How to land a secure job

In this day and age, people are always talking about how bad the economy is and how it is making things difficult for them.  I’m not here to say that it isn’t, but to work towards the future.  The past has already happened and I can’t change any of that, but what I can do [...]

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Give for Thanksgiving

As we come to the holiday season, let’s all take a minute and not skip Thanksgiving.  I know all of the stores are advertising for Christmas and want you to buy all sorts of things, but Thanksgiving is an extremely important part of our heritage.  Not only the significance involved in meeting and living alongside [...]

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Discussing your finances

Since I just happen to be the world’s bet communicator and financial guru package all thrown into one ( don’t worry, I am definitely joking), I think we should spend some time talking about discussing finances with your significant other.  This just happens to be one of the big things that couples do fight about [...]

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Talking to people makes traveling cheap

Considering that traveling and exploring is a hobby of mine, I have put a fair amount of time into figuring out ways to do it for less.  The main things that I normally talk about are the main things.  Think about that, it really does make a lot of sense.  Most of the time we [...]

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Dealing with Customer Service

I must say that getting help with customer service people can be quite a challenge.  In fact there are numerous occasions, both good and bad, where I have had to use customer service.  So for starters what I would like to talk about today is that when you are going to talk to someone, you [...]

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Dealing with automated phone service

Every time that I need to get some product help, there is this handy dandy phone number on the back to call customer service.  So being the intelligent customer that I am, I call the number.  What happens next is something that can become a nightmare from the get go if your not ready for [...]

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Celebrate your victories

All of the personal finance websites and other financial help sites out there are pretty good at helping people to learn to control their money in a more effective way.  After you’ve learned to control your money and have done something positive with it, what do you do then?

I, for one, think that you should [...]

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Summer fun

Lately there has been a lot of great weather as the seasons are changing.  With the warm weather comes all of the great outdoor activities that you can do.  From going to parks and walking outside to extreme sports like white water rafting and sky diving.  There are tons of things to do.

Staying active and [...]

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Things you need to know before leaving home

When I first left home, I was headed to college for four years.  I really enjoyed my time living away from my parents at first.  Luckily I was able to eat on campus and didn’t really understand living on your own until I got out of the dorms and into a house that I started [...]

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Imagine Making Money

The human imagination is a very powerful thing.  For hundreds and thousands of years people have imagined things that did or could not exist.  If those people could only jump forward in time to see where we are today, the world would blow them away. 

The thing that all of the inventors and other hard workers [...]

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