A cautionary tale for all my readers out there! About a month ago, I received a postcard at my current home address stating that my AT&T long distance plan would begin charging a $4.95 monthly fee starting in June. Besides the fact I refuse to pay monthly fees for long distance on principle, the problem [...]
There is an interesting thread going over at FatWallet Finance discussing the “cheapest” things people do. Some are good frugal suggestions, some are just plain cheap, and others are just plain weird. Here are some of the ones I thought were most questionable: Pooping at work to save on toilet paper. Taking extra condiments and [...]
A piece of college baseball history, as well as my life back home in Louisiana, is now officially history. Last night LSU beat UC-Irvine 21-7 in the final game of the Super Regional baseball tournament at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With the win LSU advances to the College World Series in Omaha, [...]
Here is a cautionary tale from our friend at Debt to Dreams. Our friend was apparently playing the credit card arbitrage game, which is where you take a no/low fee balance transfer at 0% on your credit card and put the money in an insured savings account to earn interest. It is a great game [...]
Blame it on the hard economic times and the growing acceptance of the frugal lifestyle, but the personal finance blogosphere has seen quite a few dumpster diving posts of late. For a group that prides itself on frugality, it only makes sense that we’d see a few postings on the subject. After all, what is [...]
Well, I cleared a little more room in my house last week by selling a bunch of crap on eBay. As much as I hate eBay, PayPal, and their virtual monopoly in the online auction space, I have to admit the results from this round were impressive. Here is the summary: Receipts (net of Paypal [...]
A few months ago I had a little incident in the parking garage at one of my clients. I was coming back from lunch in my car and came upon the gate already open. There was no other car in sight, so I assumed it was stuck open (the garage is also opened to the [...]