Congratulations to Barack Obama for winning the office of the most important and powerful person in the world. He wasn’t who I voted for, but it is truly a historic time to be alive to see the first African-American president of the United States. I know that one issue many are concerned about [...]

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Great LCD TV Sales This Week

Westinghouse 37″ 1080p LCD TV from Buy.com for $570
Samsung 1080p 40″ LCD TV w/ 500,000:1 contrast ratio! by Vanns.com for $1200
Toshiba REGZA 46″ 1080p LCD TV w/ Cinespeed by Newegg.com for $1170
Phillips 42″ 1080p LCD TV
by Newegg.com for $999.

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Lines are long to vote today, but there are a few companies trying to make it a little easier for you to vote today. Starbucks is giving out a free cup of their original brew coffee. The corporate owned Krispy Kreme stores will be giving out star-shaped glazed doughnuts. Also, Ben & [...]

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Show Your Patriotism Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the pinnacle of the most important election of our generation. The best thing you can do is make an educated vote. Don’t go vote just because Leonardo Dicaprio told you to vote. Don’t just vote because Diddy says “vote or die”. Don’t vote just to vote.
If you [...]

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If you’ve got 20 million pounds, which translates to about $35 million bucks, you can buy Saddam Hussein’s yacht. The yacht was built in secrecy by the Iraqi government specifically for Saddam Hussein in 1981. The broker that will be auctioning off this yacht say that it will take as much money [...]

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Here’s a tip for next year when you’re thinking about buying a jack o’ lantern for Halloween decoration:
We procrastinted buying a pumpkin up until today, but we still wanted to get one because the trick-or-treaters need some kind of indication that we’re a Halloween friendly house. So, I went over to the [...]

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Here’s a cool article on Yahoo Finance about Madison Dupaix from the blog, My Dollar Plan. It’s her personal story about how she saved enough money so that she doesn’t have to work full-time. The article is a little misleading, because she says that she has “retired” from her day job, but it [...]

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Check all of your kid’s candy before they eat it. My parents always did this and I thought it was lame. But, one time they found a candy bar unwrapped in a plastic baggy. Sounds a little shady, don’t you think?
Check the material your child’s costume is made of. Costumes [...]

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A Money Crasher’s reader recently sent me a message about a credit card balance in collections. I thought that you all would benefit from his/her question and how I answered it.
Question:
I have a credit card debt of a little of 8,000. It went to collection, and I just don’t have the [...]

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When I was a kid, if I was at the store with my mother and I pointed to a big ticket item that I wanted, she woud reply, “We’d have to put that on layaway to afford that!”. I didn’t really know what “layaway” was, but then she explained it to me when I [...]

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