It only takes about one minute and think of all the paper you can save! Go to YellowPagesGoGreen and provide your address and information to opt of receiving those pesky phone books (they would always just pile up until I had about 3 or 4 when I would finally say too much and throw them [...]

So when can a recession (perhaps?) and decreased consumer spending can be a good thing?  When it means great deals!  In the event that stores can’t sell their inventory, they lower the prices on items (basic supply and demand–less people spending money means prices must decrease to compensate).  Being a big fan of online shopping [...]

Part of the reason I chose to open my IRA at ShareBuilder was that there has been a stock I have been wanting to purchase but didn’t want to shell out the whole purchase price. Hence part of the appeal of ShareBuilder was that you could buy dollar amounts of many stocks including Berkshire Hathaway. [...]

When most people ask about setting up their 401k and which mutual funds to pick the easiest answer is to choose index funds. Since most people don’t actively manage their retirement accounts (most people just direct deposit and forget about it, they aren’t interested in following the ups and downs of the stock market) this [...]

I recently came across this article in the WSJ: The Declining Value Of Your College Degree.  It says: College-educated workers are more plentiful, more commoditized and more subject to the downsizings that used to be the purview of blue-collar workers only. What employers want from workers nowadays is more narrow, more abstract and less easily [...]

I have always thought that the reason places like Google catered food was because it was a nice perk for the employees. A year ago I would have never thought that I would be advocating this practice for all start-ups. So how did I change my mind? Let me tell the story. Not all that [...]

If your employer offers a 401k, then by all means you should make sure you are contributing (this is particularly good if they match your contributions, since that is basically free money you are missing out on if you don’t participate).  If you don’t have a 401k though, you should definitely have an IRA (and [...]

BTW, as promised here is what I ended up making at the bbq this weekend: Tomato, Mozzarella, and Basil Tart 2 yellow onions thinly sliced 1 pint of cherry tomatoes, sliced in half 2-3 oz of fresh mozzarella 3 Tbsp of Parmesan cheese fresh basil ready-made pie crust 2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar 3 Tbsp of [...]

This weekend I went to the Seattle Gift Show.  My goal was to review some vendors and get ideas for an online drop shipping/retail site.  I must say I was pretty unimpressed.  There wasn’t a whole lot of vendors and the general opinion of people in attendance is that it wasn’t worth attending anymore since [...]

In my search to come up with passive income sources I have come across some skeptics. If you go to the Amazon web page for the The 4-Hour Workweek there are tons of comments doubting the value of his passive income and outsourcing in the favor of traditional hard work. I also came across an [...]