Doug's Methods of Saving Money
I don’t buy things from vending machines anyway, so what should I care if people who use a credit card get charged more? Vending machine prices are the worst kind of retail markup. Far better to avoid the convenience and eat and drink things brought from home. But if you really want to pay for it, you can pay an extra 10 cents — that’s like an additional 6% — for using a credit card.
Just Three More Payments and They’re All His
One of the fun things about live bluegrass music performances is that it seems to be standard practice for bluegrass musicians to include jokes and […]
Power Strip With USB Charging Port Solves Problem of Missing Phone Charger
If your household is like mine, you’ve got cellphones and other devices that need charging, and chargers that seem to “go missing” all by themselves. […]
Edward Gibbon on Personal Finance
While reading Edward Gibbons’ The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire recently, I found two passages that might be taken as person finance advice. […]
Treating a Sprained Ankle
If you think you have a serious health problem, you need to see a doctor. Don’t rely on the internet to treat serious medical conditions. […]
Saving Money With a Bow Saw
Over the past weekend I avoided the convenience of paying someone to cut some low-hanging branches on the trees in my yard. I avoided the […]
What are Stocks? Bonds? Mutual Funds? Index Funds?
In an earlier post, I wrote about index funds and why most of my retirement savings are invested in index funds. Here I want to […]
