Welcome to the fourth edition of the Finance Fiesta! Having just finished celebrating a great Cinco de Mayo last month, I figured I’d feature my favorite Mexican import: Corona. So grab your favorite cerveza and start drinking. We have a lot of great posts this week, and some even better beers to consume. Bottom’s up!
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I love Costco and Sam’s Club. Wives across the country must see it as a giant daycare center for husbands. Bigscreen TVs, computers, tools, cheap pizza, even bulk alcohol. I could walk around in there for hours before my wife would need to pick me up. But when you take away the 60″ plasmas, frozen […]

About a month ago, I bought a Skype phone for long distance calling. My sister is a Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda, and before I bought my Skype phone I had to call her using calling cards (we didn’t have a land line and long distance with a cell phone is financial suicide). The problem […]

You can call it a recession, financial downturn, economic slowdown, or whatever you’d like. But the fact is, millions of Americans are feeling the pinch. Rising food and gas costs, coupled with a devalued dollar, are destroying budgets. So where can people turn when they run out of money, and the bills are due?
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Grand Theft Auto IV has been getting plenty of press lately. Newspapers, magazines, and news programs are all up in arms about the intense level of violence portrayed in the game. Murder, stealing, drug use, and prostitution are all center stage in the latest iteration of the series. Parents are freaking out because of what […]

Mother’s Day is this Sunday (you did buy a card, right?), and I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to freak out a little bit about what to get my mom. If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know I just spent a little over $3000 on airfare so my family could make it […]