Regular readers may have noticed that in my “Featured Links” section there are several links for payday loan companies. Since my site doesn’t really rank for that phrase I’m not sure why, but I get quite a few companies wanting to purchase links for payday loans on this site. One notable offer came in a few days ago. What made it...

An interesting week…seems like blogging slipped a couple notches on my priority list for the past few days. The list looked something like this: Find a place to live (since we’ve been given notice because our landlord wants to sell our place) Getting the real estate investing bug while in Phoenix; I’ve spend the better part of a week...

The next stop in my “Ways I’ve Made Money” saga was a brief summer job I had when I just turned 17 and my dad got me a job in the factory he worked at. There were two of us, son’s of a couple of the workers, hired on as “Materials Handlers.” Officially it was our job to gather the plastic and other materials needed to assemble...

Now this article is going to date me so for all you young Internet whipper-snappers who are reading this, hang on to your hats – here comes a history lesson. When I was about 11 I got my first job as a paperboy – I know that is a terribly politically incorrect term, but that’s what we were called back then. These days I’m sure the term is...

I was reading over Yaro’s business timeline and it got me thinking about how I got to this point of my life. Yaro’s version, I printed it out, is about 17 pages long and I’m a lot older than he is, so I’m going to have to edit the story dramatically or Greenpeace will be after me for needlessly killing forests … and we wouldn’t...

Kind of a morbid topic for the holiday season, but since Darren brought it up [What Happens to Your Blogs if You Die], I’ve bumped it up on my “to blog about” list. My wife and I have been systematically working our way through a review of our entire financial situation lately and of course the topic of wills and living wills and estate planning...