Archive for the ‘Cash’ Category
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
A cash-only budgeting system can be the ticket to reining in spending and getting away from the temptation of credit cards. The idea is this:
Pull out the total of your weekly (biweekly, monthly) budget in cash.
Separate the cash into envelopes by category according to how you're budgeting that money.
Spend down ...
Posted in Budgeting, Cash | 3 Comments »
Monday, November 15th, 2010
Gresham's Law now has small business backing.
There's a fair bit of activity on eBay buying and selling 95% copper cents, and the coin sorters to distinguish them from the newer zinc variety. Why the interest, you might ask? It's the copper content of the cents that's interesting. These high-copper cents, ...
Posted in Cash, Coins, EBay, Economy | 2 Comments »
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Fresh after posting on whether small credit card charges are shameful or otherwise to be avoided, I got a comment on that post. "Paul" asks:
"Wasn’t a provision of the financial reform bill that passed this July that store owners are now legally allowed to not accept a credit card ...
Posted in Banking, Cash, Commentary, Credit, Shopping | 18 Comments »
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
I suppose in some ways it might look like zero inflation is bad for you. After all:
Social Security checks don't go up.
Marginal tax bracket cutoffs don't go up.
The standard federal income tax deduction doesn't go up.
Interest rates on savings accounts are in the basement.
Etc., etc., etc.
These bad things are all ...
Posted in Cash, Commentary, Economy | 2 Comments »
