Cheddarblog

Mrs. Swiss_Mouse panicked last week.
With the market crashing downward, she actually suggested cashing out IRAs and 401ks and putting them in the bank.  Ouch! Can you imagine the tax hit on that?
Granted the numbers aren’t in yet, but the Swiss_Mouse looks to be down in networth approximately 10% by the end of the month.  Terrible […]

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The Swiss_Mouse posted this over on QuittingtheDayJob.com and rather than waste this tasty morsel, he presents it here as well…
Wake me up when September ends…
Seriously! What a month! Financial ruin and economic despair! Partisan politics and election turmoil! If only the Swiss_Mouse could see Russia from his house instead of that stupid […]

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Spotted an article in the local newspaper about a website that was allowing nerds with too much time on their hands to build internet radio stations. Live365.com is the site and the kicker was, it actually shares some of the revenue from ads.
Well the problem really is the fact that it costs about $15 a […]

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The Swiss_Mouse is a reader.  He like books, magazines, cheese wrappers….
In the September 2008 issue of Money Magazine he found an interesting article entitled “Millionaires in the Making”.
It was a profile of two young DINKs, both 27 who wanted to retire by age 40.  The magazine profiled them and said they “just might make it”.  […]

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The Swiss_Mouse’s hood was hit pretty heavy over the weekend by hurricane winds left over from Hurricane Ike.
Thus the Swiss_Mouse’s “bust your butt in September plan” got knocked off-line for a few days.
Luckily this was just a hiccup.  Some close by areas won’t have power for another 2 weeks.  No electricity, no cable,  no internet.  […]

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Amazing!
Just a short time after the Swiss_Mouse discussed Sarah Palin T-Shirts and how you needed to find a niche or trend to exploit…ahem…to cultivate, he heard about the Sarah Palin Action Figure.
What a great idea!  Not as great as the Sigmund Freud Action Figure(AK-47 optional), but still a great idea.
A lesson in how to Seize […]

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The Swiss_Mouse is driving to work the other day and while listening to the commentator talk about the recent Republican Convention, one of them is talking about Sarah Palin and what a huge hit she was at the convention.  Then he said: “… and they even have ‘I am Sarah Palin T-Shirts already over at […]

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Swiss_Mouse has been so busy on multiple projects….both at his day job (pronounced “dungeon”) and on his side projects.
He has already told you about Picks and Finds, his wife’s new website, and he will soon tell you about a venture he has been working on for a while, but yet to complete.  However he tells […]

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The Swiss_Mouse presents the project that he and Mrs. Swiss_Mouse have been working on:
www.picksandfinds.com
The idea for this site came from a conversation that the Mouse and the Mrs. were having one day.
She said “I like to shop (Swiss_Mouse felt a stabbing pain in his wallet at that moment), but how can I get paid to […]

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Mrs. Swiss_Mouse actually was receptive to an idea of making cheddar on the internet!
The other day while discussing the need to make some extra cheddar and leave the rat race, she said “You know, I have this idea…” The Swiss_Mouse pounced on it like Lindsey Lohan on a vodka martini.
Mrs. Swiss_Mouse’s idea isn’t necessarily unique […]

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