Nate and I had a long talk about our sites and where we want them to go. After brainstorming for awhile, we came up with some great ideas that we feel would add a lot of value to the sites. The main problem is figuring out a way to double our current income so that [...]
It’s another Monday which means it’s carnival time again. This week Boston Gal’s Open Wallet is hosting the the Carnival of Debt Reduction while Frugal For Life is hosting the Carnival of Personal Finance. I have a number of articles submitted (accidentally doubled up on the Carnival of Debt Reduction – I’m working too hard [...]
“Money is only good for a weekday, a holiday, and a rainy day.” – Russian Proverb
I came across a site that is basically bribing their way to a better pagerank by giving away free samples of their tea depending on how high your site’s pagerank is where you place a link back to them. Pretty ingenious although I don’t know how proper it is with google’s search engine guidelines which [...]
“Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.” – Eric Butterworth
I love my credit card. It earns me a free round trip from Japan to the US about once a year. I charge absolutely everything on it to earn the miles. Each year when I receive the renewal notice and the $50 fee, I call the credit card company and politely ask them to waive [...]
After reading my post about the $235 strange food dinner my wife said the other night that I should really give a different perspective of Japanese food to my readers and then told me she had the perfect spot we should go (boy, was that a good set up). So last night we went to [...]
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry Thoreau
It’s been a good week with securing advertising from other websites. I received a second supporting site for this journal this week which is a bit of a surprise. Usually it takes a bit longer to find advertisers that are interested in a site. I haven’t gone into a lot of detail of our overall [...]
I stumbled upon this excellent resource at Paul English that gives an extensive cheat sheet on how to bypass the annoying phone tree you get when you call a company and instead talk with a live person. Nothing is more frustrating when you have a question or need specific information to remedy an issue than [...]
