Archive for the 'Personal Finance' Category

Since both political parties believe they have the unrestricted right to tax you to death and every which way but loose and they merely differ over the exact amount of suffering they wish to inflict, what exactly might your taxes be under President McBama?
Here’s an online tool to help you predict what those taxes actually [...]

I about screamed when I went to my grocery store the other night. I just ran in for a few quick things and the food bill was $50.90!
I went through the automated check out line and the machine asked me for coupons. Boy I wish I’d had some coupons with me. They would have [...]

Michelle Dunn has some tips on collecting money in a down economy and shows some clever, if annoying stickers.
When I was out in Montana, a small local cafe and wi fi hotspot listed the names of people who had to “pay their tab” before they could do more business there.
When I was doing consulting, I [...]

If you’re worried about Identity Theft, you may want to know about this site, SSNBreach.org.
According to the “About page”
This website is a free national registry of personalized data breach reports. Though it only covers a small percentage of the total number of reported breaches (roughly .2%), your Personalized Identity Exposure Report measures severity of personal [...]

If you drive for your work at home business activities, here’s some good news.  As of July 1, you can now deduct 58.5 cents per mile… up 8 cents per mile from the amount deductible from January through June!

I don’t have any domains with Yahoo these days. This really is unbelievable and another way of saying “We don’t want your business!”
As seen on Web Worker Daily: Yahoo Raises Domain Renewal Price to $34.95
It’s unbelievable really. Hopefully you’re not being hit by this price increase. If so, change to one of many others.

Here’s how one work at home mom is coping with the rising gas prices… increased coupon use among other things. How about you?
From KCCI Des Moines
Nora:  I am a work-at-home mom, my husband is a trucker (he drives for one of the major trucking companies so he does not have to pay for the fuel)…….yes, [...]

There once was an entrepreneur who didn’t trust the banks… they’d always failed.
So when he started making real money in the post Depression era, he instructed his accountant never to keep a bill over $5 because it was less likely to be counterfeit. Also, the accountant was to keep lots of silver dimes so that [...]

When the “normal” economy is causing a financial pinch, people turn to folks who have developed their own methods for surviving without lots of cash. In this case it’s the Amish.
This reminds me of a family I know who got started in business just this way. They started buying “bents and dents”… often from insurance [...]

First it was the Locavores who wanted locally produced food. But today’s headlines shows that growing food in your spare backyard space may really help you make or at least SAVE money.
Fuel prices are causing grocery costs to skyrocket: Era of cheap food ends as prices surge this article reads. My mother in law [...]