I hate it when eBay does this - they announce their discounts for listing items a few hours before the day they take place. Of course they do it for an obvious reason - if they announced it any farther ahead, people would just wait until that day to list all their items. So I […]

“You have to think outside of conventional wisdom to break through your debt.” - Dave Hoffman

I wrote back on the 20th about our Internet connection finally being fixed after getting the run around for months. I’m happy to report we haven’t had any problems since then with the connection and my wife had a little chat with a representative from the phone company. It resulted in 3 free months (about […]

It’s another Monday which means carnival time:
The Carnival of Debt Reduction is being held at Savvy Saver this week.
The Carnival of Personal Finance is being held at Mighty Bargain Hunter.
Multiple Mentality is hosting this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists
The Festival of Frugality has been put together by Free Money Finance this week.
The second […]

It’s not often that I get to review books these days - most of the time when publicists find out I’m in Japan it’s no longer worth it for them to send me a book to review, but today I received an advance copy of Jane Bryant Quinn’s book Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for […]

The problem that most people have with saving money is that the go about it all wrong and because they do so, their attempts are bound to fail. This in turn places the image that saving money is not fun and the circle continues without any progress being made.
While I’ve stated that saving money is […]

I was strolling about the other day (I like strolling about - helps clear my head and refresh me from spending too much time in front of the computer) and there were a lot of people out walking their dogs. For some reason I started to pay attention to the way that people walked their […]

I like it when I can dream a bit like this. While the numbers are taken completely out of context with our site being as small as it is compared to the biggies, I read the following at Money.com
Based on recent high-profile Web content deals, the value of a unique monthly Web site visitor currently […]

I came across and interesting article about the dark side of gift cards and how they are being used by criminal elements to launder money. These aren’t the store brand gift cards, bur the credit card bank affiliated gift cards that can be reloaded with money at any ATM. The problem is that there is […]

I think it’s important to bring the lighter side of money out whenever possible so I’m going to begin a weekly “funny money” section. Basically, it’ll be random strange news items I find each week that have a money theme. Hopefully they will bring you all some laughs:
Polite Bank Robber Waits To Get Arrested
School Receives […]