Category: Random

Best Buy announced Monday that they would be making changes to their in store compensation for sales associates and effectively halving the income of 8000 employees. This move has drawn comparisons to Circuit City who two years ago made a similar move in firing higher paid sales staff and replacing them with lowered paid employees.…

My goal with this website from the beginning has been to write articles about exploring ways of making money outside of working for someone else and to need less money by being more self-sufficient, and also as of late covering topics about how the current political and economic evironment may affect all of our freedoms…

I remember a time not too long ago when my wife and I were really struggling financially. Heck we aren’t far better now. At the time though I was beginning to question how we would be able to heat our house through the winter. Bills were piling up and there wasn’t much hope of the…

We are just a week away from the most greed filled day of the year. I am talking about Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is one of the commercially innocent holidays remaining of the major holidays. That status is being stripped away though by more and more retail stores choosing to open on…

I’ve spent the last four years on dialup internet. During that time I wasted countless hours waiting for pages to load and didn’t go to many websites because I didn’t have the time to wait. I also killed many website ideas I had during that time because managing them would have been impossible on dialup.…

There I was in the express checkout at Wal-Mart. 10 Items or Less. In front of me in line was a middle-aged woman who waited until all her items were scanned and then pulled out her checkbook. Meticulously wrote the information down in the check register and then began filling out the check. Meanwhile the…