I don’t travel much at all. I’m very much an infrequent flier. (It’s the main reason I use a rewards credit card that isn’t tied to an airline. I sacrifice effective cash-back rate, but I know that I’ll use the rewards.) I got my airline ticket with Travelocity (check rebates) and had absolutely no intention … Read more
The blog A Young Pro had this year-old article in his Twitter feed recently. The title: “When is it Okay to Spend Money?” (link broken 10/2014) He recounts the story of a really bad week with his car. He gets in an accident, and then locks his only set of car keys in the car, … Read more
As humans, we’re very good at putting on appearances, even when they don’t match our reality. If we have a lot of money, we can appear as if we don’t. If we are just scraping by, we can “put on a good show” and try to appear more affluent than we are. Unless your neighbor … Read more
Discount cigarette stores are one of the more popular types of businesses to come into our county these days. I think our county has at least five of them now, which for a county of less than 30,000 people seems a bit high. Two friends of mine have already expressed that we have too many … Read more
In the middle of last month, a maintenance power outage caused the Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system to go down in 17 states. One side effect of this was the disappearance of spending limits on the cards at checkout. Xerox, the company in charge of those servers and for providing EBT services to state governments, … Read more
I didn’t know that there was a term for “buying a piece of clothing with the intent of returning it after wearing it for one evening.” It’s called wardrobing and it apparently cost stores nearly $9 billion last year, according to the National Retail Federation. Bloomingdale’s is taking matters into its own hands to combat … Read more
Odds are good that you’ve heard of NBC’s Million Second Quiz, which is about half over now. If you haven’t, the premise is simple: The quiz is a million seconds long. You earn money by sitting in the Money Chair. You get into the Money Chair by beating the person in the Money Chair at … Read more
MSN.com has a slide show on 100 ways to save money in 2013. There are a lot of good ways to save money but the one on slide 18 is not good. It recommends not paying for music If you’re a music junkie, you probably download the latest and greatest songs from iTunes without a … Read more
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