An emergency may be unexpected, but it is not necessarily unforeseeable. If you’re not planning for life’s emergencies ahead of time, you may end up turning to short term loans as your only way to finance them. However, there are other ways to stash away emergency cash for when life hand’s you one of its little emergencies. Medical Expenses Health insurance is one way to plan for medical problems you can’t predict, but are due to happen. To plan even further to pay for co-pays and the deductible, you can also set up a flexible spending account with your company....
Well I didn’t either so keep reading and you will find out. Lately I have been thinking a lot about where I would like this blog to go in the future. I have drawn out plans as to how I see it in the future. While not working on the site in the past few days I have been deep in thought. I conducted an interview for a newspaper and I have been busy at work. This time of the year is especially busy in hospital finance. Each year as the financial audits are coming to a close, the reimbursement...
One of the first posts I wrote about was writing a magnificent resume. If you work hard for your credentials you certainly want to flaunt them and I fully support that, but I do not support falsifying your credentials. Take a look at what is going on with the current Yahoo CEO. The Yahoo CEO supposedly claimed that he had a bachelor’s degree in accounting and computer science. It was found out through one of the members of the board of directors, coincidently a member whose organization is trying to get more seats on the board. When does stretching the...
Sometimes people think that spending consciously is a total waste of time and incredibly difficult. Fortunately, this isn’t always true, and there are tons of little ways to save money. Sometimes this means going to the grocery store on a full stomach, and sometimes it means skipping on the yoga classes and buying some exercise videos at home instead. But there are even some common sense ways to save a buck or two – and you can do it right from your computer. How, you ask? By taking advantage of a browser feature that has been around for more than...
Have you ever heard of the cave dweller? Dumpster forager? What about Daniel Suelo? Well I have news for you they may all be one in the same. Daniel Suelo is a man who decided he didn’t need money anymore. What did you say? That is right he decided he didn’t need money anymore. So one day he walked out and put his last $30 dollars in a phone booth and hasn’t looked back. That was 12 years ago. He has been wandering the country since living off the land and others generosity. He really takes it to heart when...
There was an article in the NY Times that said that Pfizer profit declined 19% after loss of patent for Lipitor. The article points out that Pfizer is racing to reinvent itself as they are scheduled to lose 19 drug patents with a potential to lose $38.5 billion in sales. For years big drug companies have been buying up smaller companies that showed a promise of bringing a new drug to the market. They picked up where the little company left off and brought it out to the market place under the larger companies’ name. What is next for the...
What an interesting week it has been. My Alexa rank dropped below 200,000 thanks to you, really I couldn’t have done it without you so I thank you!! I had a logo created for my site so take a look and let me know what you think! This weekend atleast where I live it supposed to be in the upper 60’s so that is making me feel anxious to get outside and do some yard work! So here they are in no particular order, the Five For Friday! J Money on how far would you go to pick up a...
I was sitting there having a mind freeze on what to write and I looked over to my wife and asked her for a topic. She said, “gas.” Sitting there thinking that was out of left field, I pretended not to hear and said huh. Gas prices, Ahh gotcha! Well if you haven’t noticed gas has been creeping up, it seems as though every time I drive past a gas station it is 10 cents higher than it was an hour ago. I read an article the other day that crude prices over $100 a barrel are going to be...
You are not seeing double, this is my new logo. Well last night I broke the infamous 200,000 Alexa mark. I can hear the crowd roaring….like when Bubba Watson won the Master’s yesterday! If you haven’t noticed by a few mentions in the posts I am an avid golfer or should I say hacker. The timing couldn’t be more perfect. A few weeks back I was scouring the Craigslist ads looking for a graphic designer to design me a professional logo. If you would like to see the old one click here. What do you think? If you are anything...
I love this time of the year, it is April which means the start of the golf season in Central NY and also for the past few years it has meant that Deadliest Catch is on. It starts April 10 this year on the Discovery Channel. It’s all the same, only the names will change Everyday it seems we’re wasting away Another place where the faces are so cold I’d drive all night just to get back home. I’m a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride I’m wanted dead or alive Wanted dead or alive Sorry, I was a...
What a great success the Roth IRA Movement was. In a few days we are going to enter National Financial Literacy Month, what a great month to celebrate it, ohhhh the coincidence it also happens to be my birthday in April too! National Financial Literacy Month came about in 2004 when the Senate passed Resolution 316 which officially recognized April as my birthday National Financial Literacy Month. Originally started as youth financial literacy, it was realized that we all need to be well versed money and personal finance. For my Canadian friends sorry we will have to wait until November...
For as long as I can remember it has always been 1. McDonald’s 2. Burger King and 3. Wendy’s. Well that is not the case any longer as it has just been announced that Burger King was surpassed in US sales volume by Wendy’s. This change up brings makes me reminisce of those days back in college and that Nelly song “Number One.” You know you remember Nelly, he sung Country Grammar! Google it if you forgot who, but make sure you come back to finish up this article. As I digress….. Hey hey hey hey hey hey – now...
Childhood….Ahhh those were the days of no responsibility where my only recollection of money was that my parents had it and I needed it to buy candy or that new toy. But what I do remember as a youth was that my parents subscribed to Encyclopedia Britannica. I asked my mom a while back how they ended up with the encyclopedias and she gave me the spiel where a salesman came door to door saying something about how it was going to be the way of the future. They had just had me as their first child and they didn’t...
