Nobody likes overpaying for stuff. Even so, many people do it without even realizing it.
The good news is, by getting the urge to splurge under control, it's possible to save significant amounts of cash that can be used to stretch your household ...
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Black Coffee: Carnac and the Cookie Monster
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100 Words On: How to Quit Dreaming and Start Doing
Robert Louis Stevenson said that there can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk. And while that may be true for the dreamers in life, successful people know the world will always depend on doers -- folks who are motivated to follow through and ...
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Black Coffee: The Power of the Purse
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Mailbag: When It Makes Sense to Take the 401k Withdrawal Penalty
I'm a middle aged male, but have very little in my retirement because I never really see myself retiring in today's America. I have around $7500 in my 401k. Should I pay the penalty, which would give me about $4500 afterwards and put this money ...
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Black Coffee: Playing With Fire
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100 Words On: Why It’s Time to Eliminate the Penny
It's been a decade since Canada announced it would no longer mint pennies. That makes a lot of sense; perhaps America should follow suit. In 1913 the once-proud penny had 23 times the purchasing power it does now. Today, the penny is essentially ...
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5 Strategies for Protecting Your 401(k) Savings from Economic Collapse
After more than a decade of the Fed's reckless monetary policies -- in particular, persistent near-zero interest rates and their relentless de facto currency-printing campaign better known as "quantitative easing" -- the financial system has been so ...
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Black Coffee: A Lack of Financial Horse Sense
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18 Bizarre Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About the $2 Bill
Not too long ago I had to mosey on down to my local hardware store because I needed propane for my barbecue grill. The total price for the refill came to $17.96.
At first I tried to pay with a credit card but, for some reason, their machine was on ...
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Black Coffee: More Cowbell
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18 Hacks for Saving Money When Buying Auto, Home, and Life Insurance
Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. And like it or not, planning for the unexpected by being properly insured is a big part of being financially responsible. That's because people who try to save a few bucks by not buying insurance can quickly end ...
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Black Coffee: Pawns on the Chessboard
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Your Personal Finance Horoscope
In order to help my readers divine their nearer-term futures with respect to money and personal finance, I recently decided to try my hand at astrology.
So I studied up, bought some star charts, took some lessons and evaluated the ephemeris as ...
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How Much Should You Pay the Babysitter?
Now that my kids are grown, I no longer have to worry about babysitters.
To be honest, the Honeybee and I rarely used babysitters at all even when the kids were younger because we were fortunate enough to have two sets of grandparents living ...
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Black Coffee: A Junk Food Economy
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100 Words On: Runners and Pedestrians Who Refuse to Use Sidewalks
Go play on the freeway!
While nobody would ever take that suggestion seriously, there are plenty of irresponsible joggers and pedestrians who have no problem tempting fate by literally spending their leisure time on city thoroughfares despite the ...
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How Much Will a Ticket Increase Your Auto Insurance Rates?
Not too long ago I was speaking with someone who told me she got pulled over by a cop on her way to work.
Of course, I offered up the obligatory sympathy. "Bummer," I said. "What did he write you up for?"
"Oh, I didn't get a ticket," she said ...
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Black Coffee: The Long and Short of It
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Mailbag: What Will Happen to Pensions If Hyperinflation Hits the Dollar?
Hi Len, I've been reading your blog for close to a year now and love it! Do you think traditional pension payments will increase in some way during hyperinflation? While anything can certainly happen in the financial chaos, it seems there would be ...
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