Concept: Gas stations must pay a percentage fee to the credit card company every time you use a credit card to pay for your gas. If you pay for your gas in cash, they don’t have to pay for this fee. They can therefore give you a small discount to reward you for not using [...]
Concept: Advertisers are looking for new ways to reach customers and cars that do a lot of driving have that potential. To hook up advertisers with people who have cars that are willing to advertise, middle men companies will pay you in gas cards to place advertising on their cars. Will You Save Money?: Yes** [...]
With gas prices as high as they are, there are all kinds of gas saving tips floating around. I spent a few hours surfing looking for ideas that people are listing as ways to save money on gas. Here are some of the ideas I found: Gas At The Best Price Advertise Cash Credit Card [...]
It seems that the majority of the wealth coins have vanished en route to their first destination. Even though I have the contact addresses to these people and could email them to ask what is going on, I made the decision when I started this that I would let everything play out on its own [...]
I spent a good part of yesterday trying to come up with a plan to make this blog a better example of what I want. I now have a plan, although I’m not sure how it will work. It is a bit different than anything I’ve seen taking place on other personal finance blogs which [...]
Sometimes a phrase or quote comes along at the perfect time and sticks with you. That happened to me today as I was thinking about this site and how it isn’t what I want it to be: Everyday is a competition between the person that you are at that very moment and the person you [...]
It seems the media is taking shots at Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana for having $90,000 in his freezer and claiming there is a rational explanation: It takes a particular kind of nerve to be filmed taking $100,000 in alleged bribe money out of an FBI informant’s car, have the FBI later find the same [...]
Many people believe that watching TV is one of the most inexpensive forms of entertainment. If you look solely at the costs of the energy needed to run the TV, there could be an argument made for this reasoning. If you look at other factors, however, the TV can be considered one of the more [...]
The God of Wealth coin received it’s first publicity from a non participating member over at the Worker Bees Blog which was much appreciated in getting coins beyond the personal finance community. It seems that the first coins have begun arriving at their destinations. The Everyday Goddess received wealth coin number 3 and took it [...]
Dryers are quite convenient, but they are also an expensive convenience. In fact, most electric clothes dryers use roughly 5 kw of energy which is more than most central air conditioners. If you dry an average of a load of laundry a day, you are paying about $150 a year to dry your clothes. The [...]
