The Friday Financial and Health Follies (FFHF) summarize the important (or just fun) financial and health issues of the week.
- Share the humor of the funny
- Make fun of the stupid.
- Highlight and explain new financial and health news-so you don’t miss it!
Friday Financial Follies
The Las Vegas ‘Heartattack Cafe’ has a new mascot.
Weight over 350 pounds? Free Food! Meat lover went all in with his triple bypass burger and is recuperating in a local hospital. Patrons thought it was a marketing heart attack- took pics and posted to social media…Can you say viral heart attack?
1001 Duct Tape Uses?
Naked and duct taped role play? Keep it at the house next time. Nine patrol cars ‘tied up’ for hours searching for supposed duct taped and naked victim as seen by bystanders. All just a Valentine’s Day duct tape date. (say that quickly three times)
Multi-colored duct tape, use with care!
Foreclosure Rate Jumping
What do you get when the banks settle their foreclosure lawsuit with the feds? A huge jump in the foreclosure rate! The sooner these homes clear the market, the sooner we’ll reach a bottom in the real estate market.
Vaccines Voluntary?
Mandatory Vaccine laws are under assault. What happens when we have a mumps epidemic again, with thousands killed each year?
Smoking safer?
Niceville, FL man lost some teeth and part of his tongue when a bottle rocket, also known as an electric cigarette, exploded in his mouth. Hard to think he’ll look at them the same again. Maybe try bubble gum?
Personal finance and other good reads:
Jeff at Sustainable Life Blog’s eyes are opened about bartering. I don’t think I want to offer a PAP smear exchange, but I’m sure I can come up with something else…
A Breaking Bad personal finance teachable moment. Can you say that with a straight face? American Debt Project manages that pretty well and pretty funny too!
Suba @ Wealth Informatics wonders if Money Can Buy Love? The answer is yes, but is that good or bad thing?
Shaun interviews Elle at Smart Family Finance about the changes children bring to your finances. Those bundles cost a bundle now!
Punch Debt, Jesse, and some other cool dudes who will go nameless, ’cause I don’t know who they are, came up with this manly pinterest-like site, laden with testosterone. Cool stuff, go check it out!
High deductibles or higher premiums, which is the right way to go on your health insurance? The ole chicken or egg discussion covered well at Sweating the Big Stuff.
Average Joe’s Budget Baby Bad Boy, for your reading and dissecting pleasure. It will make sense cents to all but the LenPenzo spreadsheet geeks among us, and they will run from it like Lady Gaga runs from conservative frockery.
Carnivals and Giveaways!
Carnival of Financial Planning
The Life and Business Coach Carnival
Invest It Wisely linked to my Valentine’s Day post.
Yakezie Carnival at 101 Centavos
Giveaways:
Sunil at The Extra Money Blog is giving away iPads, and money and a trip. Cool stuff!
Superfrugallete is giving away $50 gift card!
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I love duct tape fun. The damn foreclosure rate is killing us.
Those are some excellent posts you list by the way. Thanks.
I live in fear of the anti-vaccine folks. We think healthcare is bad now, wait until all the babies start getting whooping cough again, and children’s wards are full of kids with the measles. We developed a chicken pox vaccine because it killed 10 kids (or less) a year, think about what a new measles outbreak could do.
Erin, I agree that we are not far away from a new outbreak of several deadly childhood diseases due to vaccine percentages dropping. There will be a lot more crying moms then.
I have to disagree on the vaccine issue…Erin, when it is YOUR child who is killed by the vaccine, then it gives you a reason to pause or if your child has had an effect from the vaccine like my friend’s three year old daughter who has shingles on account of the chicken pox vaccine.
When there is an outbreak of a certain disease, yes, I am very interested in the vaccine, but not until that time. Moreover with the newer vaccines…they are barely tested. We do not know of the side effects for years to come.
Before measles vaccine was developed, we lost thousands of innocent children every year, and as late as 1991 there was 130 childhood deaths from measles due to low vaccination rates.
Super Frugalette, there have been many outbreaks of whooping cough in California because of parents who don’t vaccinate their children.
I’m sorry, but I don’t think they should have a right to jeopardize the health of many.
Thanks for the inclusion! I think to get vaccinated or not is a personal choice, but in the case of children, it’s more difficult to say. Is it parental abuse if a vaccine could have saved their child’s life? It could be.
If we lived on an island with only adults and they all signed on with knowledge that not everyone was going to get vaccinated on the island, then I would be all for personal choice.
But we don’t, and our choices affect our children, our co-workers, and our co-workers child, and I’m not counting the nameless stranger you coughed on who then went home and spread your virus to her children…. Communicable diseases that we can eliminate with a vaccine have to be looked at with a different lens than the usual “personal choice” argument.
The vaccine withholding and child abuse argument is one that has some validity as well. Thanks for your comment.