Charles E.

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Free 2010 Credit Score Here

Charles E. posted an article on - Mar 11, 2010, 11:06 am
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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Facebook Response: UNR To Shut Down?

Charles E. posted an article on - Mar 3, 2010, 3:04 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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Salvation At Second Hand Stores

Charles E. posted an article on - Mar 2, 2010, 8:54 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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What To Do In the Event That None Of the Clothes Will Fit You at the Second Hand Store

Charles E. posted an article on - Mar 2, 2010, 2:40 am
Okay, this title probably holds the record for longest titled blog entry ever (well not really). I was in a dilemma with my frugality today. Meaning that...I have a extremly hard time finding...
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I'm Convinenced; All Bills Should Be Paid Through Skype

Charles E. posted an article on - Feb 20, 2010, 7:20 am
This proabably isn't major savings, but from what  I noticed is that everyone is switching over to longer and longer call centers. However, there is a savior and it goes by the name of Skype....
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To my suprise...

Charles E. posted an article on - Feb 19, 2010, 1:33 am
I actually owed the IRS. A whole $4, actually. An epic feat for someone who happens to be in the 10% bracket or so I thought. Turns out I am in the 15% bracket with only the standard deduction (my...
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An Example of Non-spam

Charles E. posted an article on - Feb 12, 2010, 4:06 am
Another day here at CB. Just going to post this quick response because I want people to know the difference between what I call spam and what I call legit. Ok this post here arrived to me...
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SPAM this post!

Charles E. posted an article on - Feb 10, 2010, 11:51 pm
  I would like more real human comments. Seriously, I actually read them. I read the spam ones too for just a laugh at how gullible the spamee thinks I am. No, I will not put up any money...
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What am I going to do with my bonus/tax refund?

Charles E. posted an article on - Feb 10, 2010, 1:13 am
This is just a response post. First off, I find it funny that people always ask a bunch of questions about what am I going to do with a refund or any type of money I happen to earn or recieve....
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Chuckie's Blurbs Vlog Ep. 2: Sushi Pier #2

Charles E. posted an article on - Feb 3, 2010, 2:22 am
This is a video for the review Sushi Pier #2. I know that I did one in the past, but I do not think I really did the place justice by words alone. So, I made these videos. Enjoy the atmosphere and...
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The Return Policy of 90 Days at Sam's Club Will Officially Be Enforced

Charles E. posted an article on - Feb 1, 2010, 3:14 am
To all of you that think that the LCDs are still "grand fathered in" I am just doing this response to let everyone know  that Sam's Club's old it is not. ALL electronic devises that are n...
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Apple Comes Out With Ipad

Charles E. posted an article on - Jan 29, 2010, 4:35 am
And now another company that tosses their hat in the e-reader wars. Apple already has tremendous popularity due to their Iphone and IPod, but  now they will take on the e-ready and net book....
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Beware of Aim Trust

Charles E. posted an article on - Jan 28, 2010, 5:17 am
This is one of the messages I received from another blogger. I was skeptical as usual and never take anything based on just face value. Although theoretically you could make that kind of money...
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A Frugal Snack: Super Easy Puppy Chow

Charles E. posted an article on - Jan 27, 2010, 12:44 am
This is just a fun side thing to try if you want to save money. This is on the Hiroko Channel at YT. If you like cooking and want to cook and affordable snack, then try "Super Puppy Chow". The...
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City of Reno is Short Paying for Aces Baseball Contract

Charles E. posted an article on - Jan 27, 2010, 12:11 am
This just a response to a Sparks Tribune post. Sparks is a neighboring city that is near Reno. I used to work for the City and let me tell you, the people elected to manage their...
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Wal-Mart lays off 11,200 Sam's Club Employees

Charles E. posted an article on - Jan 26, 2010, 2:02 am
I only talk about Wal-mart's layoff for two reasons: 1) there is a lot of people complaining about how "unjust" they are and 2) there is this inherent "entitlement mentality". ...
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Chuckie's Blurbs Vlog Ep.1

