One of my goals over the last month was to stop printing so much. My file cabinet is currently overflowing and I’ve gotten tired of my “To File” piling growing and not actually getting filed.
Of course I can’t stop everyone, like my insurance company, from sending me tons of paper. BTW, why do insurance companies [...]
A post over on Consumerist kicked off a firestorm of rebate debates. I fill out a lot of rebates (over the last couple months I’ve received 3 free computer cases and 2 free computer power supplies) and overall have had very little trouble with rebates. I tend to take my time filling out the forms [...]
Looks like postage rates are going up to 41 cents in May. They’ll also be releasing forever stamps, which will always cover the first class rate. I’m guessing someone will find some crazy arbitrage opportunity using those…
Here’s a short list of the new rates that MSNBC put together:
The rates taking effect May 14 include:
Letters, bill payments, [...]
Last Thursday we had a terrible windstorm. Gusts were 60-70mph in some areas causing many large trees to go crashing through powerlines. We ended up being without power for 59 hours– the longest I’ve ever had a power outage. Some people are still without power today (almost a week!).
Of course, even after the power came back [...]
Laura Rowley a columnist at Yahoo! Finance has an article about how married people are almost twice as wealthy as single/divorced. Here are a couple statistics from the article:
Married are 93% more wealthy than single/divorced
Divorced saw wealth string by 77%
Married have 4% boost in wealth each year just from marriage
Two-person family only spends 1.8 times [...]