In case you missed it during the holiday rush, Cuisinart has issued a recall of over 8 million food processor blades in the US and Canada. This covers a huge chunk of their machines sold in the last 20 years, including the one in my kitchen. The riveted blades can crack over time and leave small metal pieces in your food (yikes!).

This recall involves the riveted blades in Cuisinart food processors with model numbers that begin with the following: CFP-9, CFP-11, DFP-7, DFP-11, DFP-14, DLC-5, DLC-7, DLC-8, DLC-10, DLC-XP, DLC-2007, DLC-2009, DLC-2011, DLC-2014, DLC-3011, DLC-3014, EV-7, EV-10, EV-11, EV-14, KFP-7 and MP-14. The model number is located on the bottom of the food processor. The blades have four rivets and are silver-colored stainless steel and have a beige plastic center hub. Only food processors with four rivets in the blades are included in this recall. Cuisinart is printed on the front and on the bottom of the food processors.

Cuisinart will send you a free replacement blade if you contact them through their website at recall.cuisinart.com or call them at 877-339-2534 from 7am to 11pm ET Monday through Friday and from 9am to 5pm ET Saturday and Sunday. They have not offered anything further such as partial refunds or reimbursements.

I submitted my information online and received a confirmation e-mail. They were very vague with how long it would take to send the new blades.

Thank you so much for registering to receive your free Cuisinart replacement blade. Our blades are fabricated using precise manufacturing processes, which of course means, that they take some time to produce. We are producing new blades as rapidly as possible to meet the demand resulting from this replacement program.

When your blade is about to be shipped, we will send you an email so you can anticipate when it will arrive to the address you indicated on your replacement blade registration. In the meantime, you are able to use all other cutting implements and accessories that may have come with your Cuisinart food processor.

Among the many booths at Berkshire Hathaway’s 2015 Annual Meeting was one run by a local bookstore. Each year, BRK approves a list of books, many of which have been mentioned in shareholder letters or other speeches by Warren Buffett and/or Charlie Munger. I always see media articles referring to this list (ex. 11 Picks from Warren Buffett’s Bookshelf), but here is the entire official list from The Bookworm.

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.” – Warren Buffett

Besides the well-known Buffett biographies and classic investing books, it still manages to include several investing books I’d never heard of before, as well as some intriguing non-investing books by Buffett’s siblings and children. There is even a comic book and a separate section for kids. Here’s the Amazon-linkified list, sorted by category in alphabetical order.

About Warren Buffett

• Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values by Lawrence Cunningham
• Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders collected by Max Olson
• Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
• Buffett’s Bites: The Essential Investor’s Guide to Warren Buffett’s Shareholder Letters by L.J. Rittenhouse
• The Essays of Warren Buffett, Lessons for Corporate America collected by Lawrence Cunningham
• A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers from Warren E. Buffett by Peter Bevelin
• Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett, 2014 Endless Extra Edition by Andrew Kilpatrick
• The Oracle & Omaha: How Warren Buffett and His Hometown Shaped Each Other by Steve Jordan
• The Real Warren Buffett: Managing Capital, Leading People by James O’Loughlin
• Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything by Carol Loomis
• Warren Buffett: An Illustrated Biography of the World’s Most Successful Investor by Ayano Morio
• Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha by Richard Connors
• Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World’s Greatest Investor, Second Edition, by Janet Lowe
• The Warren Buffett Way, Third Edition, by Robert G. Hagstrom

About Charlie Munger

• Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Third Edition edited by Peter Kaufman

On Investing

• Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks
• Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation by John Bogle
• The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street’s Bullish 60s by John Brooks
• The Great Crash: 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham
• The Intelligent Investor (Revised Edition) by Benjamin Graham, revised by Jason Zweig
• Investing Between the Lines: How to Make Smarter Decisions by Decoding CEO Communications by Laura Rittenhouse
• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John Bogle
• Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938 by John Brooks
• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William Thorndike
• Strategic Value Investing: Practical Techniques of Leading Value Investors by Stephen Horan, Robert Johnson and Thomas Robinson
• The Ten Commandments for Business Failure by Donald R. Keough
• Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? Or a Good Hard Look at Wall Street by Fred Schwed, Jr.

General Interest

• Dream Big by Cris Correa
• Foods You Will Enjoy: The Story of Buffett`s Store by Bill Buffett
• Forty Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World by Howard G. Buffett
• Giving It All Away: The Doris Buffett Story by Michael Zitz
• Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment by Peter Buffett
• Life Lessons in Business: Wisdom from Warren E. Buffett & L.A. “Davy” Davidson by Gwyn Davidson Larsen
• Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin
• The Women of Berkshire Hathaway: Lessons from Warren Buffett’s Female CEOs and Directors by Karen Linder

Family and Children’s Interests

• My First Berkshire ABC by Nancy Rips
• The Oracle’s Fables: Life Lessons for Children Inspired by the Oracle of Omaha by John Prescott, illustrated by Tom Kerr
• The Secret Millionaires Club: Warren Buffett’s 26 Secrets to Success in the Business of Life by Andy & Amy Heyward
• The Secret Millionaires Club DVD, Volume 1 and Volume 2
• The Secret Millionaires Club Business in a Box

Here is some “big picture” financial advice from author and columnist Jonathan Clements. I’d like to collect enough of these tips from notable people and make a compilation post.

Clements recently wrote his last column “How to Live a Happier Financial Life” for the Wall Street Journal Sunday (which is ending publication), but he’ll still be writing for the main Wall Street Journal (on Saturdays). I’ll just paraphrase the bullet points below; read the full article for the details.

• The biggest waste of time is commuting.
• The best investment attribute to have is humility.
• The biggest key to financial success is cheap housing.
• The best way to spend money is to buy experiences.
• Your top financial goal should be to have the ability to do fulfilling work, as opposed to working solely for a paycheck.

I guess he’s a sentimental guy because he also wrote a “last column” called “Parting Shot: What I Learned From Writing 1,008 Columns” in 2008 when he left the Wall Street Journal to join Citigroup (before coming back). Highlights below; read full article for details.

The question – What is the reason for all this saving and investing?

• If you have money, you’ll worry less about it.
• Money can give you the freedom to pursue your passions.
• Money can buy you time with friends and family.

I checked and both articles weren’t behind a paywall at the time of writing, but that may change in the future.

Thank you very much for reading My Money Blog this year. It’s now been over 10 years… where has the time gone! I still look forward to learning and sharing something new every day. Here’s hoping that you are happy, healthy, and moving ever closer toward your goals.

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Just a quick note that I finally updated this site’s design after many, many years. The primary goal of this redesign was to improve usability and readability across modern computer screens, which now span from 30″ widescreen monsters to 3.5″ smartphones. I’m also trying to improve navigation so that readers can easily find the more timeless posts amidst the many other time-sensitive posts. I still have a lot of work to do by going through my archives and cleaning things up.

Please let me know if anything is broken or just what you think of it. Thanks!

Money management website Mint.com recently did a brief interview with me, although we did cover a variety of topics. Here’s the link:

Personal Finance Interview with Jonathan Ping on Money Management

I’ve been getting my butt kicked by a bout of food poisoning, so posting will be light this week. Fever, chills, sweats, and I haven’t been able to keep down any solid food in over 48 hours. Blech.