Sign of Improving Times?
Posted on May 25, 2010 - Filed Under Finances, Honesty | Leave a Comment
It must be a sign of an improving economy. Lately, on a weekly basis, there’s credit card applications showing up in the mail again. Offers for free credit reports. Offers to increase the limit on existing credit cards. But no! I don’t want any more cards, they’re evil! They [...]
Read More..>>Summer Ain’t Gonna Be Fun For Some Ppl
Posted on March 19, 2010 - Filed Under Business, Finances, Life, This Country, This Town | 2 Comments
So i hear 4 different ferries are interested in running for Yarmouth and USA – for the year 2011 – but what about 2010 i asked. Well, the customer/s replied – it’s a lost cause right now – sad. Devastating for some i’m sure and for us – we are going to be [...]
Read More..>>One way to reduce a Mortgage Payment
Posted on January 4, 2010 - Filed Under Finances, Insurance, Life | Leave a Comment
One thing you may be able to do to reduce your mortgage payment a little is to get your own term life insurance plan to cover the cost of the mortgage. I think I’m currently paying $33 a month for life insurance as part of my mortgage payment. But even though the mortgage [...]
Read More..>>Finding Money in Real Estate
Posted on October 27, 2008 - Filed Under Finances | Leave a Comment
There’s money in real estate, but like anything these days it’s getting harder to find. I know we’re not in a recession, not yet at least, but things are tight all around for just about everyone. There’s hope for some though, especially mortgage & real estate professionals. In these times of falling [...]
Read More..>>Finding Deals Online
Posted on October 26, 2008 - Filed Under Finances, Internet, shopping | Leave a Comment
Finding good deals online can be easy if you know where to look. www.ExtraDime.com is one of those places where you can find great information on things like banking bonuses, credit card offers or even discounts on clothing. You can browse the ExtraDime forums with the help of their colorful icons, it’s easy [...]
Read More..>>Snap Dollars Actually Pays!
Posted on October 25, 2008 - Filed Under Finances, Internet, Marketing | Leave a Comment
Another check that’s been a long time coming, Snap Dollars advertises that you can get paid to read emails. It’s true, but at 3 to 5 cents per email it can take a very long time to save up the $40 minimum payout amount. You get a $5 bonus just for signing up [...]
Read More..>>Never Ending Bills
Posted on September 29, 2008 - Filed Under Business, Finances, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
It seems like I’m always making insurance payments on one thing or another. I literally just finished paying my house insurance last month and now the store insurance is due. Then in December the car insurance is due. I always do them in installments though, 3 payments per policy so that’s a [...]
Read More..>>Too damn many cards
Posted on June 9, 2008 - Filed Under Finances | Leave a Comment
I’ve been cleaning up my finance stuff lately in an effort to lighten my wallet a bit. I managed to finally finish paying off one of the high interest credit cards and immediately canceled it and cut it to pieces. After that I went through my savings accounts and combined a couple of [...]
Read More..>>Those darn Identity thieves
Posted on May 27, 2008 - Filed Under Finances, Internet, thieves | Leave a Comment
Identity theft is becoming an increased problem these days, you have to be really careful of how you use your personal information whether it’s online, at home or in a regular place of business. It could be as simple as an unscrupulous employee at a restaurant or store copying down your credit card info [...]
Read More..>>Can’t Wait for July
Posted on May 26, 2008 - Filed Under Business, Finances | Leave a Comment
This is that time of year when everything slows down for us. The weather is nice so people are outside getting stuff done; cleaning, gardening, exercising and so on. So it becomes this time of year that we have to tighten down on the budgeting and planning as well, spend less on the [...]
Read More..>>Car Loans
Posted on December 5, 2007 - Filed Under Finances | Leave a Comment
When we got our new car a few years back we got a great rate on the loan direct from Ford, at the time interest rates were insanely low and even today the rates are still good. Even if you have bad credit, or no credit at all, there are still options available to [...]
Read More..>>Me Sell Stuff
Posted on November 28, 2007 - Filed Under Finances, Internet, Life | Leave a Comment
A little side project I’ve been working on is www.mesellstuff.com. Basically it’s working out to be a blog about ways to make money online, legit ways of course. No garbage or bullshit, no scams. This means that no, it’s not a way to get rich quick, it requires real effort. I get asked fairly often [...]
Read More..>>Currency Confusion
Posted on November 23, 2007 - Filed Under Amused, Finances | Leave a Comment
On my usual visit today to the XE.com currency exchange site I noticed something new, a ? in a circle beside the US value compared to Canada. What’s that, I wondered, so I put the mouse over it to see the tooltop popup. Apparently a lot of people have trouble understanding (or even [...]
Read More..>>Checking Accounts
Posted on November 17, 2007 - Filed Under Business, Finances | Leave a Comment
With the popularity of debit and credit cards these days, a checking account is nearly obsolete. Most businesses won’t even accept personal checks anymore, including me, because it seems that the only regular people still using checks are the ones who are going to bounce them. Businesses still need and use checks of [...]
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