Great news for those wanting to list stuff on eBay, starting in June they will be waiving the insertion fee regardless of the starting price for 5 items. This could save a decent amount of money if you choose to list your item at a higher start price without a reserve, since the newly revamped [...]
Today’s economy is tough. Even the billion dollar bank businesses are asking for a hand-out, but with some creative thinking there are ways to save even in these rougher financial times. These 10 tips are meant to be taken half seriously, but could end up saving you a good chunk of change.
Smoking Butts
I saw a [...]
This is a long overdue follow-up to Mike Panic’s Cheapskate’s Manifesto. This time, Mike and I focus on saving you money by cooking at home. Mike already showed you how to get the most from coupon clipping at the grocery store, and hopefully you’ve been able to apply some of his ideas when it comes to [...]
Twitter has grown a user base to such extremes that even my own Mother asked if I was Twittering the other night after she saw it mentioned in an episode of Entertainment Tonight. To my own amazement while flipping through the channels last night, one of the financial shows had a segment called Twitter Time [...]
Time’s are tough on nearly everyone right now, but everyone still needs to eat, wear clothing (optional for some I guess) and have a roof over your head. It seems like every industry has had a spike in the retail cost, and while I’ve already shown you how to clip coupons for more than you [...]
I’m baffled by the fact that three of the major purchases of our lives as adults are ones we often spend very little time thinking about. They are, in no particular order, a car, home and glasses. Two of the three are really spendy and if you think about it, most people decide on them [...]
One would have to live under a rock, in a cave, on mars to have not heard about the $700 billion bailout program Bush is asking for, the press won’t shut up about it. The big 3 auto makers are trying to get their grubby little hands on $25 billion of those dollars so they [...]
The stock market here in the US and most of the world is in the toilet, we all know this. Most of us are unsure what the future will bring and outside of the near 50% drop in gasoline prices, there isn’t much of a silver lining in any clouds over head. Randomn3ss reader Scott [...]
The day after writing my article on How to Save Money This Holiday Season, in which I basically suggested spending as little as possible, a Pulitzer prize-winning writer for the New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman, told us that the best thing we can do for our economy is: “Go Shopping.”
Hmm, I guess this [...]
I’m as affected by the state of the economy as anyone, and it’s caused me to really curb my usual spending for the holidays. I have family and friends all over the country, so I have the added financial burden of having the majority of my gifts shipped - which this year means I [...]