Random Thoughts: No Fruitcakes here

It was a busy week for me, and as you might be able to tell, I was on course, so thus, my topics came from a mind that occasionally wandered away to odd and different places. With the Holiday Season in full swing, the topic of regifting seemed to be a natural discussion point, and the end of the year (and decade) another one that just seemed an obvious choice for things.

The stock market seems to be having an adjustment again, which means I lose some presumed value of some of my holdings, it’s a boom when I make money, it’s an adjustment when I lose money, pretty simple terminology, I guess.

This week the topics I covered included:

• In Here comes 2011 a warning to close off 2010 the fiscal year as well.
• Is regifting Gauche? is not just a question from a Seinfeld episode, it’s an important Holiday question as well.
• Strangely, I didn’t get the response expected when I said, I know I SHOULD take the bus where I received mostly comments about how I should keep driving to work?
• I realized I hadn’t commented on the latest employment numbers from Stats Canada hence my post Employment numbers, better late than never
• And I created an infinite recursion with my post Video: The Power of Video, ok that is a cheesy programming joke.
• Random Thoughts: For Veterans Week a great recap of things that happened during Veterans’ Week 2010.

With other authors this week, their minds didn’t wander off as far as mine, but still some very interesting content seen on my regular Financial Blogs reading list:

• Mike @ Million Dollar Journey asks the deep philosophical question How Much Does a Year of Happiness Cost? Mike took a risk, did it pay off?
• Michael James agrees with me that all things at a Bank is Negotiable with his post Negotiating a Line of Credit Interest Rate.
• Boomer of Boomer & Echo writes about Telemarketing Scams , possibly the most vial thing on earth.
• Canadian Capitalist wrote about Hubert: A new online savings bank. My guess is that they didn’t pay much for the guy who made up the name of the bank.
• Couples and Money: Do you have joint or separate finances, asks Man vs. Debt, in my case joint, but
• Larry MacDonald gets festive with Christmas Gift Ideas, but no free Toblerone bar with his post.
• Miss T of the Praire Eco-Thrifter goes a little off scirpt and writes about how We’re Spending Without Using our Brain? I must admit I have seen this a bunch of times, but didn’t know there was an actual scientific study that proved it.
• Preet does a review of the RESP Book by Mike Holman, Preet likes the book, and it’s nice to see Preet writing on his own blog, and not in the Globe and Mail (even if he is a Latte sucking Liberal).
• Congrats Promod over at Riscario Insider, he writes about his Lessons From His First Year as an Entrepreneur, he has more guts than I do.
• Tom at CanadianPersonalFinance answers the Holiday Question, What are Dividends? OK, it’s not very festive, but it is a good explanation.
• Miranda at MoneyHighway asks Women & Money: Are you investing to meet your needs? An interesting question to ask near the end of the year.

Remember

“Non plaudite. Modo pecuniam jacite”

Anonymous (Latin)

And also remember C8j’s Rule of Giving Fruitcake (watch for yellow ice)!