Show of hands.  How many of you actively participate in recycling endeavors in your community?  You schlep around your empty cans, jugs, and bottles.  You pile them up with your used papers, then sort them all into bins so some poor schmoe down at the recycling center doesn’t have to.  All so your city can [...]

In case you haven’t noticed, this site is all about personal finance.  Well, mostly.  We certainly talk a lot about personal finance.  But, is personal finance really all that important? How much time do you devote to your personal finances?  To your budget? To coupon clipping?  In the end, does any of it make a [...]

So, are you surprised by that news?  That new home sales dropped like a rock in May?  I can’t say that I am.  I try hard to keep my politics out of this site, but what the heck were they thinking?  If you look at the chart that CNNMoney has posted, you can clearly see [...]

An advertisement that I received prompted me to think about the term “Limited Edition”.  As consumers we are conditioned to believe that if something is called “limited edition” that it must be more valuable.  After all, it is “limited”, which implies that it is scarce.  It implies that the supply of the item has a [...]