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
This post is in honor of my son’s birthday. He’s a great kid, smart, married up, caring and carving a space in this wonderful world.
I can hear him now, “Thank God for spell check,” his life long techie mantra that came to mind as I read about a spelling mishap.
It seemed appropriate to mention his only (yes the only one, I’m his Dad after all) weakness: he can’t spell worth a damn. Says he gets it from his Mom. I don’t like to argue.
Happy Birthday Will!
Let’s get started with the Friday Financial Follies, a folio of funny fables for your reading pleasure.
Happy Birthday Will
Express Mail-Not!
Two hundred years is a long time to wait on a package, but the government of Spain took delivery anyway. Maybe they were persuaded to accept delivery because it was 496 million dollar’s worth of gold coins. Ya think?
Web Marketing 101
Dumb Crook meets high tech. A hit man tried to use the internet to market his business. Seeing as putting a price on a head, a.k.a contract killing, is illegal and the FBI prosecutes that sort of thing, the fella advertised himself to prison. Note to self…
Can’t Even Read It
Thermometers can be hard to read when swallowed as you’ll see in the video of a Chinese woman’s lung. She has a thermometer that shows up in an x-ray from an accidental swallowing 44 years ago.
Stuck that Rabbit Pose
Yoga is a wonderful way to stretch and meditate, and…Win a medal at the Olympics? There is a growing call for this soothing, ‘get in touch with your inner self’, activity to carve out a niche at the Olympics. Go for the gold medal in Upward Dog?
Medical Tats:
Medical Tattoos-No kidding. Replacing bracelets to pass on medical info, these tats don’t say ‘Mom’ or USMC. Ink over your heart about your feelings on CPR? Can’t miss this message!
Those Newborn Bracelets Mean Something
Newborns are on lockdown in the hospital, even if your last name is Kennedy.
Career advice?
Plastic surgeons head to Buffalo, New York. Local teachers have cosmetic surgery rider in their health insurance policy. Don’t worry, just the taxpayers picking up the tab.
Personal Finance and other good reads:
10 Interview Questions designed to trick you at Yahoo Money. I’m not looking for work, but you may be…
Super Frugalette tells you how to estimate your taxes to prevent the Feds from using your money all year.
Funancials explains to you why you want to eliminate your tax refund. Great story!
Steps to a cleaner, straighter, more organized, less cluttered closet at American Debt Project.
Suba at Wealth Infomatics discusses the paradigm of quitting your job/falling out of love with your career.
Free Financial Advisor reviews Mint. Joe is a true convert. I’ll have to go back and see if they’ve added my small town banks.
The Money Principle has a brain teaser. Stop teasing, I’ll admit now, I have no brain!
Carnivals, Roundups and Giveaways, Oh My!
Carnival of Financial Camaraderie
Top Personal Finance Posts of the Week-Dubstep Cat Edition
Yakezie Carnival-The Daytona 500 Edition
Carnival of Retirement-8th Edition
Invest It Wisely liked my success and productivity post.
American Debt Project and Free Financial Advisor liked my post on 8 reasons single women buying homes vs renting.
Giveaways
Win $25 in cash at Stock Trend Investing
The Extra Money Blog is hosting a $1,500 plus more give away
Win an iPod Shuffle at Black Freelancer.
Budgeting in the Fun Stuff and fellow bloggers are giving away over $500 in cash. Sign up by March 5th.
Have a great weekend, and thanks for reading. And if you see Will, tell him Happy Birthday!
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Thanks for mentioning me and… I may just listen to you and stop the teaser
Those are a lot of gold coins! I bet the government is happy with the results. Does the salvage company at least get a small reward?
I would think they would get a very large reward…
Happy Birthday, Will!
That thermometer accident just sounds painful. I cringed….her lung! Know what’s moronic? I knew I’d cringe when I clicked the link and I did it anyway.
Then I cringed. Shocker.
Yea, it’s like those horror movies you know what’s coming but you have to keep watching! We humans are just weird.
Great collection of articles and happy belated birthday to Will!