http://www.myownlittleblog.com Sharing My Ideas and Thoughts with the World. Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:04:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the past year, I have been flipping houses.  It seemed like a great way to make money, and give me the opportunity to do something I love - working on real estate. But, the entire process hasn't been easy.  We have made some mistakes along the way and I ... http://www.myownlittleblog.com/151/squeezing-more-profit-out-of-flips/ Our firm recently decided to expand their operations to include insurance products on top of the many financial services that we already offered.  I suppose this was a natural market for them to jump into as most of our existing services would be complimentary to the cheap auto insurance that ... http://www.myownlittleblog.com/150/training-to-sell-car-insurance/ One of my responsibilities as a husband (at least in my wife's mind) is that I am supposed to be romantic.  This can include many things such as buying her flowers, to getting a babysitter and taking a night off to spend time alone. But if you are a husband ... http://www.myownlittleblog.com/149/cheap-romantic-getaway/ With the 25th wedding anniversary of my parents on the horizon, my siblings and I have been trying to come up with gift ideas for them.  This will be no small event as it is becoming increasingly rare to see couples make it to the 25th anniversary and still be ... http://www.myownlittleblog.com/148/gifts-for-a-25th-wedding-anniversary/ The first time that I ever seriously hurt myself was when I was working for a commercial roofing Westerly RI company. I was minding my own business, just doing my job one day when a couple of guys on the ground started fighting. They threw a beer bottle and it ... http://www.myownlittleblog.com/147/brawl-and-fall/ As I had always been very good with money when I was younger, it nearly broke my heart when I had to go in for poor credit debt consolidation. I knew that it was better than the alternative of going bankrupt, but it was very upsetting, nonetheless. It all ... http://www.myownlittleblog.com/146/getting-back-on-financial-track/ The worst thing I ever did at work was lose some very important employment documents. I did not want to tell anyone, as I knew that it could very well cost me my job. I did not know what could have happened to them, other than that I must have ... http://www.myownlittleblog.com/145/the-thought-of-losing-my-job/ I recently decided that it was time for a change of career and I needed to weigh my options as to what I wanted to do with my life.  Having worked at the same job for the past 15 years, it was strange to be at the point where needed ... http://www.myownlittleblog.com/144/starting-a-job-as-a-travel-agent/ When we were in Florida, the kids were all extremely excited to be going to Disney World for the very first time. I had been there when I was a kid and it had been great. I was hoping that the experience would be as memorable for them as it ... http://www.myownlittleblog.com/143/making-memories-with-the-kids/ The company that I work for often has challenges for the staff to earn extra money and prizes. We have just completed a challenge for a Las Vegas hotel promotion. The winner gets an all inclusive four day trip to Vegas with a friend. I worked hard for this challenge, ... http://www.myownlittleblog.com/142/company-challenge/