Personal Finance and Money Management

As the cliche goes, your health is the most important thing you can have. And as someone who spends a lot of time looking at stuff, eyesight is definitely important to me. I suppose it’s important to you, too. Oh heck, it’s important to all of us. Everyone’s a winner!

I recently lost a bunch of weight- 50 pounds worth to be exact. As a glasses wearer my entire life, I was starting to wonder whether life would be better wearing contacts instead of glasses. Would the ladies throw themselves at me? Would my sexiness continue to make the dudes jealous? There was only one way to find out. A few months ago, I took the plunge and made my first of what would be many eye appointments.

The Process

It all started with a phone call to the eye place (like I’m going to type out optometrist more than once) and a beginning $85 eye check. They too

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I’m currently engrossed in Peter Elkind’s entertaining 2010 book Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer. It’s a laugh-filled, fast-paced look at the life of the former New York attorney general and governor, whose swift rise to the top job in Albany was followed by an even swifter slalom out of elected office, after bombshell disclosures the “Luv Gov” had frolicked with ladies of the night.

Though the world of finance is laced through and through this story, one of the book’s particularly catchy references to cash snared my eye and led me to make a mental note — once I’d stopped chortling. The New York City business through which “Client No. 9″ (Spitzer) proc

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