A pet peeve of mine, for a long time, has been the corporate office “pitch in for a gift” routine. If you aren’t a corporate employee, what happens is that there’s usually one perky busybody in every department who decides to buy a flower basket when co-workers gets sick, or a teddy bear when they [...] Read more »
making money with a credit card
Credit cards are evil. Credit card companies are predatory, aggressive entities who seek only to make money. Poor consumers are victimized by high interest rates and ridiculous penalties. Credit card companies are worse than baby kitten stompers, and we all know how evil THEY are. Except, of course, they are no worse than any other [...] Read more »
the pursuit of wealth for the sake of others
There are a million books written on the subject of money-making – at least. Most people, if they are sensible, want to acquire wealth. If you don’t want material goods for yourself or for your family, you probably would like to acquire wealth to benefit a charity or a cause. If you don’t want to [...] Read more »
third marketplace appearance
Once again Tess Vigeland kindly invited me, along with Lynnae of being frugal and Jim of Bargaineering, back for another “bloggers’ roundtable.” I always enjoy talking with Tess, Lynnae and Jim and I hope you enjoy the show. You can listen here. Feel free to chime in here or at the Marketplace site if you [...] Read more »
how I made a courageous decision to become an entrepreneur
…except I didn’t. With the advent of a deep recession, or depression, or whatever the experts choose to call it today, the traditional and new media are running story after story about freelancers or entrepreneurs or similar types. I read a dozen blogs by people who left the corporate world to become freelancers, or start [...] Read more »
friday links and idle philosophificationings
I’ve been exceptionally busy this week getting my Bruce Wayne life up and running. As Batman – aka brip blap – I’ve been running this site for a year and a half with my real identity more or less hidden. I’m not sure why, sometimes. It seems to be de rigueur for personal finance bloggers [...] Read more »
