12:06 am
I just want to make a quick response to this article.  I was trying to warm up before I start studying Korean today and happened to come across this article on Facebook. There was this Time...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Oct 29, 2011, 7:30 pm
I have been getting into some pretty interesting debates on the whole student loan and Wall Street fiasco. And because I have quite a bit of money, I am suddenly the "know all see all" to the...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Oct 22, 2011, 5:16 pm
Hey everybody. This is Charles once again getting it in. I was satisfying another Facebook addiction phase when I came upon this article at http://cracked.com . While I am a fan of Cracked, Daniel O'...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Oct 3, 2011, 1:22 pm
I just though I create a quick post. I haven't found any frugality hacks as of late...until now! I manged to come across an ad for Cthulu Saves The World in my Facebook. I was just playing Tetris...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Sep 23, 2011, 6:47 am
Hello. thought I'd make a quick post about dental vacations. It seems to be the in thing these days. I came to Korea to fix my teeth and earn some money. Why did I come to Korea for Dental Work? Well...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Jun 1, 2011, 11:15 pm
This is something I found while I was on my LinkedIn profile. I have to say being able to actually apply for jobs through LinkedIn makes total sense; considering that it is a website for hooking...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - May 13, 2011, 4:32 pm
I just wanted to post this as a way of showing thanks for all the support you guys have given chuckiesblurbs. I know it isn't that many hits when someone puts this blog's timeline under a...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 30, 2011, 7:04 am
I've been doing my grind for a minute, so I just wanted to take a breather and post something about Nightrunner's new website. It isn't "new" new, but he has recently made the site subdomain free...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 20, 2011, 11:10 am
I think everyone has heard this phrase before. But, what do people mean when they say time is money? I  look at time this way: we were given a certain amount of credit on this, but we...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 11, 2011, 10:34 am
In order to help raise awareness of the situation in Japan, I have decided a few months ago to donate to Japan. I am a man of my word and CB has personally donated 16,000 JPY towards the relief...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Mar 31, 2011, 8:42 pm
There was a request from someone to put a link to my Twitter URL on this website. Yes, I have a Twitter URL. It will funnel YouTube comments as well as comments from this site. Also my new blog...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Mar 25, 2011, 2:35 pm
Here I am, up at 3:18am getting my blog on like I'm in a marathon. It is 3:18 in Korea and it is my Friday. Not really sure why I am doing laundry at this time, but maybe its just because I...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Dec 11, 2010, 7:06 pm
I have come to the conclusion that this site is finished as far as I want to reach with it. I talked about different investments and strategies to save money. I wanted to throw food reviews into the...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Oct 13, 2010, 8:33 pm
Okay, I'm going to talk about one of the things I would like to take advantage of. The reason why I don't is because I actually work for Sam's Club and I cannot. Here is a food hack for all to enjoy...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Sep 24, 2010, 3:50 am
This is just a response to reallybadcredit on Twitter. The tweet was actually aimed at someone else, but I felt rather compelled to respond to this statement. Bad credit should not be illegal, per...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Sep 21, 2010, 3:12 am
Another day another post. Another game another payment...? Nope not me. People always wonder what games I play if I have the urge to play one. I often ponder this myself. I'll give you a hint: most...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Sep 5, 2010, 5:15 pm
A cheap haircutting place moved next door to me! Now I do not have to hike 2 miles to find an affordable haircutting salon. For those of you that are in Reno, the address is: Time 2 Cut 206...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Aug 25, 2010, 7:17 pm
I just wanted to make this quick second post to address language programs for the PC. Learning a second language has been made a lot simplier than in my days when I first started to learn Japanese....
