Perhaps you’ve experienced this. You’re going about a typical day at home. You’re catching up on some homework (or housework), playing with the kids, or spending time with your roommates or significant other. Then, you hear this banging in the next room that is enough to wake the dead. Your clothes washer is in rebellion, … Read more
Our primary credit card was compromised. Again. We noticed a spurious $9.84 charge when looking over our Chase Sapphire statement. A quick visit to the website and a bit of Googling revealed the bad news. So we called up Chase, reported the transaction, and they credited it back to us, no questions asked (they’re good … Read more
A friend recently took her family to Walt Disney World over the holiday break, as many families do. (She gave me permission to write about this, by the way.) Hurricane season is over, and, well, it’s cold in a lot of the country. It’s usually not cold in Florida this time of year. And a … 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
There’s no good time for a company to have a financial security breach, but it’s hard to find a worse time to have one than the start of the holiday shopping season. Target confirmed that as many as 40 million credit and debit card holders may have been affected for purchases made between November 27th … Read more
JC Penney’s will be luring customers into its stores with pants priced at under two bucks this holiday season. I do give them quite a bit of credit on that one. Among discounted Blu-Ray players, large screen TVs, and laptops, pants at better than thrift store prices is so … ordinary. But so practical! If … Read more
The least expensive route to taking care of your teeth is routine care. If you keep your teeth clean, floss regularly, and don’t let a lot of sugar (or any!) stay on them for any length of time, decay won’t get the chance to take hold of your teeth. As I’ve written about before, I … Read more
One of the surest ways to lose money in the long run is to play the lottery every week. The more you play them, the more likely you are to meet the overall probability of the game you’re playing. The odds are never in your favor. Regardless of where the money raised from the lottery … Read more