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Comments (35)There are plenty of shopping streets/neighborhoods here that going to a mall is not a necessity. Not all malls are all covered here either, particularly Century City Mall, which has a parking structure, but you walk outside to go from store to store. Third Street Promenade is all outdoors, as is Rodeo Drive. Melrose Avenue is one of my favorite shopping streets, but I also like Sunset in the Silver Lake district. Hollywood and Highland also has a large central area that is open to the sky. There's really no need to cover these areas, since we don't have cold weather, and it's usually not too hot. Lowspark, you are not a weather wimp if you can handle living in Houston in the summer! I lived there when I was going to Rice, but I never managed to stay there in the summer. Rice closed for the summer when I was there - they didn't want to subject the students (and professors and staff) to the heat and humidity. DB had been telling me that Circuit City had been late with all their payments to Sony, and so we were not surprised when we found out that they were going into chapter 11. We bought a new TV recently and ended up getting it at Best Buy because they have a brand (Insignia) that got good reviews and was well under the employee discount price that DB could get from Sony for a similar LCD widescreen TV. I gave our old widescreen TV to the neighbors, for helping us move it out of the house. It was a rear projection TV and was huge!! I'm much happier with the flat screen TV, and our old TV, even though it was HD, was not compatible with Blu-ray. DB had bought a Blu-ray player a couple of weeks ago at a company sale (at Sony) along with an AV amplifier, but we could not get a picture on our old TV with it. Finally, I broke down and bought a new 47" Insignia flat screen LCD TV, and we're much happier with that. We only have a few Blu-ray discs, but we're starting to collect them. The old DVDs are supposed to look better on Blu-ray player, but it's difficult to tell. Lars...See MoreDad declared bankruptcy.
Comments (3)cube1067, Hi again, friend from way back when. I'm sorry about your father's pickle. Not a pleasant situation, for sure. Isn't it difficult to compehend how someone can continue making the same mistakes over and over? And as for learning lessons, there's no rule that we can only learn from our own foolish mistakes: we're fortunate if we can, keeping our eyes and ears open, learn from the mistakes that others make. If we don't boss our money - it'll boss us. Learning how money works is an interesting hobby - that pays well. I've spoken here approvingly previously about Canadian MoneySaver, a plain paper magazine with no ads and few illustrations - mostly text. They asked what subscribers wanted, so sponsored seminars with their resource people and meetings of the subscribers in a number of cities. The monthly meeting here was last night. On Tuesday evening, the editor came to speak in London and offered a number of good ideas about money management and tax savings. Son went with me, daughter wasn't able to. The overhead transparencies that he used are available at www.canadianmoneysaver.ca/tipsandtools. A number of useful concepts relevant for everyone, but some of the material is relevant for Canada only. Have a great weekend, everyone. ole joyful...See MoreQuestion Regarding Bankruptcy
Comments (18)"Fortunately we never used my income for daily living expenses. We are, however, missing our ability to make capital purchases." If I may be so bold, what did you use your income for? Did you use it to establish college funds for the kids and nest eggs for you and your spouse? That's the smart way of doing it, and I know a few people who have managed to do that, even where I am, in Washington, DC. What amazes me is that I own a townhome in one of the more expensive area of the nation, and I manage it on a single salary. I'll admit that my ex-wife and I bought when the market was low, but after she and I split I kept the house. It was EXTREMELY tight at times, and I'm still carrying too much credit card debt that I'm working on erasing. There were some really tight times when I truly thought I was going to have to either get rid of the house or plunge into the bankruptcy option. Then my job situation changed for the MUCH MUCH better, I'm sitting on nearly $150,000 equity in my home (housing prices in my community have gone NUTS in the last 3 years), I'm socking 23% of my paycheck away into a 401K (the maximum I can go) plus more into other funds, and I'm still keeping ahead on all of my other payments. I use my credit cards too much, there's no doubt about that, but I keep it to a dull roar, and over the past two years have erased about $5,000 of $12,000 in credit card debt and moved much of it to cards that have interest rates at or below 10%. Living within one's means isn't difficult for most people. It takes discipline and EDUCATION on the wise use of credit. That's the kicker. The credit card companies that were approving everyone and their 1-year-old brother (the agressive marketing of revolving credit to college and even high school students should be illegal, or heavily curtailed in my opinion) largely have only themselves to blame for their losses no matter how much they whine about it. They weren't educating people about credit use, and it's hurt a LOT of people. One of the things that I did with Navy Federal was write member educational materials on credit use....See MoreDoamin Home Furnishings filing Chapter 11 - bankrupt......
Comments (8)Domain is in pretty big trouble. The company that owns them all but cut them off. They've applied for a speedy auction to occur in a few days. I couldn't cancel my order if I wanted to - it was never placed. The salesperson at Doamin said I'll never receive my piece and I had to deal w/the credit card. I now have to dispute the charge w/my credit card. On the brighter side, I called a company in VA (Gallahan's)who carries the vendor that my piece was supposively orderded from. She did some "research" for me right away knowing my situation. She called the manufacturers plant and spoke w/someone about my situation. She told me to confirm w/the vendor that indeed an order had not been placed or see if in fact it had (even gave me a name & direct phone # to call). I guess the vendor is trying to work w/the customers that are still waiting for their furniture. But the vendor said that they had no pieces like I had ordered in stock - so it leads me to believe that an order was not placed. That was in November. So, Gallahan's said even though that piece I had ordered was specifically made for/caried by Domain she can order it for me. The vendor would even fast track it. She's been very helpful. There are some very nice people in the world!...See Morefaftris
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