When I consider getting rid of my van, I immediately turn to finding a replacement in the used car market. Having a truck around the house for hauling and whatnot is nice. Unfortunately, the cost of used cars gives me sticker shock, and instead of getting rid of my old truck, I spend hundreds of…
Are Rental Companies Leading the EV Switch-Over? While consumers still balk at buying new EVs, they are likelier to plunk money for an EV rental car from an EV fleet. So, are business interests, like rental cars, driving the EV switchover? Sure, after all, rental car companies run fleets. That’s the idea: Fleet. The government…
While considering getting rich (and why you want to get rich), consider what prosperity anxiety it creates in today’s culture. While getting rich is everyone’s dream, few people know what they’d do with all that money. But first, let’s look at how much money you need to be rich. Prosperity Anxiety: Is There an Official…
How to Start one for less than $500 T-Shirt Transfer: Are you looking for a side gig with a minimum investment of less than $500, where you’ll be your own boss, where the product value is artwork, some or all of which you can do on the board or in a camera? Then the T-shirt…
The omission of the US (and that other major polluter, China) from the climate COP 28 summit in Dubai because they don’t take climate change seriously might sound sad, and it gives me pause as an American concerned with this catastrophe on an approaching horizon. I mean, do America’s climate initiatives have to be so…
Since school started, it’s time to find money for tuition or to pay bills, and that’s where gig work shines. So, what’s available in Gig work we can do today? In other words, what’s going on with your side hustles? Let’s look! Side hustles can bridge the gap between what you want and what you…
So, I get a lot of junk mail advertising passed through my door slot, dropping on my sunny front hall rug, some offering home equity loans. A home equity loan, the mailing says, can solve all my financial woes. It can pay off my credit cards, finance a home remodel, fund education, and buy that…
During summer doldrums. Stock investing looks harsh to me in August, even something the gods have fixed against me when I look at my portfolio and wonder, “Where is the performance?” When your investments are in the doldrums, what can you do? Do Some Analysis Experts say the first place to go is to the…
So my landlord upsells rental insurance every month (she doesn’t require I outright buy rental insurance), plugging the idea when I pay my rent electronically. US rental insurance generates 4.5 billion dollars in profits, so it’s not unusual to buy rental insurance or for a landlord to suggest it to renters. My landlord isn’t getting…
Use Selective Shopping When You Shop So, with all the deals in cyberspace and the mall, would a new approach to shopping make a difference, an approach that might make it easier to shop successfully? Then read these shopping tips to try the next time you’re out and about. What is Selective Shopping? Selective shopping…
