Sixty-three-year-old Winnie Shilson, now a grandmother of six, was fired after working in Taco Bell and other preceding chains for thirty years. Her career was that of a dedicated employee, and was by many accounts exemplary: After 30 years, Taco Bell didn’t even offer her any hot sauce Then in the final two years, a … Read more
Did you miss me? I sure missed me. I was down for at least 130 hours — over five days. (Not that I was counting or anything.) Why was I down for this long? It would be easy to blame my web hosting company or blame lousy customer care, but I’m not going to do … Read more
EBay’s search function is a useful tool for buyers to locate auctions of interest. It will even search for plural forms if you enter the singular form in the search box (listings containing “dimes” will show up if you search for “dime”). But if the seller misspells a key term in the title, a lot … Read more
We hit a few yard sales over the Labor Day weekend. Here’s what we found: A bread slicer for $2 (my wife swears that she can’t cut a good piece of bread from a loaf). A quart of oil for 50 cents (one guy beat me to six others by about a minute). A bunch … Read more
Well, that didn’t last long. I was all sorts of pumped that the discount grocery store in our area had opened its doors again. Only a few months later, it’s out of business again. The last day was Friday, and they sold everything at 75% off. For already discounted merchandise, this isn’t bad at all. … Read more
A friend at work fixed up and rented a property in Maryland. He was telling me about the improvements he did, how he saved a lot of money by finding deals on good materials and doing what work he could himself, how he did the fixing up properly to code, as well as some of … Read more
Matt Murphy is the courageous fan who survived being squashed by a pile-up of about 30 people and emerged with the ball that Barry Bonds hit to break Hank Aaron’s record for career home runs. Quite a souvenir from a baseball game! Probably a six-figures kind of souvenir. One that may be taxable income even … Read more
A friend a few years back convinced me to join MyPoints, which is basically a rewards program for reading e-mails, filling out surveys, and participating in offers. The really lucrative point payouts are triggered when you buy through merchants, but there are also a steady stream of small point offers that trickle in just for … Read more