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Financial Management

The Idea of Living Off Interest

Many times when you ask people what they would do with say a million dollars a common answer would be that they would put the money in a savings account and then live off the interest that they would gain every month. Just recently a person was telling me that he planned to do just

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Business

Negative Sale Pitches From Workers

I thought this was funny. Recently a family member told me that he bought a laptop from a store. It just so happened that not too long ago they purchased a desktop from the same place and the same sales person was assisting them. While the salesmen didn’t recognize them they definitely recognized him. The

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Business

Percentage or Dollars Off

I was looking at some sale prices for various products recently and of course this meant comparing what various companies were charging for them. One point I noticed was that for one business they displayed all of its sale prices by emphasizing how many dollars you were saving on the item. Example, saying a product

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Financial Management

Would You Avoid Tips to Prevent Over Spending

Interesting comment I heard today I thought. Basically, while giving people tips is a pretty common thing to do for various services, one person was saying how he couldn’t believe that people still gave tips even if it meant that they were going over budget for the purchases. Hence, they are hurting themselves financially. I

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Getting A Little Bit Everyday

I was talking to a person recently who appears to have stayed at an entry level job for a large part of his life. While he says that he doesn’t enjoy it, he mentions that it is something he is good at which constantly brings in money. I then started to ask why he never

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Financial Management

Planning Too Far Ahead Financially

I was reading an article today that talked about a person who has saved up so much money in his life as everything was planned out so that he can enjoy his retirement. The bad thing was that recently he experienced some sort of health problem which means he won’t be able to do all

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