My wife loves to sleep, or at least that’s what I used to think. She tends to sleep as much as possible any day of the week. On the weekends she can sleep in till 2 in the afternoon. I always felt this was excessive and we’ve fought about her wanting to sleep so much many times in the past. I am an early riser but have a lot on my plate so I’ll stay up till late in the evening, get up bright and early and feel great all day long. I have lots of things to do [...] Continue Reading…

If you have a radio I’m sure you’ve heard the radio commercials for Auto Assure. They go something like this, “Why pay for costly repairs when you can let Auto Assure pay them for you, use any mechanic you like and keep your hard earned money?”

Sounds great, doesn’t it? The commercials don’t really make clear what the company does exactly so I’m here to tell you my thoughts on the company and what they do.
What is Auto Assure?
Auto Assure is essentially the combination of an extended warranty and an insurance policy. They have different plans you can choose from [...] Continue Reading…

One year ago Today, Amazon offered me an Amazon Prime membership free for one year based on my student status. I took that free membership and decided to test out Amazon Prime. Here is what I found.
Free Shipping
I’m already partial to free shipping. If I can have something purchased online and shipped to a store, I will always take that option. I don’ know what it is about shipping charges that just make my skin crawl but I’d much rather pay $50 for something with free shipping than pay $45+$5 shipping fee. The biggest perk of Amazon Prime is [...] Continue Reading…

I noticed this post over on Couple Money (after I read my own guest post there titled Find Deals on Diapers ) and thought I’d get in on this action. I of course have given some hard thought about what I’d do with a million dollars and since my mind tonight was swimming with some very deep subjects  that I couldn’t sort out or decide on which one to write about, I thought I’d make Friday laid back like it should be. Here’s the breakdown:
No more Debt! (-$310,000)
Obviously the very first thing I’d do with my million is pay [...] Continue Reading…

The mind is such an amazing thing. It’s much like any other muscle in your body and never stops changing but if you don’t exercise it, just like any muscle, it will get weaker and cease to function. Today much of what previous generations minds were used for is done by computers. That’s great right? It lets us do a lot more important things with our minds since we can let the computers do all the leg work but that legwork, mathematics, problem solving, visual stuff that the computers do for us exercises a different part of our minds [...] Continue Reading…

In the past year the Android operating system has gained considerable traction in the smart phone market. It’s main competition, as well as the dominating factor in the smart phone market is the iPhone’s IOS now in it’s 4th and soon to be 5th iteration. Both of these systems are very unique and have their own strengths as well as flaws. Almost every day I’m asked to explain the difference between these devices and help users that I support at my job as well as friends and family decide on which type of device they should choose. I don’t [...] Continue Reading…

Last week I read an article on the Times online that was titled, How to boost your spending power and this title really disappointed me. Although the Times is not necessarily a financial geared publication, it is a national news source and I feel this article is telling the public to do exactly the opposite of what they need to be doing.

Reading the article, the tips were more about saving money but for the wrong reason; so that you could buy more stuff.

The first sentence in the article reminded me of a statistic I had read recently about the [...] Continue Reading…