I go to some length to save a buck when possible and I’m sure most of you reading this do the same thing. In our circle it’s not unheard of to spend hours and hours crunching the numbers to discover the best method to save or the best formula to grow that hard earned dollar. […]

Yea I just made that word up 😉 it is properly pronounced smay-veka and means save and/or make… 1. Telephone Wire Shoe Wrangler If you were born sometime between 1844 and 2009, you most likely have seen shoes draped over just about anything possible, be it telephone wires, clothes lines, high fences or even trees. […]

This is the follow up and walk-through promised for making money using BrowserShots.org and the concept of distributed computing. Before we get started, you should read over the previous post describing how BrowserShots.org works. After that, take this as a word of caution: Any requests that come through BrowserShots.org and match your computer configuration are […]

Warren Buffet has always invested in businesses he believes in, companies he values and thinks others undervalue. I’ve always interpreted that as invest in companies you would use and that sell products that you buy, but recently I was reading this article by Budget Snob about unconventional investments that paid off, and I realized that […]

I always like to share any ideas I have about making more money so here’s a pretty unconventional and very geeky method I came across a couple years back but finally got around to putting into action recently. Considering how geeky this method actually is to get started, yet how easy it is to maintain, […]

This is the start of a three part series. The other parts can be found here: Do You Put Your Emergency Fund To Work? – Part 2 Do You Put Your Emergency Fund To Work? – Part 3 Since my bank closed down and I would be moving my emergency fund money over to one […]

One of the first things most people do when they need to make a little extra cash is sell their stuff. This is a great idea and can be really helpful in hard times. And for those of us that live in the digital age, the preferred way to sell things is doing it online. […]