As you sleep, when you’re on vacation, when you’re at home and when you’re not, appliances around your house are secretly using small amounts of energy even though they have been turned off. This power usage is referred to as “phantom electricity loads” and depending how how many electric gadgets you have around the house, […]

It’s time again for the weekly round-up of reading from different carnivals and festivals for those looking for some more good reading:
Personal Finance: Million Dollar Goal
Frugality: Money Blog Network

From Post Secret

If you live in New York, check your pennies. According to this ABC report, there are some valuable ones in circulation:
Outside the Nasdaq offices in New York City, Travers dispersed the first of three coins — all pennies — at a food vending stand just this week: a 1914-D Lincoln cent valued at $300.
On Tuesday […]

One of the issues many people come up against when they want to purchase and eat organic or natural food is that it tends to be more expensive than other food not grown and produced this way. It’s also much harder to find discounts for these foods in the form of coupons. It isn’t that […]

MSN Search has come out with a “search and win” promotion to try and get more people to use their search engine. The game is pretty simple. You search like you would normally do so and if you search the correct word combination, a “Use MSN Search…And Win!” link may appear among the regular links. […]

The following piece is courtesy of Wixx and our satellite site Debt Reduction 101. Although some argue that your should alwasy always pay off the highest interest debt first, here’s another side of the coin and an argument that it can be good to pay off your lowest debts first.
Personally I side with paying […]

Roger Sorenson who is the editor at Investing Page put together this little piece on how crazy things can get when speculation takes over a market. After reading it you might think that a similar case could never happen again, but never underestimate the power of perceived easy money and speculation can have:
Popular Delusions […]

Being in Japan, I hear about these contests late - had I been living in the US, I would have gotten myself a brand new Chrysler Crossfire for less $10,000 - that is one of the prizes being given away in the Hershey’s Wrappercash contest. This contest began February 15 and you receive points from […]

It’s shaping up to be an expensive summer at the gas pump and that means it’s worthwhile to go over the numerous little ways you can adjust your driving habits to save money on gas. One of the easiest is to simply slow down when driving on the highway. While it is easy to say […]