Storage Auction Tips
My brother-in-law and I decided to use a good portion of our day off to check out some storage auctions around Houston. Here are a few storage auction tips from our experience.
News/Trends
Fighting Red Light Cameras
As state and local governments struggle to keep up with their reckless spending in this economic downturn, more and more cities are installing red light camera to fine motorists and help bridge the revenue gap in their budgets. It seems like these things are everywhere now, which makes me love this story of how a [...]
Texas Powerful Smart Appliance Rebate Fiasco
As our government continues to find new ways to squander taxpayer money, the federal government provided to the states funds for incentives for energy efficient home improvements. Here in Texas that has taken the form of the Texas Powerful Smart Appliance Rebate, which has thus far been a fiasco of Texas-sized proportions. The program seems [...]
Why being a devil customer is better than boycotting…
I have seen a lot in the blogosphere of late about the “Move Your Money” campaign, which aims to motivate people to boycott the big banks that were the primary recipients of government bailout money and move their business to smaller community banks and credit unions. This has led to a lot of discussion of [...]
Why I'm not renewing personal finance magazine subscriptions…
Anyone who has known me over the years knows that I usually have a lot of magazines laying around my house. However, this personal finance blogger has made a decision that may surprise many: I am not renewing any of my personal finance magazine subscriptions. I have several reasons for doing this besides eliminating the [...]
Seeds: “The Ultimate Barter Item” – Pass the Tin Foil Hat, Please
The actions and proposals of the leftist loonies in Washington has many of us scared for the future, and one of the results of this fear is the rise of survivalism. While I don’t think we are headed for a complete anarchy situation along the lines of “Mad Max”, I do think some common sense [...]
Off-topic: Why government bureaucrats should have no role in health care
I won’t go into a long rant on this, just because this story out of the UK speaks for itself. A premie strong enough to breathe on its own for two hours outside of the womb is deemed to still be a fetus and denied care and dies in his mother’s arms. Premature baby ‘left [...]
Receipts: The tree-huggers’ nightmare
Ever run into the grocery store for milk and bread and come out with a two-foot long receipt for your two items? So have a lot of other folks, including our friends at the Wall Street Journal who did a story on the phenomenon. It seems that retailers have found this to be the perfect [...]
Frugal Living: Fuel for a Libertarian Revolution?
Frequent readers of my blog will know that I am not exactly happy with the huge growth of government we’ve seen of late, so this post shouldn’t come as a big shock. This was inspired by listening to a recent episode of The Survival Podcast, a favorite podcast of mine that discusses various topics related to [...]
Pictures from the Houston Tea Party
I posted earlier about my attendance at the Houston Tea Party, and here are some of the pictures I took from the event (except for the first that was taken by someone else). An aerial view from an adjacent building in downtown Houston. I think that is definitely higher than the 2,000 the NY Times [...]