Personal Finance Advice

We have four cats as my wife has a habit of collecting strays she comes across and she treats them like they are her own babies. What that means is that she spends quite a bit of money on cat toys, a lot of which is wasted because although we think the cats will like [...]

I walked into a store the other day and when my eye caught hold of this I thought, “wow, that is some funky looking phone:

As I approached closer I saw that it was anything but a pay phone. It was a device that allowed you to recharge the battery of your cell phone, computer or [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if you could get paid to be green? That is the concept behind RecycleBank where people in Philadelphia (PA), Gloucester County (NJ) and Wilmington (DE) are getting paid to be green. While limited to these small areas today, there are plans to expand to the point where one day the opportunity [...]

I’m back in Japan, spent most of the weekend unpacking and trying to get my Internet connection up and running. Those issues have been resolved so it looks like I can get back to writing.
Those of you who read this blog when I first started probably remember that before I was doing this full time, [...]

There is going to be a significant lack of posts this week (probably none) because I am once again heading back to Japan to live. While this wasn’t a planned event, one thing that you should always expect from life is that there are going to be a large number of curve balls thrown your [...]

Plain and simple, razor blades cost a lot of money. While the razor itself doesn’t usually cost all that much (many times they can be found for free), you still end up paying quite a bit to shave because razor companies work a lot like computer printer and ink companies: once you have the razor [...]

If you are going to be in the San Francisco Bay Area next week, then you’ll want to pick up some free tickets to the Exhibition Floor of Apple’s MacWorld Conference & Expo San Francisco 2007 at the Moscone Center from January 9 - 12, 2007. Normally the exhibition floor tickets cost $45, but if [...]

2006 certainly was an interesting year. While we fell short in a lot of goals that we initially set, overall it was a good year and nothing to complain about. Many of the goals fell short due to us changing our focus as time went on so while we didn’t meet them, this was not [...]

Why would anyone want to get bumped of a flight? Because there is money to be made in doing so…By doing a small bit of planning, an hour delay at the airport could be worth several hundred dollars off your next trip.
While many people were watching all the people stranded in the Denver airport before [...]

Had to smile when I saw this:

Courtesy of blakefacey