Don’t Stop Fortune Hunting – Money Making Opportunities Are Everywhere + MORE

This month’s challenge comes from Gwendolyn Pearce, who would rather be doing almost anything else than buying a car. Each month, we’ve been giving you financial challenges. Big or small, that’s up to you. But we believe that exercising these different financial skills will help to open up new possibilities of earning and saving…

My dad tells me that healthcare is one of his biggest bills in retirement. He had open bypass surgery several years ago but is otherwise healthy, walking two miles each day at the local mall and living in his own home without a chronic illness such as Parkinson’s or diabetes…

Is it time for you to start that new business?In today’s edition, we take a look at what it takes to become an entrepreneur.
Everyone has something they are good at and can make money doing.
Many people even have an original idea with loads of potential.
The questions come when it is finally time to go ahead and do it…

Hi Blog Peeps! Welcome to another writing round up. I hope you enjoy the pictures of Grenada below.
Grenada/Life Update
I mentioned last week that I was working on a new project during the month of June at my day job. This project involves going all around the island, so I’ve seen some really cool stuff this week…

While we enjoy a number of health care benefits, there are times when you might end up paying some of your medical expenses out of your own pocket. In these cases, it’s possible to claim medical expenses when you prepare your taxes, and receive a measure of reimbursement for your costs.
There are a few rules to claiming medical expenses, but with a little planning there are ways to maximize your claim…

There is a major home repair looming that I see every time I pull in to my driveway.  The driveway slopes down toward the road so when I pull in I am staring right at the foundation and right at the ends of exposed rebar.
My home was  very cheaply built to maximize profit for the builder and to meet the minimum building code requirements…

The rising prices in the housing market within the last year (in some cases as high as 10%) are a good sign for the economy, as well as for homeowners and investors hoping to make a profit. Since the bottom fell out of the housing market and decreased home values as much as 30%, home owners, realtors, and investors have been slowly recovering their losses…

More than 97,000 rail carloads of crude oil were delivered in the United States during the first quarter of the year. That’s 20 percent more than the fourth quarter of 2012 and 166 percent more than during the same period last year. Rail shipments of grain, metallic ores and minerals declined, however…

As part of the new Summer of Saving series on food costs/savings, I didn’t want to jump right in to particulars. I first wanted to hit the much more impactful lifestyle changes.
We’ve already shown the huge impact cooking can have on lowering food costs. But what other lifestyle changes can also have a huge impact on food costs?
Try reducing the meat in your diet!
When I made the switch to becoming vegetarian, one immediate benefit of doing so was that my grocery bill declined quite noticeably…

With the power of technology getting faster and smaller, every industry has had significant changes. The real estate business is no exception. According to a recent survey completed by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and Google, real estate related searches on Google have grown 253% over the past four years…

A revolution is underway in estate planning. At this point, you know about the 2012 changes to the tax law. These changes require fresh approaches and strategies.
Unfortunately, many people believe the new law means estate planning is unimportant. That’s a mistake. Estate planning still is required, but how we plan needs to change…

If so, you could be reading this in your pajamas right now 😉 Remember my friend who likes to push the boundaries at work and ask for what he wants? Like that “choose your own adventure” deal with salaries and time scales? Haha… Well he’s at it again. Only this time angling for Fridays off 🙂
It all stems back to the same thing it always does with him: having more time to pursue his hustles…

When I was 22 I got lucky, very lucky. No, a Ford agency supermodel didn’t decide to stalk me around Manhattan and show me off to her beautiful friends in case we didn’t work out. Instead, a $3,000 investment turned into $155,000 in two months. The stock was VCSY a Chinese internet company with a homepage consisting of a simple dial pad…

Greetings and happy Friday. Summer has arrived here and I have to say that I am loving it. I thrive in the heat and sunshine. It really makes me happy.
This week I wanted to share a giveaway with you. My friend Jackie over at The Debt Myth has created a Pay Off Debt App which I think is very cool. I don’t know the first thing about creating apps…

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Happy Friday everyone! It’s been quite a week…we had our garage sale (see how we did!) last weekend and then spent a couple days out of town for my wife’s grandfather’s funeral…

As you may already know, I think there is money to be made investing in companies building "America’s Natural Gas Highway."
One of my favorites is a company that could help kill the gasoline engine, Westport Innovations (WPRT). But today I want to tell you about another potential gasoline engine killer that’s about to be listed on a major exchange for the first time…

Warning – this is a rant post. Usually I don’t rant much because I don’t like to dwell on the negative, but this guy is a serious jackass and I just have to vent. Last week, Jenny, one of our readers, forwarded me an article from Yahoo! Voices  – Why I happily spend $440 a month on my cable package…

After a brief chat with Girl Ninja yesterday, we’ve made the wise decision to stop saving money for the foreseeable future. No, we haven’t hit our $100,000 savings goal yet, and if I all goes according to plan, we never will.
I first blogged about our ambitious $100,000 savings goal in June 2010…

Our children, like most children today, will choose something sweet when you give them a beverage choice. They’ll want fruit juice or a soda or something akin to that if I let the child make the choice.
Thankfully, I’m a parent and I understand that it’s a terrible idea to establish a pattern that a beverage has to be flavored or sweet…

Last summer friends of mine bought a new house – with a pool. Since those are surprisingly uncommon where I live in Louisiana, we were always in the backyard that summer.Then one day, disaster struck. The owner didn’t know the golden rule: “Never toss a fully clothed person in the pool.” I went in, clothes and all, with my Android in my pocket…