Funny situation today as I went back to a restaurant to get a receipt for a transaction that occurred yesterday. The one they gave me had no details such as what was ordered and the total taxes. Instead, it just had the total cost and form of payment used.

At first the workers were saying that they couldn’t give me a receipt for the previous day. Then the owner came out and said that I must be using it for business write offs. Funny thing was he then told the staff to just give me any receipt that came close to what I ordered yesterday. Since they couldn’t locate it quickly owner just give me like three receipts that almost totaled the same amount.

These are apparently from other customers that simply left their receipts behind. Literally, he was willing to just give me like a handful of them. Kind of interesting I thought as when you think about it someone could just grab receipts like these that people leave behind and use it for their own write-offs.

I often hear people talk about this a way to say that giving people tips should be your choice and not an expected requirement. Usually, people use fast food restaurants as an example on how no one ever tips those people and make complaints about it. Just today, for the first time I saw a fast food venue actually request for a tip.

Basically, it was a regular food court vendor at the mall as today I had to dine out. I used my credit card to make the purchase and when my card was placed into the machine you have to do things such as entering your pin number and approving the transaction. The first message it asks you was “how much are you tipping?”

I was very surprised at this and it seems like even the employees expected you to pay extra for it. This just made me wonder, so are people such as retail employees are going to ask you for tips now too when you go buy things at the supermarket? At this rate every service in every industry is going to have their special “tipping” requests or “essential fees” just to balance out the economy as everyone needs to make their money back while not wanting to feel “cheap” by saying no.

Today I heard a person saying how he could get tickets to an event where for $250 dollars you could drink as much alcohol as you want. This made a lot of people enthusiastic where they started to say how they would get “hammered” for sure and all where it was such a good deal financially. I was just thinking, how much can one honestly drink before they pass out in one day?

I guess if that is your kind of thing of having fun then that is different story. But is it really that exciting value wise? Example, if you paid $200 for an all you can eat lobster buffet how much could you really eat in a sitting? Financially speaking, to me it’s like you are just spending more per item unless you truly can consume so much within a certain time-frame.

I think in most cases like these the value is more about what you think you are getting as oppose to actual numbers I’d say. Another way I like to think about it too is that businesses are in it to make money. So that should usually make you think about the value on services like these if you think they are a true bargain. Like in many of these cases, even they know or have strategies to make sure that most people won’t ever consume the dollar amount worth of products compared to what you paid for.

I was very surprised to get this in the mail today. By the looks of it, this payment is from a company that I have tried awhile ago in regards to an affiliate program. The return didn’t seem that great and so I went on to other stuff. As it appears, I guess I had a year end balance that they decided to send. As you can see, it was for $3.19.

Usually for these types of things I set them not to cash out unless more than $50 has accumulated. Cause like with this it is almost a waste to receive a payment this small. I was looking at the postage too and it looks like they paid seventy five cents for it.

I know I haven’t updated this section in awhile, but that’s because I am actually accumulating funds to try something new. But I guess I will add this fund into the pool:

Stock Investment: $800
Web Publishing: $1098.86
Million Dollar Term: $100
Affiliate Sales: $91.01
Free Money and Credits: $100
Loose Change Savings: $209.23
Selling Items: $55.64

Total: $2454.74

Got kind of a funny surprise today as I tried to deposit some money into the savings account and for some reason the ATM wouldn’t allow me to do so. After speaking with a live teller apparently my debit card was no longer active as a new one had been issued. Of course, I never even received it to my knowledge.

So, this makes me believe that the mail got sent somewhere else by accident or that someone took the mail. Was kind of funny I thought that the bank wouldn’t notify you that your card will be replaced. You’d think I would get at least two mailings like a credit card where in one mail they send you the actual card and the other with some kind of activation number.

Surprised at minimum I couldn’t deposit money on my own as usually too as usually security wise you just can’t take money out.