One of the things I would have liked to do is to both try and get a loan from Prosper and lend some money through Prosper just to be able to give a better account of how the system works, but unfortunately being in Japan at this time makes doing that a rather complicated issue. [...]
In the last few Financial Challenges, we’ve hit on area such as cable TV, Internet service and long distance phone service where you may be able to find painless savings. Today we are going to take a look at a less obvious monthly charge where you may be able to compare prices and get a [...]
I received an email regarding my earlier introduction post about Prosper.com and whether it would be a good place to consolidate her credit card debt: …I have a little under $10,000 in credit card debt where I’m paying about 27% interest on three different cards. The payments are killing me and I’ve been trying to [...]
Sorry, I couldn’t let this one go and I’m interested in getting the opinions of others on this. Let’s just say that my eyes were rolling a tiny wee bit as I read this article over at msn titled Why the Donald gets all the girls? Why do beautiful women keep marrying Donald Trump? Most [...]
If you ever had a doubt that credit card companies only had their best interest in mind, you can see it clearly in the recent escalation of credit card offers aimed to entice you to put your taxes on your credit card. This includes such cards as Chase offering double mileage on the United Mileage [...]
In the last couple of Financial Challenges we’ve compared rates on cable TV / satellite TV and Internet providers in an attempt to lower the price we pay for these services. One of the wonderful aspects of going after these monthly costs is that if you can reduce the amount you pay, you place more [...]
If you have done eBay auctions for any length of time, you soon realise that Paypal takes quite a bit in fees from your sales, but they have also extended their reach into a lot of other enterprises on the Internet. For example, most of our advertising is paid for through Paypal payments. That means [...]
In the last Financial Challenge we used competing offers to get a better deal on our cable TV / satellite TV. As we pointed out in the last challenge, the most difficult part in many of these Financial Challenges is actually making the call, but this simple step is necessary to get many of the [...]
Another Friday has arrived and to get the weekend off to a good start, here are a few stories from the news that will make you laugh, or more likely, make you shake your head. No matter what, they will show that life isn’t near as bad as the previous week may have made it [...]
Who says personal finances can’t be exciting? Not Hollywood who will be releasing the movie Firewall (with trailer) tomorrow. The movie is about Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) who works for the Seattle-based Landrock Pacific Bank as a computer security specialist. As a top-ranking executive, Jack has built his career and reputation on designing anti-theft computer [...]
