http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2010/03/05/life-and-finance-lessons-from-the-vancouver-winter-olympics/ Everything to do with thickening your wallet Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2010/03/05/life-and-finance-lessons-from-the-vancouver-winter-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-20683 youngandthrifty Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:07:08 +0000 http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/?p=1525#comment-20683 Well said and great analogy! Thanks for the link. Actually, we Canadians were surprised by how many gold medals we had won. Canada had not won a gold medal on home soil... EVER. So it was quite amazing. I think everyone here is going through Olympics withdrawl, missing the spirit and excitement that was just a few days ago. Though we ARE getting the paralympic games, though definitely not drawing the same number of crowds as the Olympics. Well said and great analogy! Thanks for the link. Actually, we Canadians were surprised by how many gold medals we had won. Canada had not won a gold medal on home soil… EVER. So it was quite amazing. I think everyone here is going through Olympics withdrawl, missing the spirit and excitement that was just a few days ago. Though we ARE getting the paralympic games, though definitely not drawing the same number of crowds as the Olympics.

]]> http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2010/03/05/life-and-finance-lessons-from-the-vancouver-winter-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-20680 2 Cents @ Balance Junkie Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:18:23 +0000 http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/?p=1525#comment-20680 Well said. News reporting has merged with entertainment and that seems like a dangerous thing. I don't care if the news is boring and I don't want to hear any more about celebrities and billionaires misbehaving. I just want to hear the facts about relevant topics. As far as human interest goes, why don't we have a segment about good people and good news? I guess that just doesn't sell as well as Tiger Woods getting clocked with a golf club by his wife. Well said. News reporting has merged with entertainment and that seems like a dangerous thing. I don’t care if the news is boring and I don’t want to hear any more about celebrities and billionaires misbehaving. I just want to hear the facts about relevant topics. As far as human interest goes, why don’t we have a segment about good people and good news? I guess that just doesn’t sell as well as Tiger Woods getting clocked with a golf club by his wife.

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