I recently came to the realization that I have too much crap. I would normally stress about it for a few days and then forget about it, but since we are planning on moving my office to our unused formal living room we now have to work to clean out both rooms. Most of the [...]

Unless you filed an extension or are one of those kooks that have come up with some justification why the US Constitution doesn’t allow the federal government to levy an income tax, you have probably already sent in your tax return for this past year. If you are unlucky, you may get a nice letter [...]

Ok, if there is one thing that drives me up the wall, it is the voice recognition systems that you now have the navigate through when calling many customer service numbers. Am I the only one who finds the idea of being forced to talk to a machine insulting? It is like they are saying [...]

I spent a good part of this afternoon on the road, so I did something I don’t do very often. I listened to talk radio, specifically the Dave Ramsey radio program. Now, I am not extremely anti-Ramsey like some bloggers. I think Ramsey gives relatively good advice, provided that you understand that the intended audience [...]

I found this story on SmartMoney.com posing the question “What will retirement be like for GenX and GenY?”. For answers, they turned to some people calling themselves “futurists”, which I suspect is another name for the people who spend their every waking moment watching the Sci-Fi Channel. Anyway, their vision of future retirement doesn’t sound [...]

If you know me or have read some of the prior postings on this blog, you will know I do a lot of rebates. Simply put, the types of deals you can get with rebates are just impossible to find without them (when was the last time a retailer let you have anything of value [...]

Just when I thought I wouldn’t have anything interesting to blog about today, I found this comment left on my last posting about the Reservation Rewards scam purportedly from the VP of Customer (dis)Service at Webloyalty.com, the parent of Reservation Rewards. That posting was a follow-up to my original posting here. Dear Bloggers: Webloyalty.com protects [...]

I found this great clip from SNL. The skit is for a book entitled “Don’t Buy Stuff You Can’t Afford”. Absolutely hilarious! Clip found here at Daily Motion Sadly it seems this is a completely foreign concept to most people these days.

MSN recently ran a story naming what they called the Customer Service Hall of Shame. They conducted the poll with the help of the folks over at Zogby after a recent story on the decline of customer service at Home Depot resulted in over 6,000 message board posts. This was their official bottom 10: Sprint [...]

I was reading in the January 2007 issue of the Journal of Accountancy this morning (yes, I realize it is May, I’m just that far behind on my reading) and found an interesting write-up of a study of the savings habits of 25-34 year olds. While the AICPA study found that in the last forty [...]