windfall

Creating an artificial windfall generator

Posted 48 weeks 4 days ago by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance

Everybody enjoys getting a windfall. One of the attractions of the lottery (besides the infinitesimal chance that you might win a life-changingly huge amount) is that the smaller winning tickets produce little, irregularly spaced windfalls. In fact, some lotteries are deliberately set up to work like this.

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It's all your money

Posted 49 weeks 1 day ago by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance, Budgeting

Guitar, camera, game console, iPod, CDs, Krishna sculpture

Sometimes you get a windfall--a bonus, an award or reward, a gift, a long-forgotten loan unexpectedly repaid. When that happens to you, do you use the money to make a special purchase? Let me suggest an alternate way of thinking about it: It's all your money.

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