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7 Harsh Realities And A Thieving Santa

by Nick Laborde on August 22, 2010 · 5 comments

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes I bet you’re wondering about this thieving Santa, I’ll get to that. Full disclosure, you might encounter a four letter word, fair warning. Here you go, some harsh realities, in no particular order. 1. Making money ain’t easy Turns out pop was right, money doesn’t grow on trees. If [...]

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Travel And High School Politics

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes Seems that the old high school politics are alive and well in the travel community. Which is a shame, we all have a common interest of travel. Regardless of how we choose to experience it, it’s our love of the world and new adventures that should bring us together. [...]

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Why I’m a Crappy Employee

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes For the sake of brevity I’ll only cover two reasons, frankly I could write an epic post on this topic. Plus I have the attention span of a cracked out squirrel. Why Would I Admit That I’m Crappy? I started reading “Before You Quit your Job” by Robert Kiyosaki. [...]

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Weekly Dose of Thought Provoking Web Goodness

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes I’m switching it up a bit this week … yeah we’re going deep. You’ll just have to forgive all the seriousness. Hey, I might even throw in a bad joke to lighten the mood. Seems that I’ve been drawn to some thought provoking blog posts this week. I think [...]

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Dear American Dream, It’s Over

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes I don’t expect you to understand why I’m dumping you. To be brutally honest, I really don’t care. I know you don’t get it; I have the great job with an awesome company. The new house in the suburbs, with the fancy granite countertops. Aunt Bee, that bakes killer [...]

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Weekly Dose of Travel Awesomeness – Budget

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes The other day I wrote a post about some creative budget ideas. The tips were meant as jokes but I suppose they could work. Budget doesn’t have to be a four-letter word (I know, it literally isn’t). Unfortunately I don’t have an extremely rich uncle that’s about to kick [...]

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4 Extreme Budgeting Tips For Saving Some Serious Cash

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes I’ve been trying (unsuccessfully) to save for my backpacking trip next year. All the standard budgeting tips were not working for me. I soon realized I needed to resort to some extreme measures to reach my financial goal. In this journey I discovered some killer techniques for banking some [...]

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Weekly Dose of Travel Awesomeness – Planning

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes For this week, in sticking with the theme of planning, I would like to share some helpful resources I discovered. As an aspiring world traveler planning for a RTW trip next year, I have been doing a lot of reading … Until I depart for my adventure, all I [...]

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Planning vs. Not Planning for World Travel

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes I read a post the other day over at the Spunky Girl Monologues blog that gave me some perspective on my approach to planning my future-backpacking trip. Her title “I’m A Wee Bit Backwards” sums up the premise very well, which is similar to my approach to the subject. [...]