MINT.COM!

Have you ever wished you could just have a little leprechaun do all your work for you, like make dinner, do the dishes, do the laundry, and worst of all, make time to manage your money? Well, I just discovered a great website - Mint.com - where you can easily manage your money and make it grow for free! The young founder, Aaron Patzer, age 30, just sold Mint.com to Intuit for $170 million! As an undergrad at Duke University, Patzer earned degrees in computer science, electrical engineering, and computer engineering. He later got his MSEE at Princeton, so as the overachiever that he is, it isn't schocking that he created Mint at age 25 and soon became a millionaire. The website is very organized and helpful. You should try it out!

Word of the Day

Bombast- /BOM-bast/, noun;
1. pompous or pretentious speech or writing.

Interesting Facts

Did You know..........

• If you have older paper money that has fallen apart a little bit, it's still valuable - if you have at least 51% of the bill. Otherwise, people could somehow tear their money apart right down the middle (50%) and you could get two bills for that one you tore apart.
• Bulls are color blind--so why do people wave red flags in front of them? (Special thanks to mumsy for coming up with this idea!)
• Americans spend approximately $3 billion on cat and dog food a year.
• At President Andrew Jackson's funeral, his pet parrot had to be removed from the room because he was swearing.
• Christmas hadn't become a national holiday in the U.S. until 1890.
• The first four countries to have television were: England, United States, Russia, and Brazil.
• In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for a girl to get married - to 12!

Do You Want to Help Out???

Have you ever been sitting around wishing you could help the world out a little? Well, you can! You may have heard of a website called freerice.com, where you're given a vocabulary word and you choose the synonym of the word out of your choices. For every question you get right, ten grains of rice are donated to poor and starving countries. Not only are you improving you education, but also you are helping the world out. They are partners with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Try it out, and have fun!

Word of the Day!

gastronome- /GAS-truh-nohm/, noun;
1. A connoisseur of good food and drink.

Word of the Day

apposite- /AP-uh-zit/, adjective;
1. Being of striking appropriateness and relevance; very applicable; apt.

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Word of the Day

Flibbertigibbet- /FLIB-ur-tee-jib-it/, noun;

A silly, flighty or scatterbrained person, especially a pert young woman with such qualities.