Archive for the 'Personal Finance' Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

To try to curb astronomic health costs, Health Savings Accounts are something that should be encouraged. The so-called “Tax Payer Assistance and Simplification Act” (which isn’t either of course) contains an all out attack on Health Savings Accounts which prompts threat of a Presidential Veto. “The Administration strongly opposes H.R. 5719, the so-called “Taxpayer Assistance [...]

If people are really “Trading parking passes and briefcases for bunny slippers and laptops” I’ll wager that in most instances it’s not a willing trade. The “subprime lending crisis” aka “We made hay while the sun shined and now we hope the taxpayers will bail us out crisis” is sending lots of bank workers out [...]

This article is about Hedge Funds buying bonds for pennies on the dollar. But it applies to lots of situations… foreclosures, etc. What looks like a pretty good deal right now might be vastly overpriced if the situation continues to deteriorate. Sophisticated investors aren’t emotionally attached to deals so they make their choices based on [...]

Lifelock is being sued by Experian. It looks like another attempt of the big credit bureaus to preserve their profits while attempting to avoid policing the fraudulent use of consumer data as identity theft increases.  Lifelock represents these clients but the big credit information bureau is attempting to keep the company from filing fraud alerts [...]