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Account Beneficiaries

The Importance of Naming Beneficiaries

In all 401K, IRA, and HSA accounts, as well as life insurance policies and bank accounts, there is a form linked to the account naming beneficiaries if the owner of the account were to pass away. These forms are usually filled out when the account is created (if even at …

Bunch O Balloons: Crowd Funding Done Right

If you haven’t heard about Bunch O Balloons by now, then you must be living under a rock. Bunch O Balloons became a viral sensation hours after a Kickstarter campaign was launched in order to raise $20,000 to bring the product to market.  Bunch O Balloons revolutionizes water fights and …

moving a pool

Extreme Frugalness Story: Moving a Pool

I saw this pool outside our local Wal-Mart on my last visit there and it brought back some memories. When I had owned a truck we bought one for the kids at our last house. The kids loved it and it worked really well for my younger son, because the …

Running Out of Water

Running Out of Water in Las Vegas

Las Vegas is in the middle of a water crisis, essentially they are running out of water.  Las Vegas gets 90% of its water from Lake Mead, the reservoir created by the Hoover Dam, one of man’s greatest industrial achievements.  In the last 10 years Lake Mead has dropped 15 …