Customer reward programs go by a number of different names: customer loyalty programs, frequent flier programs, shoppers’ club, and so forth. In exchange for some of your personal information and the ability to laser-target their advertising to you by tracking your purchases, you get discounts or rebates on your purchases. Maybe it’s just my opinion, … Read more
(Thanks to Suburban Dollar for including this post in the Carnival of Personal Finance!) Well, my Bargaineering Bucks were burning a virtual hole in my electronic pseudo bank account, so I bid on Gregory Karp’s The 1-2-3 Money Plan: The Three Most Important Steps to Saving and Spending Smart, and won the auction. I was … Read more
Commenter Marlene on my post on how to value gold jewelry asked this: Is 14k Italian gold different in price than gold in the USA? The answer depends on which gold price we’re talking about. Italian gold retail price On the one hand, there is the retail price of gold jewelry. This is what you’d … Read more
This weekend we went to a yard sale at the YMCA. The yard sale was an event to raise money for the Kids’ Spot; people wanting to sell stuff bought a spot within the event, and this money went toward Kids’ Spot. Amongst a bunch of other things we had demanding our attention, we got … Read more
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
Earlier today I was walking around our subdivision with my family. Once around is about 0.6 miles, so it’s at least a little bit of exercise for me. We had walked only a few houses down the first bend when we saw a gas grill and a patio furniture set lined up at the curb. … Read more
A few months back I received a complimentary review copy of Mariusz Skonieczny’s Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? which claims to help you “[l]earn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market. This book was a very easy, quick read, and … Read more
Banking of late hasn’t been much to laugh about, but a couple of days ago I heard a term that gave me a pretty big laugh: frequent flier (n.): a credit union member who makes regular use of overdraft privilege on their checking account. Our credit union currently offers a couple of similar services: overdraft … Read more