The great folks over at Pulsd SFO, just reminded me about the free Tipsy Tow. You can get a free tow home if you (or a friend) get tipsy and need to get yourselves – and your ride – towed to home nearby. AAA members only When: 12/31/10 at 6:00pm PST to 1/1/11 at 6:00am [...]
According to the Tower Group, $5 billion of gift cards went unused in 2009. I spoke with Wildcard Network founder, Raj Basavaraju, about this and other problems with gift cards (see Gift Cards: Buyer (and Receiver) Beware). I know firsthand the mess that gift cards often create: our teenagers routinely lose their gift cards within [...]
If you still have presents to buy – NOW is the time use that Amazon Prime free month offer (you know, the one that gives you two days FREE shipping, guaranteed.) TODAY is the last full day to order and receive by Dec 24. SHARE
Got Teens (or Tweens)? There is a way you can dress your teens and tweens inexpensively without making them compromise on style – check out the wildly creative blog, Recycled Runway – you’ll be amazed at the looks on these pages, like the Recessionista (defined: “A person who is able to stick to a tight [...]
If you have kids in middle school, high school, or you have really precocious grade school kids or kids who collect coins, you can take a free tour of the Federal Reserve Bank (101 Market St.) any Friday at noon. I know I’m a finance geek, but the tour is pretty interesting. Unlike the news, [...]
REVIEW: Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel – 100 Dirty Little Money-Grubbing Secrets, by Phil Villarreal, Skyhorse Publishing, 2009 This book will surely have you laughing – all the way to the bank. Separated at birth from Abbie Hoffman’s Steal this Book (circa 1971) – without all the messy illegal bomb recipes and kooky left-wing politics [...]
In Are women really bad tippers? I promised to give you some quick tips on mobile tip calculators. If you have an iPhone, there are at least 15 tip calculators of one kind or another available from the App Store – and about half of them are free. There is no reason at all for [...]
Yikes! It’s been almost a month since my last blog post. I’d like to blame it on bad old Forefox, and losing all my bookmarks, due to a bad Skype install. But maybe it’s just my old, tired blog design. With all the great sites and blogs all over the Net, I feel like I [...]
Basically, most financial advisors agree: every married woman should have at least one credit card in her own name. So you have your one token card. But how is your credit doing these days? Has your credit been influenced by your partner (up or down)? The best way to find out how you are doing [...]
