PayPerPost is looking to sponsor a wedding. They are looking for someone to “get hitched on November 18th, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The package includes:

• The wedding license and ceremony
• One nights stay at a premium Vegas Hotel
• $1000.00 hard cold cash yours to spend any way you want.
• Your wedding will be taped and streamed
• Crazy PayPerPost antics live for everyone to see.

The exception is that this can be a 2nd marriage but it cannot be a renewal of vows. I don’t think they want you to divorce your spouse and then get married again either. Go to www.payperpostwedding.com for details and to submit your story.

This is especially great if you’re in the Vegas area and don’t want a typical Elvis wedding. I will definitely be following this one to see if anyone takes them up on the offer. One con is this is relatively short notice so one issue is making sure your partner WANTs to get married and the second issue is convincing them to do it PayPerPost style. So decide if you really want to and go for the payperpost wedding.

Usually I’m a person that always want credit line increases without a hard pull on their credit. However I’m tired of a dingy $1,100 line so when I asked the CSR for an automatic increase without a hard pull, she said they gave me a $300 bump last month already, so no deal. She then asked for a hard pull on my credit report and they would review it. I thought about it and eh, why not? My credit score will be better off in 6 months after the effect of the credit inquiry is gone. Bam! Instead of a petty $300-$500 bump, I got my line increased from $1,100 to $4,000.

So far I’ve gone from my first credit card 6 months ago with a $800 limit to a 3 credit cards with a $9,200 limit combined. Not bad for only 6 months of credit building eh?

I was drunk the whole week. That’s about it.

Just kidding.

It was my wonderful girlfriend’s birthday on saturday I was busy with planning, school work and misc other stuff the whole week. After everything, my net worth went down a bit, but hey, it’s worth it. I saved money where I could, but it’s her special day. That’s also the difference between being frugal and cheap. People dislike cheap people, not frugal people. Cheap people are the ones that won’t give a friend a lift without demanding gas money or whatnot from them. Frugal people are the kind that pack their own lunches instead of buying food at work/school/etc. Frugal people dont’ mind spending money on the people they care about. I’m frugal, not cheap. That’s about it, I’ll get back to my irregular schedule of posting at odd hours (but more often!) folks.

I already got a nice base of growing dividend paying stocks. Now it’s time for some riskier investments.

Here’s what I got in recently
DRL at $4.90 – expect me to average down if the price sinks further.
ASEI at $52.09 – this one shot up a bit in the past few days.

Doral Financial Corp. (DRL) – Doral is been bleeding nonstop. The main issue was that they had to restate their earnings and had major problems with the i/o strips. They’ve settled their issues with the SEC and have hired new senior management. However there are issues that we have to deal with including the Puerto Rican economy growing at a paltry 1%, loan volumes are down, and tons of other problems. The picture isn’t pretty, but I really think management can turn the company around and the Puerto Rican economy will come out of its slump. I’m prepared to invest in this one for the long run.

American Science and Engineering (ASEI) – They develop security (x-ray) equipment and their customer base is governments entities. Part of this investment idea is that I think demand is growing for the types of products they sell and a whopping 29% of shares were held short, 27% now. Wait for that short squeeze baby.

What you’re seeing is a new template in process. I’ll thank Wilks from Highest Echelon for helping me get started. I’ll finish everything in time. I’m going to sleep now.

PayPerPost aka PPP is a blog ads site. As part of a promotional campaign they are running a contest to earn $500 straight to your PayPal by piecing together all the pieces that are part of the payperpostbluemonster image. The puzzle contains hints to their program code named Blue Monster. Load up your Photoshops, good luck. Here’s a hint since I like you guys, there’s a required phrase in every one of these posts containing these images all over the web, so if you can figure out that phrase, you can easily search for them.

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Last notice for the Carnival of Investing submissions. Get all your posts in for the Carnival of Investing #45 hosted here at Endless Gibberish on Monday, October 23rd. Submit your posts here.

Furthermore, my ebay auctions are ending tonight!

The first time I heard of this blog was when they sent me some traffic (under my old site name) with this post detailing penny stocks and why they are horrible investments. Although the blog is geared more towards “achieving financial freedom for those drones slaving away in jobs they hate”, the site basically is a personal aggregator of personal finance content. I do find interesting things on there from time to time. Check it out – Free the Drones Blog. Which reminds me, I should get a tag line for my blog, perhaps “helping college student develop a financial plan to work as least as possible”.

I guess I never blogged about a way people could contact me.

Well, you can either e-mail me at hejustlaughs at gmail dot com (I format it that way to help with all those damn spambots, I get enough junk mail as it is.) If you’re gonna e-mail me, make the subject noticeable because I comb through tons of e-mails everyday. Usually I will reply within the same day or within the next two days.

I usually leave my computer on and logged onto aim so you can instant message me through AIM with the screen name hejustlaughs.