Lindsay Wilcox look up Jeff Brown and he's got some blog posts on why not to invest in your 401K...I'll get back to the why when I have more time and I'm not at work or cooking dinner for a 3 year old.

I just went to dinner at a local “historic landmark” restaurant on many acres with ponds, streams, etc. and asked how they were making money paying for all this?

Land eats interest for breakfast, principal for lunch & taxes for dinner. 

I attended a shareholder dinner for a local startup business bank on Thurs night.

Another example, I have a friend who is a chef at a medium sized restaurant, blue collar, hard working and come up the very hard way,  and its always great to attend dinner at his place usually every 2 years.

@Valerie Rogers I definitely do know your son and daughter in law, and I'm meeting up with your daughter in law for dinner next week!

Not even enough to take my self to a nice dinner. 

Figure out whose shoes you want to trade with, and take them to dinner, or offer to run errands for them or anything along those lines.   

You are impatient and oversensitive and real estate investing eats that for dinner.

(I probably could have chosen his last dinner in Korea a little more carefully ^^)Taste of Thailand - KyungridanWe had a collection of Seoul REI Members as well as a local restauranteur / celebrity that Matthew new from his college days.Our conversation centered around:* How to use banks to transfer money back and forth between the two countries* Setting up an LLC while living outside the country* The best entity structure for non US citizens when investing in the US* The local Korean markets and the highly leveraged "Junse" strategy of investing (see my BP Members blog for more articles on that)* Gold as an asset and different types of gold-based account (bottom line on this - Make sure your bank actually has the gold!)