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My Monopoly Family

August 29th, 2006 at 04:35 pm

I went to

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oneshare.com and purchased one share of Burlington Northern (NYSE:
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BNI) for my child's birthday. I printed out an announcement and gave it to him. He has birthday on the brain. Union Pacific (NYSE:
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UNP) is nice too, but there's a Burlington Northern railway a few miles west of us, by the beach, and I wanted something my son could see and identify.
I could also put Boeing (NYSE:
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BA) and Microsoft (NASD:
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MSFT) in his Coverdell plan too, as he identifies those company logos readily. Union Pacific will have to wait until Christmas.

When I told my husband what I had done (it was pricey! fees, shipping, framing, gift wrap, commission!) he said "maybe I should start buying railroad stock, with peak oil to deal with." Yes! A possible convert! We can discuss DRPs (thanks for the
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moneypaper.com idea,
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baselle) and
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Sharebuilder.com!



I quipped, "yes, we can be the Monopoly family. I bought Water Works (the WaterShares Exchange Traded Fund
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PHO), you and the boy can buy the railroads, and I'll look into another utility and maybe some Kinder Morgan Partners and commercial real estate trusts."

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2 Responses to “My Monopoly Family”

  1. LuckyRobin Says:
    August 30th, 2006 at 01:54 am 1156902865
    1156902865

    LOL My son is train crazy, too and I think I will get him a share of railroad stock for Christmas. That is such a neat idea.

  2. baselle Says:
    August 30th, 2006 at 04:26 am 1156911964
    1156911964

    Congrats - welcome to the wunderful world of drips. Two more sites - http://www.directinvesting.com & http://dripinvesting.org/drips.htm

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