My cell phone is on its last legs. I have to insert the phone very carefully into the charger now, or else it won’t charge up. For the nine (or so) years I’ve used a cell phone I haven’t upgraded as soon as my provider would allow me to. I did feel a little bit … Read more
Who wants to be a millionaire? Well, J. Money does, for one. Not only does he have his own millionaire club with a swanky gold leafy discus logo … but he’s crunched the numbers and he thinks that it can happen on just five bucks a day. Granted, that’s $5 a day for 40 years, … Read more
A friend from our previous church sent me an e-mail tonight. Because we’ve been buried in 1.2 miles of snow for the past few days, she had the opportunity to pile through some projects. She had just gotten to a pile of stuff she had been meaning to sell for quite some time, and e-mailed … Read more
(This is a guest post from Kris Bickell. For more tips on getting out of debt and turning around your financial situation, visit www.debt-tips.com. You’ll learn the actual debt elimination tips he used to get completely out of debt.) If only money grew on trees … life would certainly be easier! But of course, it … Read more
This economic downturn hasn’t been kind to a lot of people. Jobs that haven’t been taken away from people have had their hours cut, their workload increased, or their cost of living allowances taken away. Jobs that people used to be able to count on are on very fragile ground. If this US Debt Clock … Read more
“Turn up the signal; wipe out the noise.” -Peter Gabriel Too many of my projects are laughing at me. Here’s how I’m trying to shut them up. The analogy is signal processing. With only a few important projects and sources of information (signal sources) it’s straightforward to handle them all. But bring in dozens, or … Read more
My wife is designing, and making, a quilt for a competition. A couple of days ago she did a wholesale change of the design. When I asked her if it what she had planned to do was just too difficult, she told me, “Pretty much everything I did, the quilt was laughing at me.” She’s … Read more
Businesses need to do everything in their power to weather this downturn. It should be a great time for customers to get great deals because of this: they need to keep the cash flowing in. Customers should expect deals, and they should be treated with respect, because customers can go to a competitor. Some businesses … Read more