I always find it interesting the way that people use money. While most of us think that money is used financial transactions, for some it’s also a place to jot down notes, scribble and doodle. I came across this site with photos of stuff people write on money which I found to be interesting. I […]

This news story is for anyone who has ever had a dispute with a bank over a fee charged where they felt they were treated like dirt. While the story takes place in the UK, it will still bring a smile to your face. I still chuckle as I think of the debt collectors walking […]

When it come to recovering zombie debt, debt collection agencies will go to great lengths to try and pressure you into paying back the debt even when you are no longer legally responsible to do so. In fact, it seems that they are now teaming up with credit card companies to try and trick people […]

If you happen to have a Flagstar Bank branch near you, you might want to take a quick trip there and ask them about their 10% 6 month CD promotion. jlvkfyang is reporting in the forums that they are offering this deal and he just opened an CD there. There is a maximum deposit on […]

It’s the con artists’ job to try to part you from your money and they continue to practice their line of work in new ways. One of their latest ploy that is meeting with success and you should be on the look-out for involves sending you a counterfeit check to you for you to […]

If you do shopping on eBay or other online retailers using PayPal, you will like PayPal’s current promotion. PayPal is offering a $15 rebate on a single purchase of $30 or more made before March 31, 2007 at any qualifying retailer that accepts PayPal including eBay. All you have to do to get the rebate […]

I had quite the interesting conversation this weekend with a person who happened to be a former burglar. It was great timing because I was wondering if something like the skid mark underwear for hiding money would really work. I also figured that if you wanted to know the best place to hide your money […]

Sometimes solutions to problems are a lot easier than they would first appear. Take finding a hiding place for you valuables. Conventional wisdom would lead you to hide them away in some hard to find secret location with the hope a thief wouldn’t look there. A better solution would be to find a spot where […]

A friend brought by some old silver certificate bills and asked me how he could exchange them for silver. When I explained that he couldn’t, he said the thought that money was backed by the gold and silver in Fort Knox. While it is true that at one time it was, the US government stopped […]

There are numerous names for them. While widely known as a bounced check they are also referred to as a bad check, a bogus check, bouncing paper, an insufficient fund check, a kited check, an OD, an overdraft, an overdrawn account, a non sufficient fund check, a NSF check and rubber check to name a […]

I mentioned a bit ago about having some checks that I had forgotten to cash and just received this information from Google:
We’d like to let you know that an AdSense check issued to you almost one year ago will soon expire. When it does, the funds will be returned to your account and appear as […]

I absolutely hate when I do things like this. I had a clean up day and ended up coming across a lot of interesting stuff I had stored for years. While that was fun to see, I also came across a few items that didn’t make me happy. Among all the stuff, I found 5 […]

I can see everyone who read that title already shaking their heads. There are a couple of personal experience reasons why I think this would be a good idea and you can all take me to task if you think my reasoning is off base. Before you completely dismiss this idea, hear me out. […]

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 […]

I absolutely hate when I do things like this. I had a clean up day and ended up coming across a lot of interesting stuff I had stored for years. While that was fun to see, I also came across a few items that didn’t make me happy. Among all the stuff, I found 5 […]

If you were looking for signs that the financial world was coming to an end, it would be things like this that would give you pause. I guess I should have seen it coming - credit card companies have been using characters to get people to apply for their credit cards for some time now, […]

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 […]

When it comes to personal finance, there is usually a great deal of discussion on the high rates of interest charged by credit card companies. What credit card companies charge, however, does not come close to what the payday loan companies charge (this is in no way to excuse credit card companies for charging outrageous […]

A bit of humor for the weekend in a clever Thai bank commercial of what horrors can happen if you forget to pay your bills…

Most people know that if you sign up through a friend’s referral you can receive a $25 bonus when making an initial deposit of $250 when opening a new ING account. Both Nate and I used our invites up long ago, as well as going through all our family member’s invites, so when I received […]