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My whole family contributed to my grandmother’s collection of salt and pepper shakers.When she had to downsize, she passed it on to me. I was honored, but it was massive.It had grown to over 1000 pieces, and I had to learn to let go. When I was a kid, my…
Warren Buffett has sold 23% of his Bank of America stake for about $10 billion since mid-July.Berkshire Hathaway’s American Express stake is now more valuable than its Bank of America bet.Buffett cashed in about 56% of his massive Apple bet in the first half of this year. Warren Buffett has…
It’s a sunny summer evening in Seattle, Washington, and I am running down a sidewalk in chic sandals and a floral dress, phone in hand and ponytail trailing in the wind.No one is chasing me. Rather, I’ve just gotten out of church and would like to get takeout before this…
In March 2023, William Gordon received a letter in the mail from his title company congratulating him on the $200,000 sale of his Tucson, Arizona, property. The catch: He’d never listed it for sale.Gordon noticed almost immediately that the congratulatory letter was off.”I noticed the last four digits of the…
Ever since the FDA approved the prescription of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, it’s been hard to get hold of the real thing.Demand is so high for semaglutide, a GLP-1 sold under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy, that it almost immediately went into shortage after it was FDA-approved for weight control…
A week into their honeymoon in 2022, Katie Flynn and Mistry Bhavik faced a major healthcare: Flynn had caught a severe amoeba infection while traveling in the Philippines. The monthlong vacation they had been dreaming about had to be cut short.Both full-time pharmacists in Ontario, Canada, the couple had no…
A Nantucket beach house once estimated to be worth $1.9 million was sold for just $200,000 after parts of the property got swallowed by the sea, the Nantucket Current reported.According to the local outlet, Jane Carlin and her husband, Ben Gifford, bought the beach house in 1988 on the western…
China’s State Security Ministry said on Thursday that a retiree had somehow secured four volumes of confidential military documents at a recycling store for just 85 cents.The ministry described the incident in a social media post encouraging the public to be vigilant on national security matters, and praised the retiree…
We were on vacation in Florida, having breakfast in the hotel, when my 5-year-old son made an observation that left me speechless: “Mama, no somos los únicos hablando Español.”It was true. That morning we were surrounded by a lot of other people also speaking Spanish — a mix of Mexican,…
A 1983 “Apple Computer,” business card signed in black ink by Steve Jobs sold for $181,183 on Thursday, according to RR Auction. It’s the highest price a business card has ever sold for, spokesperson Mike Graff said in a statement.The off-white business card was listed as the “extremely rare, perfectly…
