sandhillsis on February 26th, 2010

  (Thanks to BlogHer Pic App for this photo that makes me want to throw-up.) It’s tax time, ie: pay more time if you’re a overachieving small business owner or it’s get back more  than you paid in for others. How fair is that?  Our tax system is broken. It unfairly taxes the high income earners (a lot of [...]

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sandhillsis on January 14th, 2010

We went to another gun show last week. If you don’t remember what happen at the last one click here. The boys had their wallets stuffed full of hard earned good-grade money. After they had put some in their give and save envelopes, it was time to spend some. So off we went to see what treasures we couldn’t live without. [...]

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sandhillsis on December 16th, 2009

  If you are like 75-80% of Americans or the Jones, you live paycheck to paycheck  and haven’t saved for a rainy day or invested for retirement. The top two reasons you haven’t is sitting in your driveway, in your stomach (or on your hips) in the form of eating out. That was certainly our reality a [...]

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sandhillsis on November 30th, 2009

Marlin (our real, live case-study millionaire) was invited by his bank to one of their tea and crumpet parties to hear a PhD of economics speak about the economy. Marlin, who never goes to the wine and cheese affairs because he has to work, thought economics might be a good topic, so he went. After the talk the doctor took questions. Marlin [...]

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