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Archive for August, 2006

Making Money: Half.com Part 2

I promised I’d provide an update to everyone on my Half.com experience. Well, on Monday, I listed a total of 44 books. As of six o’clock today, I’ve made 16 sales with a grand total of just over $50. (Trust me when I say that the employees of the West Hollywood US Post Office were […]

Bring Your Spending Under Control

Although not a problem of mine, I understand that some people ascribe to the idea of “retail therapy.” Retail therapy? The term sends shivers up my spine because its precisely this form of “therapy” that gets us further and further into credit card debt. A person has a bad day, so he treats himself and […]

ING vs. HSBC vs. Emigrant vs….

Great post over at Then Things. She has a rant about Emigrant’s process of transferring money into her savings account. I’ve been looking for some useful feedback from others around the blogosphere regarding their online high-yield savings account.
Even though it comes in with a lower APY than Emigrant or HSBC, I’m still a fan of […]

Minimun Payments & Your Credit Cards

Sit down because I am about to state the obvious: Businesses exist to make money from consumers. (Shocking, I know.)
Credit card companies are a business and you, the holder of the credit card, are their consumer. I’ve blogged about how credit card companies make money off of you by charging various fees for varios things […]

Great Warning re: Predatory Lending

Quick note: AllFinancialMatters has a great post about predatory lending.
I’ve talked about how destructive predatory lending can be.

Half.com

I’ve never really been motivated to list my books on half.com, primarily because I don’t think $0.75 for a four year old paperback is really worth my time and effort: I have to list it, I have to wait for it to be purchased, I have to schlep down to the post office and mail […]

David Bach’s Latte Factor: The Key to Millions?

I was reading the articles of The Dollar Stretcher earlier this week and came across Jeffrey Yeager’s “It’s Not The $3 Cup of Coffee.” In the article, Yeager argues that, by giving up the designer coffees each morning, you will not automatically find your path to wealth. And he’s correct. But what Yeager doesn’t recognize […]