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Joe Plemon: Financial Writer

Do You Make Excuses or Seize Opportunites?

October 29, 2010 by Joe Plemon 13 Comments

Coker Tires is the world’s largest supplier of vintage tires, but it wasn’t always that way. Career coach Dan Miller tells the story of how this company, which started as a traditional service center in Chattanooga in 1958, saw their business gradually erode as the big-box retailers began dominating the competition. In 1974 the owner’s […]

Filed Under: Biblical Thoughts On Finance

Eight Win-Win Tips For Boomerang Kids and Their Parents

October 27, 2010 by Joe Plemon 7 Comments

Grown children returning home is not a new phenomena; it has historically complemented recessions, high unemployment and simple financial survival.  As you might expect, boomeranging children have become more common in recent years.  According to a poll by Pew Research Center, nearly 1 in 7 parents with grown children had a “boomerang kid” move back […]

Filed Under: Dollars and Sense, Family

My Car Needs an Engine. Should I Sell it, Fix it or Junk it?

October 25, 2010 by Joe Plemon 119 Comments

My Car Needs an Engine, Should I...Sell it, Fix it, or Junk it?

In my Change Your Mindset and Save a Fortune: 200,000 Miles is the New 100,000 Miles post, I bragged about my plans to save fortune by driving  my sweet 1999 Cadillac DeVille at least 200,000 miles. Well, we have trouble in paradise: my Caddy has an engine flaw…a head gasket leak that cannot be repaired; […]

Filed Under: Dollars and Sense, Vehicles

Five Steps to Give You Power Over Purchase

October 20, 2010 by Joe Plemon 10 Comments

Have you ever made purchases you later regretted?  Me too.  I have written several posts about my Airstream purchase – one that I would have been better off avoiding. Let’s say you have planned and dreamed and saved for that car or TV or leather couch. Good for you. But slow down a bit before […]

Filed Under: Dollars and Sense

Proverbs 31 Woman: Catalyst to a Rich Marriage

October 15, 2010 by Joe Plemon 10 Comments

Some people have the mistaken idea that the “Biblical woman” is docile, subservient and entirely domestic. Not so! The Proverbs 31 woman, besides being an excellent wife and mother, is also a manufacturer, importer, manager, realtor, farmer, seamstress, upholsterer, and merchant. She is a woman of strength and dignity, not because of her outstanding accomplishments, […]

Filed Under: Biblical Thoughts On Finance

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