I always knew that my management company (or their insurance) would not cover any of my belongings if something were to happen to my apartment. For many years, I never considered my possessions to be of enough value to get any…
Annual debit card spending (in 2009) exceeded credit card spending for the first time in history. I know that we have been consistently moving towards a pay by plastic society, away from paper cash and checks, but was under the impression most of these moves…
Overall, I think that knowing salary information can do more good than harm. I have found that Glassdoor.com does an excellent job of sharing real employee salaries while keeping the employees anonymous. To me, it achieves the goal of knowing this valuable information without invading privacy.
I figured this is a unique holiday season compared to previous years. I was thinking about the likelihood of people choosing to re-gift unused gift cards from last year and risks involved. The re-gifting episode on Seinfeld
As the holiday season approaches, I thought this would be a great time to share the benefits of my favorite airfare tracking site. Last spring, MIcrosoft Corp bought out Farecast.com, a site that monitors airfares to domestic and…
At the beginning of September, the unemployment numbers for August were released. The number of people in the nation that were unemployed and actively seeking work was 6.1% up from 5.7% in the previous month. This level hasn’t been reached…
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the title character, Jay Gatsby, lived in an area known as West Egg. He, like his neighbors, was considered ‘new money’ and worked extremely hard to achieve the riches of life. Across…
