A Tentative Personal Finance Blog

The AAA-Chicago Motor Club keeps track of gas prices in the Chicago area. They report that the average price per gallon as of May 10 is $3.34. If you’re reading this at work just before leaving, you might want to think about the many ways you can save money on the way home […]

If you’re like me, you have trouble finding just the perfect gift for anyone. My intentions are well, but my execution leaves a lot to be desired. Earlier this month my wife had a birthday. We’re trying to save money right now, so we decided that we’re not going to go all […]

I’ve been working on a few posts for the coming week, so I’m not sure that there will be any significant posting today. Maybe late tonight, after the wife goes to bed or early Sunday morning.
Today’s post at Freakonomics linked to an article on a study released by The University of Melbourne’s School of […]

Growing up you’re inundated with questions that are appropriate for you age. When I was 6, people always asked, “What are you going to be when you grow up?” When I was 12, it was, “How tall are you, how much do you weigh?” The the tough questions came at around 17 […]

This post isn’t really related to finance issues, but it does relate to blogging. The last time I had a web page (The Enchanted Realm), I was 20 and I coded html by notepad. 7 years later, there’s CSS and php and I have no clue what I’m doing. I thought WordPress and […]

I’m sure a lot of us daydream about winning the lottery and hitting the big jackpot worth tens or even hundreds of millions. It’s almost absurdly easy to think of what you could do with that kind of scratch. You could make huge financial mistakes and it probably wouldn’t hurt you all that […]

Last night I ran across a post at Get Rich Slowly about dealing with unemployment through blogging. When I was daydreaming about blogging a few months ago, I really did think that I could just starting writing and instantly there’d be a fan following and the money would start rolling in. Who wouldn’t […]

One of the thing I’m always complaining about is that my wife buys too many clothes. You walk into “our” closet (it’s mostly her’s with a few shelves devoted to my t-shirts), and you’re inundated with her suits for work, rows of shoes, countless accessories… it goes on and on! To be fair, […]

One of the goals of this blog is to earn income away from a traditional 9 to 5 job. I’m considering eBay as an alternative. It seems like each year billions of dollars of commerce is done on that site. I wonder how I can leverage my knowledge and passion of random […]

You’re witnessing history in the making today folks. This is the first post of a yet to be named, mostly about personal finance, blog. Please excuse the ugliness of the site, while I try to figure out how to use WordPress and morph this general template into something that more matches my personality.
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