Month: August 2011

Month: August 2011
General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Electric Vehicles And Money

Recently a person was telling me that she was interested in buying a smart car since it is compact which makes it easier to drive. It seems too that recently there are models that operate fully on electricity. That then brought up a discussion on how that must be a good way to save money

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Making Money

Trading In For Credit Or Selling It Yourself

I was looking at some electronic stores today that seemed to be offering recycling program incentives where you can trade in your old products for a gift card to be used at its stores. I have yet to get rid of my old digital camera and so out of curiosity I looked up at how

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Financial Management

Double Checking What Cashiers Enter

Today I went to the supermarket and decided to buy some fresh apples by the pound. As usual, there are different brands for you to choose from and usually they are all set at different prices. When I went to the checkout to get them scanned I noticed that the cashier entered a different brand

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Financial Management

Eating Away Your Money On Flights

While travelling back from an airplane flight yesterday it was astonishing to see the prices that they charged people for food and snacks. Here is a sample of the list I saw: I was just thinking that some of those items like the potato chips must be at least three times the cost of what

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Financial Management

Avoiding Bridge Tolls

Time to make the Trip back to Vancouver today and one interesting note about the travel back is how many bridge tolls there are. My friend that was driving me was saying when she first picked me up from the airport she had to go through a few of them which costs a few dollars

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Financial Management

Researching Your Benefits

Today my friend was telling me that all this time she had the ability to enroll into a special workplace plan for her cell phone that would enable her to save about thirty to fifty percent off her bill. We were just thinking how much money she would have saved if she researched it ahead

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