Gas prices

I put some gas in my tank this afternoon. Regular unleaded was $3.92 (and 9/10).
Who’d have ever guessed that someday we’d consider $3.92 cheap?!

Budget vs. Lifestyle

Let’s talk a little about budgets and income.
Your budget (and you do have one, right?) consists of:

Income
Expenses
Savings

In a zero-based budget, no income goes unaccounted for.
[ Income - (Expenses + Savings) = 0 ]

Let’s say you’re cruising along with your nice zero-based budget, and suddenly your income goes up? Let’s say you get a raise or [...]

Economics 101– Part 1. Scarcity and You

Economics?! Gross! Who wants to read about something so dry and dull as economics?
Keep reading, friend. You might learn something relevant to your life.
Part 1. Scarcity and You.
Let’s say you have twenty dollars in your pocket.
Let’s say that twenty dollars is all you have until next payday.
Now, what will you do with your twenty dollars?

Do [...]

Shameless Verizon commercial (you guys don’t really believe this stuff, do you?)

Earlier this afternoon, I heard a radio commercial that made me shudder. I tried to find a clip of it online to post here, but couldn’t. I’d love to share it with you.  Maybe you’ve already heard it, or will soon.
And hopefully my fellow listeners were able to engage their critical thinking skills. A serious [...]

Is your sense of entitlement making you poor?

I remember my dad often saying of my sister, “She’s got a big a$$.”
He didn’t mean that she literally had a large rear end, because she most assuredly didn’t. No, this was his vulgar way of saying she saw herself as a princess. You see, a lowly chair wasn’t enough for her; only a throne [...]

The irony of WALL-E

Ever since I saw the first WALL-E teasers and trailers online months ago, I’ve been dying to see the movie.
I suppose that’s effective marketing, and I fell for it.
Once the initial “awwwww, how cute” factor was established (the robot WALL-E is an adorable cross between Spielberg’s ET and Short Circuit’s Johnny 5, with a vague [...]