I admit it: I spent pretty much all of last night drooling over cell phones: the n95, the iPhone and half a dozen shiny new toys. I don’t need to change phones yet, but pretty soon, it looks like I’m going to have to break down and buy something that I can both send email [...]

Food prices are on the rise — more so than they have been in years. A dozen eggs costs 60 percent more today than it did just a year ago. And after so many years of only single digit food inflation, consumers are starting to worry.
There are a number of causes for rising costs. For [...]

Whenever I go to the mall, I see signs for sales: 50 percent off! Today only! Free gift! All those sales are meant to get us worked up into a buying frenzy — after all, the products are cheaper than usual, making this the best time to buy. But a lot of those sales don’t [...]

There’s only two ways to get richer, make more or spend less. Saving as much money as possible is one of the fundamentals of building wealth.  It is applicable on day one, that’s why I’m an advocate of frugal living. However, I also want a happy and balanced life, which is why I wrote about [...]

Wear ‘em once dresses drive me nuts. From prom dresses to wedding dresses, I can’t stand the thought of plunking down that much cash for something I’ll only spend a few hours in, ever. In high school, I got so mad about the matter that I considered wearing my prom dress to classes a couple [...]