Flexo has a good post on ticket scalping, a subject I have thought about a lot but never blogged. To follow up on his thoughts, here are mine. It sucks to want to see a show or sports event and......
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It's fun to spend money. Yes, it's satisfying to save money, and rewarding to invest it wisely and watch it grow. But it's FUN! to spend it. But only if you spend it on something fun....
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Apple just cut the price of an iPhone from $599 to $399, meaning that those who bought last week paid about 50% more for their phones than those who buy today. Everyone knows the price of technology...
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A lot of people these days have ditched checks in favor of debit cards. Others have ditched their credit cards in favor of debit cards. While I understand this puts me in danger of sounding like an...
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I saw this Bloomberg article yesterday talking about the possibility of us seeing $4 per gallon gas in the near future: Gasoline inventories, measured by the days of demand they will cover, are at the...
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Have you seen this Visa Check Card commercial in which a bustling lunch spot moves in a fast-paced yet orderly fashion, with each buyer quickly and easily sliding his/her Visa check card through the...
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The holidays are over and, if you're like most of us, somewhere along the way you got a gift card or two. It's nice to get gift cards. You get to buy whatever you want, and you don't have...
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I came across this article from the Des Moines Business Record titled "Credit cards not accepted." The article profiles businesses in the Des Moines area that don't accept credit cards...
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I just got back from the dentist and while there picked up some replacement gel for my teeth whitening trays that I had made a few years ago. I think the trays had set me back about $300 and the......
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If you ever read any other personal finance blogs other than mine (and you don't, do you?). you would find that a common theme is how to live frugally, especially among the many twentysomething...
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Last year my wife and I had to do a little belt-tightening, and we found that one of our largest line items was gift buying. With small children, the gift buying has gone up exponentially. Not only do...
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Soon enough, we'll all have HDTVs, whether we want them or not. Those of us that don't care about HDTV will eventually be dragged kicking and screaming to it, just as many of us ended up...
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A guy I used to work with invited me to his Halloween party one year. When he answered the door he was wearing a white leisure suit, sort of like Don Knotts used to wear when he was on Three's......
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In the depths of winter last year, it took over $500 per month to keep us warm thanks to skyrocketing natural gas prices. As the days get darker and the chill starts to creep in in the parts of the......
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A few weeks ago I worked myself up into a lather about tipping, and how it's impossible to know when you're "supposed" to tip and how much. Catching up on my reading at the...
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Cox Communications is my cable company and my cable Internet provider. I read some bad stuff about Cox, but normally their services are pretty reliable and I don't have an issue. But Heaven forbid...
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Remember when Pearl Jam tried to take on Ticketmaster about 10 years back because of Ticketmaster's outrageous service charges on tickets it sells? Pearl Jam lost, and the "convenience...
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Yesterday this New York Times article asked a question I've often pondered, "Why do the rich go broke?" The answer, somewhat predictably, is that their raging egos make them believe they...
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A new condominium called The Atelier, on West 42nd in New York City, is accepting American Express for down-payments. Based on the info in this article, these condos, which are still being built, are...
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In today's edition of the New York Times, David Leonhardt's article "Distractions and Bargains Bought in Bulk" questions whether consumers get fooled into thinking they're...
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My family and I ate out this weekend and had lousy service. It wasn't that the waitress was bad--on the contrary, she was pretty good, but the restaurant had her working a ridiculous number of...
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