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Bit of fun turns into $10,000

Posted November 25, 2008 - 13:56 by Paul Michael

Life Hacks

money money money, must be funny

In my recent post about eBay Motors, I recounted the story of a seemingly worthless car that sold for over $226,000. But this next story is bizarre. What turned out as a sarcastic but funny prank ended up being worth $10,000.

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Do you have what you want… and do you want what you have?

Posted June 7, 2007 - 00:30 by Ed O'Reilly

Lifestyle

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Sometimes, being frugal means not just saving money; sometimes it means not spending any at all. There’s been a growing preoccupation with working more to earn more--to buy more; yet, it never seems enough. A cursory glance at a landscape of malls, fast food chains and airplane hangar-sized clubs for buying sugary snacks in a container the size of an oil drum implies that this condition of over-consumption is reaching epidemic proportions.

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