Camera Inflation

Jan

26th

2008

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The results of an interesting poll were published over at digital-photography-school.com this week. It’s an interesting website dedicated to teaching amateurs like me how to use a digital camera. The authors polled readers on how much they spent on their LAST digital camera. The most popular answer was in the $1k-$2k range.

But, while implementing my Freedom Filer system today, I ran across a receipt from 1998 where I bought my FIRST digital camera. It was/is a Sony Mavica FD81. As I recall, it was the first camera that had an external storage medium…namely, a floppy disk drive. Yep, that’s right, it held a whopping 1.4 megabytes of digital imagery. I was proud of it at the time.

The receipt says I paid $865.99 for the camera. Today, you can buy a nice DSLR camera and a 4 gigabytes worth of SD memory for that much. Amazing how technology changes in just 10 years….

I still have the camera. It’s been sitting in a file cabinet for a long time now. It’s rather ironic that I know exactly where to find it, but finding a floppy disk would be next to impossible in my house.

Brian Regan on UPS

Jan

26th

2008

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A friend sent me this clip a few days ago…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89frRi8GgGA

I just find it funny because I’m familiar with the package shipping industry, and Brian’s assessment is right on target.

Freedom Filer

Jan

24th

2008

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I’m a big fan of products that make your life easier. I also don’t mind spending money on these types of things, as time is the most valuable asset you have…you can’t buy more of it, and you don’t know exactly how much you have left. So, anything that will save me time I’m going to look at….

When it comes to my process for paying bills, I have a small desk organizer that I arrange my bills in…one slot for short term, and one slot for long term. I typically go through all of the short term bills twice a month, and the long term stuff once a month…basically comparing them to my Quicken scheduled transactions to make sure I don’t miss a payment.

But, after I pay the bill, it goes in a stack “to be filed”. This stack is usually much larger than my “to be paid” stack because I HATE FILING. And, I’m the type of person who errs on the side of caution and keeps a lot of stuff. Usually once a year I’ll go through and purge my files of old utility bills, paychecks, credit card statements, etc. But, that’s usually done over the Christmas break (in preparation for the new year), but who wants to waste their vacation time filing???

Debt Snowflakes

Jan

24th

2008

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One of my favorite blogs to read is Get Rich Slowly. J.D. writes about common money issues that are all geared to personal finance and growing your wealth.

His latest post is in regards to Debt Snowflakes. It’s an unusual and new approach (at least to me) to eliminating debt. But, it makes sense and is hard to argue with.

Take a gander at it here.