Time to re-think daily expenses<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n+ You’re spending way too much on DirecTV, Verizon FiOS, Comcast, etc. For one, you don’t need their sports packages. There are no sports.<\/p>\n
+ The best bargains are\u00a0 Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube TV for TV and cable channels, except HBO.<\/p>\n
+ You’re probably spending too much on your cell phone, which you aren’t using much. Call up and get a better deal.<\/p>\n
+ You don’t need insurance on cars you’re not driving. In fact, you probably don’t need them at all. Uber and Lyft are much cheaper.<\/p>\n
+ Your credit cards are all wrong — at least mine are. My family’s main credit card is a Citicard MasterCard American Airlines Platinum Select. We have\u00a0627,118 miles chunked up on that card — enough mileage to go anywhere, if American survives and I want to go somewhere, anywhere. I’m switching to a Chase Amazon Prime card. It doesn’t give you airline miles. It gives you discounts. Real cash discounts. Remember cash?<\/p>\n
+ If you’re quarantining in a community with no useful banks and ATM machines with miniscule limits, try your local gas station. They’ll cash your city checks — and for free, too. Just keep buying gas, Coca Cola, newspapers and Palmolive.\u00a0 You can live without the rest.<\/p>\n
+ You do not need all those Amazon boxes you’ve been hoarding.<\/p>\n
No one listens.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nToday’s news:<\/p>\n
+ Bill Gates said he warned Trump about the dangers of a pandemic in December 2016 before he took office. Gates met with 2016 presidential candidates to tell them to make pandemic preparedness a national priority,<\/p>\n
No one listened — especially Trump. Look at the mess we’re now in.<\/p>\n
I’ve long wanted to write about “No One Listens.”<\/p>\n
My 50-year rule is that the only person who gets listened to is the fellow who “signs” the payroll checks, i.e. the CEO.<\/p>\n
In all these years, I thought I only had some “authority” if I signed the checks. But I’m relieved to hear there are bigger check signers who don’t get listened to.<\/p>\n
There are two answers: diversification or owning the business, or both. More about this complex subject another day.<\/p>\n
Beautifully done<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n