My mother grew up during the Depression as the youngest of four children and, as a result, she quickly grew tired of using well-worn items. Seventy years later, she still wants to buy almost everything new. When I was a teenager and some of my friends discovered the joy of shopping in thrift shops, Mom [...]
Co-signing on a loan is not something to undertake lightly. The reason that people need you to co-sign is because they have some issues with their credit or otherwise there would be no need for you to do so. And even if they have the best intentions to pay, sometimes things don’t work out as [...]
I had the opportunity to speak at an event. I asked the audience (100 or so people) to anonymously write down a secret money confession. Over the next couple of weeks, I will be posting some of the more powerful of those confessions. This is number 3 in the series: “I don’t believe people that [...]
You Owe The Government Half A Million Dollars: If the government was forced to do their accounting like you and me have to for the IRS, the numbers don’t look good. Each of us owed ove half a million dollars for promises the government has made that aren’t yet funded. The World’s Best Functioning Welfare [...]
The Supreme Court made a huge decision today which will likely hit everyone in the pocket book and it will likely result in some major changes in the retail market in the near future. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that manufacturers are allowed to set a fixed price for their product and forbid retailers from [...]
We have placed a new calculator onto the website: a savings calculator with a small twist. Instead of the standard savings calculator where you place in the number of years, the interest rate, the opening balance and the monthly savings you plan to add, then hit the calculate button to get the answer, we added [...]
A good friend of mine who is an avid DVD collector and very regular customer of Best Buy shared these tips for making sure you get the best deal on all of your Best Buy purchases. Even if you aren’t a Best Buy customer, these tips will give you some ideas for how to get [...]
I recently spoke at an event and asked the 100 or so people in attendance to anonymously write down a money confession. Over the next couple of weeks, I will be posting some of the more powerful of those confessions. This is number 2 in the series: “I lost my job 3 weeks ago and [...]
Familiarity breeds contempt, or so the old saying goes. Stay at the same job for too long, and no matter how much you liked it to begin with or how many good qualities it has, eventually the good qualities can start to pale in comparison to your co-workers’ quirks, your boss’s procrastination, and those other [...]
Advertisers do their jobs well; in fact, they have convinced a majority of us that many of the products we use are necessities when they are not. Long before we had all the modern conveniences we now take for granted, our grandparents and great-grandparents lived comfortably with more basic tools, doing their work differently or [...]
