Personal Finance Advice

I came across this little piece about an ID Theft scam that goes to show that you really can’t trust anyone these days: For Aisha Shahid and dozens of others who went to an advertised job fair in Chattanooga and got offers of nightclub work in Atlanta, Memphis and Miami, the “dream jobs” turned out [...]

Looking for some entertaining reading this week, check out the Business2 101 Dumbest Moments In Business – makes you wonder why you aren’t getting paid big bucks to run a company because you surely could not do worse than some of the moments mentioned… Grand Prize Winner, Dumbest Moment of 2005 – Bubble Trouble “If [...]

The United States Mint launched the New nickel today which is the first circulating coin that features the image of a United States President facing forward. The coins used in circulation have depicted the profiles of presidents in the past. This new image of President Thomas Jefferson is based on a Rembrandt Peale portrait of [...]

I know little about the oil sector, but I do remember watching gas prices spike after Hurricane Katrina and an influx of people to the site looking for information on how to save money on gas. That’s why I read a story at usatoday titled Has Citgo Become A Political Tool For Hugo Chávez? – [...]

Had a great time (where else but in Japan can you get a squid on a stick?) and delivered the prayers to Ebisuten (the God of Wealth). squid on a stick Half the fun is the walk to the shrine and back. The streets are lined with booths for all types of food and games. [...]

Tomorrow I’m off to ebessan (actually later this evening for all of you in the US). This is an annual festival at the beginning of the New Year dedicated to bring good money luck. It’s a three day festival and the news has been showing people throwing piles of money and praying for good monetary [...]

An interesting article on msn by the Christian Science Monitor titled Poverty Now Comes With A Color TV. Well worth the read: “In terms of the items people have … it amazes me the number of people who are at or near the poverty line that have color TVs, cable, washer, dryer, microwave,” says Michael [...]

I’ve always loved finding money ever since I was a kid (in reality, I just love to find “things” – it’s one of the reasons I’ve done well with ebay out here – I genuinely love going into old run down antique stores and rummaging through all their boxes to see if I can find [...]

I was visiting over at All Things Financial when in the comments it came to my attention the the original All Things Financial hosted at blogger was no longer in his possession. Someone else was using it and put up a financial site in its place. I asked JLP why he had done this and [...]

I was wandering around the web looking for more information to add to Cost of Smoking when I can across this article about how Fat Smokers Save You Money. While this really doesn’t have anything to do with personal finance per se (unless you want to count that you are giving the government a lot [...]

I was watching TV tonight and they has a special on a town in the countryside where most of the residents are 65 years plus. The town was dying and there was no income coming in until one of the residents came up with an idea. The idea? Selling leaves. You read that correctly. The [...]

While I have had fun doing this the last few months, this will be the last one of these that I put together. While I enjoy doing it, with the increase in the number of people keeping track of their finances on the Internet it’s getting too time consuming to gather all the data when [...]

There is a tradition in Japan of giving money to children at the New Year. The money comes from parents, grandparents and relatives – and is called “otoshidama.” Due to this money, most Japanese children are excited about New Years like children in the US get excited about Christmas. Most of the time the money [...]

One of the things that I strongly believe is that there are literally hundreds of opportunities just waiting to be acted upon. I just have to shake my head when people say things like “there isn’t anything that I can do.” All it takes to spot the opportunities is to keep your eyes open and [...]

I wrote back on the 20th about our Internet connection finally being fixed after getting the run around for months. I’m happy to report we haven’t had any problems since then with the connection and my wife had a little chat with a representative from the phone company. It resulted in 3 free months (about [...]

I like it when I can dream a bit like this. While the numbers are taken completely out of context with our site being as small as it is compared to the biggies, I read the following at Money.com Based on recent high-profile Web content deals, the value of a unique monthly Web site visitor [...]

I came across and interesting article about the dark side of gift cards and how they are being used by criminal elements to launder money. These aren’t the store brand gift cards, bur the credit card bank affiliated gift cards that can be reloaded with money at any ATM. The problem is that there is [...]

Money magazine is looking for people living in New York to help and interview on the following subjects: Would your family like to purchase a big-ticket item this year — a big screen TV, a new car? Have you not gotten around to choosing a guardian for your kids? Do you need help getting out [...]

We have had a problem with our Internet connection for the last 6 months. Most of the time it works, but there would be periods where it would go out for hours, even days, and we couldn’t gain access. It was frustrating to no end, especially since my job is essentially being on the Internet. [...]

I submitted to a number of carnivals this past week, something that I haven’t done for a couple of weeks becasue I’d been working on some other goals. The carnivals always give a nice variety of reading on the subject and well worth the look if you have some extra time: The Carnival of Education [...]