All the festivals and carnivals for this week if you’re looking for some extra reading:
Vanities: Free Money Finance
Frugality at Canadian Capitalist
Capitalists at Business Opportunities Weblog
Debt Reduction at Wandering Indian Monk
Personal Finance at My Money Blog

An article titled Men Don’t Buy Tampons which relates how her husband ended up spending about a hundred dollars for a $3 box of tampons (a very funny read that I can relate to having endured the stares when asked to do so in Japan) lead Baselle over at Baselle’s Financial Diary to come up […]

Spring is in the air and the cherry blossoms are beginning to bloom. That meant that we had to go out for cherry blossom viewing and none of this casually walking around viewing - my wife wanted to get dressed in her best spring kimono (with cherry blossom obi) to go out and view them. […]

Whatever you buy to drink when you’re outside the home, you’re most likely paying more for it than you should be. While you have probably heard a million times it’s less expensive to bring your lunch to work rather than purchasing it, you may not have considered the effect of purchasing drinks while away from […]

I received a letter from a reader regarding my post about my wife’s hobby / business saying that he didn’t believe that a Hello Kitty plush (stuffed doll) would sell for more than $150. He made it specific that it couldn’t be a group of Hello Kitties, but a single plush.
…I found your post funny […]

We finally have a new look for the satellite sites. It will be interesting to see the effect that the new design has as we have added more advertising than we had before. Hopefully this in addition to adding the managers, we’ll see an increase in both traffic and profits from the sites. You can […]

You probably are aware that the advertising we see on TV is trying to influence you into buying a certain product. What you might not be so aware of, however, is that the advertising is also trying to influence the amount of the product you use.
The classic example on how what we see on […]

Well, I couldn’t pass up this opportunity. Bill Gates wrote an article appearing on Money.com titled How I Work: Bill Gates As you can imagine, Bill and I work a tad differently so I thought I would go through some of the differences:

Bill Gates’ Desk
photo by Robyn Twomey from money.com
From the article, here is a […]

Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) fees are nothing more than a convenience fee, much like paying more money for food at your local convenience store. While most people realize that it doesn’t bode well financially to do all their grocery shopping at a convenience store, many see no problem at all using ATMs whenever and wherever […]

I believe that the best investment you can make is saving money and the easiest way to do it is through a simple investment plan. Part of that plan is using index funds to invest in stocks rather than managed funds. It seems a new report further confirms this as it seems that managed funds […]

With taxes due just around the corner, you have (or soon will) find out whether you’re paying or receiving a refund. While a large tax refund is fun to get, it’s also an indication that you’re not having the correct amount withheld from your paychecks.
When you receive a large tax refund, what you’re basically […]

For a lot of pfbloggers and those that read us, the goal seems to be $1 million in net worth (or net worth minus housing). For those trying to attain this goal, you might think that wall street investment companies would be interested in helping you invest. According to Market Watch and a new study […]

Looking at the numbers for March we knew that we needed to make some adjustments to our building of additional sites. While a few of the sites are quite performing well, the majority of them are not. What we’d ultimately like to have is 50 sites each earning a minimum of $50 and while […]

A quarter of 2006 is now gone and it’s time again to take a look at the goals I had and how I have been progressing toward them, but before we get into that, April was the big decision day. At the end of last year Nate and I made the decision to have me […]