You can’t always get it right. My theory was that demand for consumer staples would recover in 2025. Stocks like Kraft Heinz and other packaged goods companies would show improving sales as interest rates started dropping. Well, that hasn’t been the case. Kraft beat their earnings estimate again today, but
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Cash Back Apps: Ibotta & Fetch
My girlfriend recently discovered Ibotta and Fetch. She has several friends who have been using these apps to get cash back on their purchases and decided to try them for herself. This won’t be an in-depth review of cash back apps. You can find lots of good reviews online. I
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Twice a year our city has a residential waste recycling event. I was thinking I could get rid of some of the junk that I have squirreled away in my home. The event starts at 7:30AM and ends at 11:30PM. During the 4-hour window, there is typically a long line
Continue readingA Bit of a Dip Into IBIT
In late August 2025 I bought 60 shares of IBIT at a price of $62.46 per share. IBIT is the Ishares Bitcoin ETF. About two weeks later, I sold all my shares at $66.86 per share. This gave me a profit of $263.53. My plan was to only hold for
Continue readingXbox Controllers Sold in 2025
So far in 2025, I have repaired and sold 32 Xbox controllers. My goal (was) to sell 50 controllers, but it has been extremely difficult to find controllers that are priced low enough to make a profit. My average profit this year is $8.78 per controller. That doesn’t include the
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Although we still have two months left in 2025, I decided to compare my monthly credit card bill to last year’s. In 2024, I had three months where I had over $500 on my cc bill. One of those months was when I had to buy a new refrigerator. Since
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