Archive for the ‘advice’ Category
What to do With Your Stimulus Check
Stimulus payments will start going out next week if you were one of the people who asked for them to be directly deposited into your checking account. If not, then you will get a paper check by the end of May. The real question is what to do with this money. Many people will blow [...]
Weathering the Storm
Yesterday I posted about how the price of so many things seems to be rising. To combat inflation we have to change the way we purchase everyday items. Now some of you are very frugal by nature and have practiced controlled purchasing for a long time. Others, like to purchase whenever it is convenient and [...]
Doing Business with Shady Characters
Are you doing business with a shady character? You may not know it but you probably are. Turns out many of the country’s top corporations are not good at handling personal information and are the main place where ID theft occurs. The Berkley Center for Law and Technology published a paper at the beginning of [...]
Firing Hotmail and MSN
It has been a long run. I first started using Hotmail in 1994. It was the first free web based email of any merit. It ran great on my 2400 kbps dial up modem. Then Microsoft took it over. Ever since then it has been a downhill experience. I recently learned that any e-mail done [...]
Get Off the List
One of the principles I learned in getting my degree in marketing was that you have to have lists. By having large lists with as much data as possible you can market the right product to the right person at the right time. If you use your list effectively people will read or listen to [...]
Investing — Getting in the Water
Now I am not a financial planner. So the advice I am giving here is just my observation and how I would do things. I have talked to my wife about investments that we make and after a long explanation of why I am moving money to a specific mutual fund she looks at me, [...]
Investing — What men and Women can Learn from Each Other
No matter how you slice things men and women are different. We by nature enjoy different activities and interact with each other differently. If you want a good example just watch children play. Boys turn things into monsters, aliens, and guns while girls prefer dolls, princesses, and houses. This fundamental difference also shows up in [...]
Positioned for an Economic Downturn?
My most recent task has been to make sure that my wife and I are ready to take advantage of an economic downturn. You see downturns in the economy always represent an opportunity for those who are ready. I do not know if we are headed for a recession but we have had a great [...]
Find a Friend; Make it a Game
I have had countless people tell me that they just don’t care enough to take the time to get a good price on something. I can actually understand this mentality. Although finding a good deal has always given me something of a high the want to hunt for a better price is not always there. [...]
Never Trust the Oil Change Guy
I am not a car expert. I will never claim to be a car expert. I can usually get a good feel for what is wrong with a car because I have had my cars break down so many times and in so many different ways that I remember the symptoms of different car problems. [...]
