The joyous Christmas season begins on the night of Thanksgiving.  Most diets and budgets are forgotten.  Before your turkey and dressing settle on your stomach, most people are out in line or preparing to bum rush the doors of Walmart, Best Buy, and other popular shopping stores.  All eager to grab the latest television, video [...]

I know you’re tired of hearing it but we are in a (doom doom) – Recession.  This is the time when people look to save money anywhere they can.  One of the most common is for you and your special someone to move in together.  On the surface, you would save tremendously.  Instead of two [...]

We recently watched the banks slowly introduce a debit card fee to us.  It started as a pilot with a few Wells Fargo branches.  Then Bank of America, Chase, Regions Bank, and a few others said, “Hey, that’s a great idea!”, and decided to implement their own fee as well.  These announcements were received in [...]

The mighty mighty internet has wreaked havoc on many industries in the past 15 years. Newspapers are closing and reducing circulation daily. Cable companies are losing subscribers in ridiculous chunks. Every mall I walk into looks like a ghost town. Land line telephones are next in line to be added to the Smithsonian’s archives. Only [...]

  Ever since I can remember I’ve always wanted to be super rich.  As a child I wanted to be rich for superficial reasons.  I’d often dream of what my endless money supply would bring me.  Exotic sports cars, extravagant houses, multi-million dollar corporations answering to my every whim, and the social status of a [...]