Charles E. posted an article on - Jan 24, 2010, 3:14 am
You know how I promised videos for CB last year? I am following up on that promise. There will be more. There will be more. This video is focusing on frugality. I go a little bit into languages, but I...
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Response: Overcoming Fear

Charles E. posted an article on - Jan 18, 2010, 3:31 am
There are many things that happen in life that we have a variance of control over and then there are these situations in which we have little to no control over. I know it is a tough cruel world out t...
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Quick Response: Kiplinger 2010 Stock Reprt Special

Charles E. posted an article on - Dec 31, 2009, 8:50 pm
I would like to say this tidbit of stock info is only $4 to get the opinion and analysis of several different pros in the stock game. It actually gave me some new concepts when it came to consider the...
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Happy Holidays

Charles E. posted an article on - Dec 24, 2009, 2:04 am
Happy Holidays from the staff at Chuckiesblurbs! I would like to say that this year has been kind to Chuckie and it seems next year will be as well. I would like to give an end of the year thanks to t...
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Beating the Market 2009

Charles E. posted an article on - Dec 18, 2009, 1:34 am
Overall I did pretty good. I have came out of the market 1,000 give or take than I put into it. I cashed out the WMT a little late, but just lost a little. For those of you that got the AMZN when I su...
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2010 New Year's Resolution

Charles E. posted an article on - Dec 12, 2009, 12:30 am
Glad to be back in the blogosphere again with another blurb for another New Year. Last year I made two resolutions: I wanted to reach over 100 books read and I wanted to save $10,000. Well I did both ...
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Facebook Response: Japanese Kanji Are Difficult to Memorize

Charles E. posted an article on - Dec 11, 2009, 12:45 am
This is a response to a friend I have on Facebook. I am just going to summarize the statement. He basically said at one point he memorized 600+ Kanji and have forgotten them. There are some key point...
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Reflections on the JLPT (日本語能力試験)

Charles E. posted an article on - Dec 10, 2009, 12:28 am
Long time no blog. I just wanted to address some questions that was asked about the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test). I understand that a lot of my viewers are interested in learning a foreig...
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Black Friday Specials for 2009

Charles E. posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 4:05 pm
Ok I have not let you down people! As promised I deliver the goods. So what is Sam's Clubs Black Friday list? Is is worth waking up at 4am this year? Well here's the main items Garmin GPS sy...
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B-Day

Charles E. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 11:07 pm
I just wanted to post something of interest to the people following this for financial reasons, I am getting questions on where I am as far as my 10 grand goal goes. Well I have almost reached it in m...
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Why Add Food to Finance and Frugality?

Charles E. posted an article on - Oct 18, 2009, 1:23 am
This topic for me is a little bit interesting for me to write about. When some of my friends visit the site, they are like "Why do you add food"? Well I add "food" for many reasons. Like I have mentio...
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Playing Video or App.Games Free

Charles E. posted an article on - Oct 11, 2009, 4:06 am
I am not going to be on my Ivory tower and say I do not like video games. I might not play them as much as I used to play them, but it is perhaps one of the things that got me interested in electronic...
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Stocks Are Down But Should You Invest?

Charles E. posted an article on - Oct 6, 2009, 11:30 pm
I am noticing that compared to last year, this years stocks are down. Should you be doing a "bank run" ? If you ask the banking sector of course you will get a "no", they do not want that. "But what ...
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Update On Studies Or How to Learn a Language on a Shoestring Budget

Charles E. posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 2:14 am
Hello everyone. Long time no post. I have a lot of new followers coming in from Blogged and I would like to extend a warm welcome out to them. I have been really studying Japanese hard so I can pass ...
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I write about frugality and personal finance. The mindset is puesdo militant, but probable. I have saved thousands of dollars and have gotten out of debt. And I wish to help other people too.

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