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
I’m headed north this weekend to help my daughter move. Every time I say, “This is the last time,” I always eat my words. So why do I bother with those wasted words of wishful thinking???
Moving, Moving, Moving, gotta keep Movin'....
I’m not sure, but I’ll do my best this time to just “enjoy” being in the moment with my family. (even if it is trudging up stairs with a couch and washing machine….)
Family is after all family…
Let’s get started with:
This weeks financial and health foibles, follies and falderal:
Financial and Health News:
Justice department sues Apple and book publishers for monopoly price fixing on eBooks. This suit will end up saving us money on eBooks, but may end up causing publishers to fail.
Maid Service: New Niche
Waitress struggling to make ends meet in Lubbuck, Texas creates Fantasy Maids, a new niche in the maid service industry: nude maids. Concerned this is a cover for the oldest profession, law enforcers are watching the business carefully. Public officials and law officers receive a discount.
North Pole Marathon
How many of you have run a marathon? How many of you have run a marathon at minus 20 F? How many of you ran a -20F marathon and accepted a proposal of marriage at the finish line?
Lose Weight with a New Habitat
All you need to do is get a new roomier crib and it’ll happen, you drop weight. Elephants at a zoo in Hawaii dropped a mere 300#s each. Cool. That could be you.
Yuck
Man bringing joy to the neighborhood, selling ice cream from his truck. No problem. It was the drugs he was selling from his underwear that got him arrested.
Early Season Baseball Humor
This job posting made it to Twitter before is was removed from Craigslist:
RELIEF PITCHERS WANTED: CHICAGO CUBS (Wrigley Field).
Bears and Texting Don’t Mix
Guy walking down the street (In LA???) texting, encounters a bear. Texting does increase the rate of accidents. In this case accidentally walking into a Bear’s personal space….
Hocus Pocus? Not Hypnosis
Hypnosis is becoming more mainstream in treating anxiety and other medical problems. And no walking around acting like a chicken….
Facebooking Felonious Fool
The cops are getting pretty close to nabbing a fellow who updates his Facebook page after every cop evasion. He’s convicted of 5 felonies, one is for assault on his girlfriend. She may be an ex as he changed his Facebook status to ‘available’.
Medical News
Even if you apply sunscreen, etc, it may not be enough
Drug Shortages, In The USA
Bad enough to be admitted into the hospital, but then they run out of medicines to treat you. Third world country? Nope, right here in the US. (I get an email almost weekly from our hospital pharmacy about drug shortages.)
Personal Finance and other good reads:
The Worst of the Free Financial Advisor Podcast Episode #4...iTunes Subscribe Here (yes I’m a panelist, no, I don’t know why…)
Eating less salt is the subject at Prairie Eco-Thrifter.
One Cent At A Time has a guest post on what to ask your doctor before surgery. Most are actually good advice. I added one in the comments…
My Broken Coin discusses shopping in pawn shops. I think they are fun, but I see her point about them being a little depressing. To me though no worse than standing in line to pay for gas while three people are scratching off their scratch offs at the counter….I guess if they win they can buy a malted beverage….
KrantCents wants you to do your resume backwards.
Carnivals This Week
The Life and Business Coach Carnival at Innovative Solutions for Positive Change
The Carnival of Financial Camaraderie at My University Money
Yakezie Carnival at Passive Income to Retire
Canadian Finance Carnival at Canadian Finance Blog
Easy Six Figure Income Blog Carnival at Lisa’s Six Figure Income
Yakezie Carnival at Watson Inc.
Financial Carnival for Young Adults at 20s Finances
Carnival of Retirement at Passive Income to Retire
Financial Simplicity Carnival at Work Save Live
Top Personal Finance Posts of the Week at Personal Finance Whiz
Festival of Frugality at One Smart Dollar
Giveaways
$25 Amazon giftcard or Paypal @ 20s Finances until 4/17.
REtire by 40′s April Giveaway-O0ma Telo Voip System
Invest it Wisely: New Ipad and other great prizes
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Thanks for the links, I really appreciate it.
Have fun with your family – strangely enough I had very similar thoughts today (that I should be more present with my family). As to the North Pole marathon, I want to do this; not sure about a proposal but otherwise sound like fun (John is threatening divorce though).
Go for it! You could have a second honeymoon in an igloo! Cool huh:)
Nosirree, I don’t understand the running marathon mentality, much less in the North Pole! That’s just snow on ice, people, no land! But I guess a marriage proposal was a happy award for finishing.
Drug shortages… that’s almost too hard to believe that a free marketplace can’t get a product to willing buyers. Ah, but I forget myself, it’s not a free marketplace.
Great call 101. The feds limitations on medicare drug spending has limited the margins on many drugs making very little margin for drug makers, therefore the incentive for production is limited.
I had a big move last year, and hopefully it will be the last for a while! Thanks for the inclusion
Thanks for mentioning the show again, Dr. Dean! Of course we know why you’re a panelist…because if you weren’t there’d be no good, calm advice on the show.