I hope you enjoyed the auto-themed posts by my buddy, Tim. He did a great job, and he even threw in a video post in there. Nice job, Tim! If you enjoyed his posts, be sure to contact me with your feedback. I took my wife on a vacation to Cancun, [...]
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30 Jul
Posted by author as Buying Cars, Consumer News, Energy, Free Stuff
I end my three part post party with a reality check. If you were wondering if the end times were upon us, the following should set you straight:
GasforFree.com is your answer to rising pump prices, and will also visually pollute commutes across America. And though I may sound like I am above putting graphics [...]
29 Jul
Posted by author as Buying Cars, Spending and Saving
In between the car commercials that now label each vehicle’s fuel rating, Chevron is running a new ad as a public service to the gas conscious consumer.
Eventually Chevron will be using ten tips for gas conservation, though currently only one commercial is airing.
The tip: Slow Down
Apparently, driving 55 mph instead of the posted 65 mph [...]
The unusually loud portions of my TV watching have had me thinking: Why does every car commercial boast about mediocre gas mileage? My current ride, a ’96 Saturn, is getting better gas mileage than 99% of those in its class. In fact, I did a little research on MPGs using fuel efficiency reports on fueleconomy.gov [...]
Sometimes, I have a hard time thinking of a good charity to donate money. I know there are plenty good ones out there, but I also know there are plenty out there that don’t use the money the way that they should. I’m opening up the floor to you all to enlighten [...]
24 Jul
Posted by author as Credit and Debt, Spending and Saving
If your finances are heading in the wrong direction, you should be able to tell. Free Money Finance has five signs that you’re living beyond your means. The first step to becoming financially fit is recognizing that you need to change your financial habits. If you’re oblivious to the fact that you [...]
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I know, it’s a rough life. This is a well deserved vacation for me and my wife. She just graduated from two years straight of physician assistant graduate school, and I haven’t taken a real vacation from my job in quite some time. We went to Cancun for our honeymoon three years [...]
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24 Jul
Posted by author as Consumer News, Credit and Debt, Economy, Mortgages, Politics, Real Estate
Here is the article from the AP, via Yahoo Finance about the House sailing through a bill to bail out homeowners and the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac institutions.
I love how Yahoo Finance titles it a “rescue” when it should be called a “bail out”. Rescue makes it sound like Congress is doing such [...]
Some of you will go through your entire life being in debt. You’ll always pick up a car loan, always carry credit card debt, and you’ll always move up in house. My challenge to you is stop the debt cycle in your life. Stop the cycle of always being in debt. [...]
Yahoo Finance posted an article from Investor’s Business Daily about investors putting more money into S&P 500 index exchange-traded funds.
This is a good sign, because investors are starting to realize that now is the time to buy domestic stocks. The quasi-recession will be short-lived, and buying domestic stocks at a discount [...]