Want to save yourself some serious cash? Stop going to the doctor. This dawned on me over the past couple weeks...as my wife started a new job and one of the things we had to run the family numbers on was health care. Specifically - the HMO? The PPO? Which plan? How much of a deductible? What about all those medications? Joe Cross' film "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead" … [Read more...]
Should You Sign Up for a Pimsleur Course?
Me: "I don't want to go all 'social media ninja' on you, but I will." Them: "You are more than welcome to do so." Earlier this week, we told you about a concept called "Forced Continuity." One of the reasons behind that post is a quite ugly situation we're in the middle of - and one that, barring a company coming to its senses, is going to cost me $256. It doesn't have to be … [Read more...]
Why Your Net Worth Doesn’t Matter
If you were working in the go-go 90s, when every dot-com seemed to rise to even higher heights, you might remember "wealth." Not "wealth" in the sense of real dollars, but more of the paper variety. Where folks were worth millions on paper just because they were at the right place at the right time. Myself, I developed a bit of an obsession with a spreadsheet that told me … [Read more...]
Forced Continuity is the Devil
One of the most evil tricks in the history of online money-making is this... It's called "Forced Continuity," and you've no doubt run into it. The purpose of this blog post is to (1) explain this concept so you know what to look for, (2) call a couple businesses onto the carpet for doing this and, (3) remind you that this can be a horrible business practice that you should … [Read more...]
Stockpile Precious Metals in Your Basement
Oh no...one of THOSE blog posts! Not really. Actually, not at all. You want doom and gloom information, go elsewhere. We're all about keeping it positive. Right? And, for every person who claims the dollar is on the rebound, there's probably a "gold bug" out there who says you should capitalize now, while prices are where they are. Also, timing the market makes little … [Read more...]