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Canadian Vacation Property luxury cottage 72 acres

Canadian Vacation Property luxury cottage 72 acres

US $3,152,787.30

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Mexico Beach Rental Vacation Condo San Felipe

Mexico Beach Rental Vacation Condo San Felipe

US $400,000.00

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Going on Vacation… Maybe.

I’m heading on an extended vacation in Sydney, Australia and Phuket, Thailand for a few weeks… or at least that’s the plan. It appears that I need Hurricane Gustav to cooperate a little. My wife, being in the military is on notice that she may be necessary for the relief work. I [...]

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Weekend Links - Preparing for Australia/Thailand Edition

My wife and I will be heading to Australia and Thailand in less than a month. Instead of looking forward to the vacation is excitement, I’ve found myself looking forward with worry. A flight across the United States is almost more than I can stand. I’m not sure how I’ll do on [...]

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Military: Save Money With (Almost) Free Vacations

My wife is active duty military - and with that comes a number of perks. One of those great military benefits is a significant savings on vacations via flights, hotels, and car rentals. Eighteen months ago we went to Hawaii at a cost of half what others would expect to pay. On Saturday, I found out how it would have been even cheaper if I did a little more planning. Today, I’d like to share some of the ways to save money with nearly free vacations - but remember, you may need to be in the [...]

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Lazy Man on Location: San Diego

I decided to take the show on the road to San Diego for the week. I’ve heard San Diego is Spanish for a whale’s… well let’s say that it doesn’t sound right ;-). I’ve never been here and I’m sure the week will fly by. It’s been great fun thus far - almost too much fun.
I’ll be passing on some tips for saving money in San Diego. Unfortunately, I think they will be geared to those who have military connections.
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Lack of Vacation

In my recent post, Raising Your Hourly Wage, I discussed how you should use as much of your paid time off as possible to maximize your effective hourly pay. Looking into vacation in greater depth, I’ve found that workers in the United States are much worse off in that area than in many other developed [...]

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Raising Your Hourly Wage

Despite the apparently higher pay that comes with being a salaried employee, all of the extra time put into the job can make the per-hour wage quite low. Taking advantage of all of the tools at your disposal can help to raise your effective hourly wage.
Determining your hourly wage as a salaried employee is [...]

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Save Money in Aruba

[Note: While this article is focused Aruba, there’s a lot of universal tips that can be used on many vacations.]
Recently, I spent a week in heavenly bliss in Aruba. If pressed I’d say it’s my favorite place on earth. There’s perfect weather, perfect dining, and relatively affordable luxury accommodations (more on those later). [...]

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I’m Back and Some Sundry Travel Thoughts

I’d like to thank my readers for sticking with me through two weeks of guest posts while I was away. From the comments, it seems like the guest posts went well. I want to thank those writers again and I only hope that I can keep up the quality of those posts.
Yesterday, we [...]

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Vacation Review: Hearst Castle Edition

I mentioned on Saturday that I was going away on a mini-moon to the Hearst Castle. I’m back and I thought I’d share the details on how we spent money and how we saved money. If you are curious for a quick preview, we did more spending that saving - but you [...]

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Three questions to Jeff Crowe, General Partner at Norwest Venture Partner

Prior to Norwest, Jeff served as President, COO and board member of DoveBid, Inc., a privately held business auction firm, which expanded during his tenure via internal growth and acquisition from a $10M revenue run rate to a $120M revenue run rate with 400 employees. From 1990 to 1999, Jeff was co-founder, President, CEO and [...]

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Statistics: Facebook and Lending Club users are smart borrowers

We are closing our 8th week on Facebook since the May 24th launch and continue to gather valuable user feedback and data. We are in process of setting up our site to make most of the data available in identifiable format, directly from the secure site.
In the meantime, we thought we would share a [...]

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