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
Our dear 1997 Chrysler Town and Country, Kate, is headed to the glue factory. Or at least to someone else’s care. She needs a new transmission, which would cost $3,500, and a new computer. Then the electrical problems can be diagnosed. This is way more than we want to put into a ten-year-old minivan with … Read more
Today I opened a savings account for my 2 1/2 year old daughter at our credit union. The savings account only pays 1% right now. This is really low compared with online savings accounts, but is above the national average for brick-and-mortar institutions. I thought about this after leaving the bank, but it didn’t really … Read more
We hit a few yard sales and a flea market this morning. There were a bunch of good deals, but space is getting tight in our house, so we have to really have a purpose for the things we buy or be able to “turn the merchandise” quickly. So here’s what we found and the … 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
Because the definition of “everyone else” is open to interpretation. Liz Pulliam Weston’s article on MoneyCentral today is a continuation of her stance that mainstream reports of American indebtedness are wrong on the high side. The big lie about credit card debt, she contends, is that many often-cited figures of household credit card debt are … Read more
A 1894-S Barber dime recently changed hands for $1.9 million. John Feigenbaum, a rare coin dealer in Virginia Beach, VA, escorted the dime from San Jose, CA, to the buyer in Manhattan. The appeal of this coin is not its beauty, but its rarity. Twenty-four were said to have been minted, and only nine are … Read more
This may not be news to some of you but this post over in the SavingAdvice.com highlights this problem: I screwed up Here’s a gentleman who earns six figures (up to $135k) that had $177k in mortgage debt in 1999, and now has double that today. This extra debt is non-producing debt, like auto debt, … Read more