An interesting piece over at Mother Jones from last May listing a number of statistics about money that make you pause and think. It’s certainly worth a visit to read them all (over forty), but here are a few that caught my eye:

Oscar performers and presenters collectively owe the IRS $1,250,000 on the gift [...]

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 [...]

It was a few months ago when copper prices rose to the point that the pre-1982 pennies that were made out of 100% copper had a copper content value of more than 1 cent. This week zinc prices reached $1.80 per pound mark (what pennies are made out of today) which means if you melt [...]

I was fooling around with the new Text Link Ads Calculator (we do not use Text Link Ads on this blog, but do use them on some of our other sites) and realized that this gives a peak into the value of personal finance bloggers sites in comparison with others. While the actual numbers [...]

I was fooling around looking at photos at local live when I came across this quite interesting photo which actually caught a small plane flying over Bill Gate’s house (click on the photo to enlarge):

1. Points to Bill Gates house
2. Points out the plane caught in the photo
What are the chances? Catching a plane for [...]

For those that have an interest in why we make the financial decisions that we do, an interesting article on neuro-economics was recently published in the TimesOnline that is definitely worth a read:
Imagine that you are sitting next to a complete stranger who has been given £10 to share between the two of you. He [...]

For those looking for the easiest way to fold a t-shirt perfectly every time, here it is. If I can do this, absolutely anyone can. My wife taught me this (she’s from Japan) when she got tired of my folded t-shirts of all shapes and sizes. Enjoy and pass along!

Kind of hard to believe that I have been blogging here for an entire year. As with a lot of this, time has just flown by. As I seem to do with most anniversaries, I’ve taken a bit of time to sit back and reflect on what was good and what wasn’t so good over [...]

For those of you that have an interest about how the brain affects our decisions in regard to money, you’ll want to take some time and read a thorough (but rather long) article on neuroeconomics in the New Yorker. A few of the observations from the piece:
On people’s dislike of losing money:
During the past decade [...]

Bloggers put together a wonderful tribute to all those that lost their lives in the September 11 attacks that is well worth a visit today. 3,412 volunteer bloggers honored the memories of those who died in the September 11 attacks by each writing a tribute about one of those that died in the September 11 [...]