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Aug 25, 2010, 6:48 pm
Okay this is just a quick thought on this whole "recession". I wonder how many people are actually looking at today's home prices. It might hit some people (who bought their homes before the...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Aug 19, 2010, 6:38 am
Another year of test taking is coming up for all the JLPT test takers. And lo and behold there is a new N3 in the midst that is supposed to be harder than the level 3 I took last year. I...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Aug 14, 2010, 9:24 am
Do not bother spamming my blog with your incessive comments on breast creams, Japanese Horse Races and pyramid schemes. I actually review every comment and post the non-spam ones. Your chances of...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - May 20, 2010, 1:33 am
I just got off work and finished one of the slowest days in the store's history. (well maybe not  the slowest) When I came home, I discovered a letter from Merrill Lynch investment. At fist I...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - May 12, 2010, 6:54 am
There is this little gem on the internet that will help you either a) make you some money or b) give you a good deal on items fround througout your city. I have to thank Nightrunner for...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - May 10, 2010, 2:04 am
Well now that Greece went down in flames there is one thing any logical value investor would try to do. Find opportunities to exploit the down economy. I would keep an eye on the stock market...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - May 9, 2010, 7:28 am
I love how everyone is getting scared the Greece's economy has gone belly up. It has dropped the overall value of stock, but remember it is only temporary. You can actually make quite a bit if you...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - May 5, 2010, 2:51 am
A few days a go I talked about "penny stock" investing; now I am going to talk about my main strategy: Buy and Hold. First I would like to explain the difference between "Day Trading" and "Buy and...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - May 2, 2010, 5:32 pm
There is a lot of people making money in dismal times. I am definately making money and a lot of my friends are. Now there is something that comes to my attention when dealing with trading...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - May 1, 2010, 2:27 am
When you get your frugality down, you will have the edge on the competition. So are you a day trader who plays the market like the crap tables, going all in on a penny stock, the value investor...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 30, 2010, 1:53 am
People wish to know the best way to save money. I get asked this all the time: "How do you save so much money working for Sam's Club?" I reply simply, "It's the little things I do." Trust me,...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 27, 2010, 4:38 am
To shop for success, one has to think about what I mean when I say this. Success to me is going to be different from success to you. I would like to get deeper into investments, so I tend to be...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 26, 2010, 2:59 am
For people that are in the business of making money, this term is all too familiar. For those that work the 9-5, this might be considered a highly speculative move, but rewarding one. "Sweat Equity"...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 25, 2010, 3:31 pm
Picture this scenario: you have been working at XYZ Corps for 15 years. You have been putting in diligent effort and have even managed to get elected for some company awards like employee...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 24, 2010, 8:29 am
Tax season is over and those of you that got their IRS refunds at the last minute probably have holes burning in their pockets from the stimulus plans out there. There definately is a lot of good...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 20, 2010, 11:48 pm
Wow! Sounds like a easy thing to do right? If it was so easy I would not be writing this blog, now would I? Well maybe I still would to address some other point, but the most interesting thing...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 20, 2010, 3:39 am
I do not how many people do this, but overall job hopping damages your credit score. Your FICO scorecard is ruined if you hop from job to job. Why do I say this? I know from other people who have...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 19, 2010, 4:54 am
People are always wondering how to become more frugal. But people think it is easy to suddenly cut back to a lifestyle of living below the margins. No, it is not easy in some cases. Especially when...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 18, 2010, 2:27 am
This year's is turing out great for me. I think I have found my calling as a side job entrepreneur. If I ever decide to not buy anything for a week one day, I would totally do one thing: work for...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 16, 2010, 3:28 am
You know how I mentioned more on the DRIPs later? Well that "later" is today. DRIPs can be a very economic way of investing in stocks. This is for the average guy that does not have Buffett like...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 15, 2010, 1:36 am
1. Walk instead of drive. 2. Employ the $10/day plan for food when going out for work. 3. Select only 1 luxury a month, big ticket luxuries have to span over a couple of months. 4. Open up an...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Apr 3, 2010, 2:03 am
I would like to say I'm sorry for the  last post. There was one detail that did not occur to me until later at work. You would have to be a lease-to-own buyer for this to work. Or an...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Mar 26, 2010, 3:11 am
I came to the conclusion that once you save up a certain amount of money, it is foolish to continue to pay rent. I feel that if one wanted to amass a fortune, the next step has to be taken....
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Mar 16, 2010, 6:57 am
Now when people look at my phone at work, they do not see a person with a lot of money at his disposal. What they see is the phone and its overall "cheapness". Yes, I only pay up to $30 dollars for a...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Mar 11, 2010, 12:06 pm
Hello! Long time not blog! Actually I was in San Francisco at a job interview. But I just got back into Reno about two days ago. While browsing the web today I happen to come across this website...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Mar 11, 2010, 12:06 pm
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Mar 3, 2010, 4:04 am
Well if anyone looked at the Reno rag today, they would have found a rather interesting article about University of Nevada, Reno shutting down their degree programs. This is why I do not totally rely...
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Mar 3, 2010, 4:04 am
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Mar 2, 2010, 9:54 pm
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Charles E. posted an article on Food, Finance, Frugality - Mar 2, 2010, 9:54 pm
Been pretty busy as of late, but I will be posting a little more once I land a job in Japan. Today I went to Salvation Army to try to find some clothes  for my trip. I suprisingly dropped...
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