Currency hunting is a fun, low-cost hobby with very little downside. I liken it to playing a lottery where you always at least break even. If you look a dollar bill over and there’s nothing special about it, you still have a dollar bill that you can spend! It’s a no-lose situation. My Cool Serial … Read more
If you hunt for fancy serial numbers on dollar bills, the large majority of them will be “spenders,” also known as bills with ordinary serial numbers. Here are some ways to unload them if you’re not a big cash person … One thing is true with any treasure-hunting endeavor: You’ve got to pick through a … Read more
In this post I answer a few reader questions on specific dollar bills with their errors and serial numbers … First off: Thank you for reading! I’m glad you’re here! With tens of thousands of blogs hitting the web every single day, I appreciate you visiting mine! I’ve received a few reader questions on dollar … Read more
While some people think that it’s crass to give gift cards or cash as presents, I’m just fine with it. A gift card can show thought just as much as any other gift, especially if you know what the person likes and can give a gift card to a store that they like. And if … Read more
A cash-only budgeting system can be the ticket to reining in spending and getting away from the temptation of credit cards. The idea is this: Pull out the total of your weekly (biweekly, monthly) budget in cash. Separate the cash into envelopes by category according to how you’re budgeting that money. Spend down the envelopes … Read more
Gresham’s Law now has small business backing. There’s a fair bit of activity on eBay buying and selling 95% copper cents, and the coin sorters to distinguish them from the newer zinc variety. Why the interest, you might ask? It’s the copper content of the cents that’s interesting. These high-copper cents, minted for part of … Read more
Fresh after posting on whether small credit card charges are shameful or otherwise to be avoided, I got a comment on that post. “Paul” asks: “Wasn’t a provision of the financial reform bill that passed this July that store owners are now legally allowed to not accept a credit card charge for less than $10? … Read more
In what seems to be an annual holiday event, Liz Pulliam Weston expresses her dislike of gift cards. This year though, there’s cause for her celebration, as one study predicts that consumers will purchase $4 billion less in gift cards this year than they did last year. This is a decrease of over 4%. After … Read more
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