I don’t want to say that money is tight, but wow, the expenses and bills just keep racking up! I have budgeted and scrimped and I can’t seem to save a dime.
Last week I even cut some coupons out of the newspaper and took them to the grocery store. I saved about $12 on the groceries that would have cost $62, and it only took about 10 minutes to sort through the coupons and cut them out. I might be onto to something with that.
Could be an interesting year for people who like to invest in IPOs or intial public offerings as it seems Groupon, Twitter and Facebook are all trying to raise capitol to go public. Even saw a story the other day about the guy who owns adult friend finder dot com and he says he started a venture capitol firm to do strictly non adult entertainment and he has a standing offer to buy Playboy which from what I hear now he fallen through. I believe tech IPOs are the best to invest in for people looking to make a huge profit from stocks rising quickly.
There are a few IPOs i wish i got in on back in the day like Google Yahoo and Microsoft just to nae a few but more recently I would have loved to got some VISA and MC stocks. Even still if none of the above go public this year whenever they do it will be worth getting in when the stocks first hit the market.
Veterans Day is one of the more special holidays to me. I have had several members of my family serve in the military and to show support to them is a very important act to me and for that matter all the members of my family. We went to the Veterans Day Parade in Downtown Nashville this morning and to explain to my children the importance of the military was very important to me, and I hope the understand and do not listen to the idiots who think that we do not need a strong military presence. Bless the veterans and the Nation that they have defended to make the rest of us free.
This Friday the NHL season starts for our Nashville Predators, and I for one can not wait for the ice to be played on for real. The preseason is over the roster is set and it is time for the puck to drop. I have decided not to renew my season tickets this year. We will go to a few games, follow the rest on TV and the radio and wish the team the best for this year. I still consider myself a Predators fan and will support the team the best way I can with the economy in the toilet like it is, I hope that next year we will be able to get our season tickets back and be there every night like the last few years.
The long lines at the gas stations have begun to ease up a bit, some of the lines over the weekend had waits of over 2 hours. I am not a real fan of waiting for anything let alone gasoline in a vehicle with no air conditioning. Now the AAA is saying that only 30% of the stations here do not have gasoline and the lines are very small compared to the line from the weekend. It looks like everything may be back to normal here by the start of the weekend. I remember the gas rationing that we had in 1973 in Oklahoma only one station in our little town and almost no gasoline I really hope we never get to that level again although it seemed like we were headed that way the last few eeks here in Nashville. With no gasoline at a lot of gas stations and long lines at the ones who did have gasoline.