Since I’m now in Victoria visiting my sister and her family, my wallet is beginning to fill up with Canadian money. As I stated before, other countries’ money is so much more colorful and interesting than US money…

Michael Stadther is at it again. In 2004 he released a book titled A Treasure’s Trove that had clues hidden within the pages and anyone who could decipher them would find 12 18-karat in gold tokens hidden throughout the continental United States (which could be redeemed for one-of-a kind jewels of the characters in the [...]

If you look at the sign on the top of this gas pump, you’ll see that it reads “…your bank may put a hold on funds up to $100 per transaction for three days no matter what the purchase amount.” When I saw this, it reminded me of a nightmare a friend had with this. [...]

One of the tips you hear time and again in order to save gas (and which I have given) is to reduce your speed to 55 miles per hour when driving. This will save you about 20% on fuel consumption (a 20% return on your money) compared to driving faster. The question is whether or [...]

On this trip to Canada, I wasn’t sure where I was going to be staying the first night. That meant that it was impossible for me to make hotel reservations ahead of time and get any discount connected with that. When I travel like this, I simply want a clean hotel room off the highway [...]

I’m off to Canada for a week - by car. My sister and her family are moving to Victoria on Vancouver Island for her husband’s new job and they have enlisted me to drive their car up to Canada for them (they have a 16 month old baby that would probably make driving themselves a [...]

My sister asked me to help her out today by picking up her husband’s car and driving it down to my mom’s place. In doing so, I hit evening commute traffic that made the trip agonizingly slow (sure glad I don’t have to commute to work here). It also reminded me that people pay $800 [...]

I’ve seen this subject come up on more than one occassion on the best way to get out of a speeding ticket. While I don’t have any direct experience in this area, I know that a speeding ticket can cost a fair amount of money. While most people look only at the actual fine of [...]

I had to send a couple of packages off today and took a walk to the local post office. I like using the stamp machines there because it’s a good way to get rid of extra change without incurring a penalty for doing so. Usually I get my stamps at a 10% discount, but haven’t [...]

I’m surprised that I haven’t seen more pfbloggers write something about this, so I’ll go ahead and give my observations. It was fantastic to see that the Nobel Peace Prize winner (Muhammad Yunus ) this year went to someone who truly made a difference in the lives of people. He did so through giving microloans [...]