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Tips for a Sport Collection Collecting a memorability sport collection is something that can be truly exciting as a hobby and also truly profitable. Perhaps you have always had an interest in sports, or perhaps you just love collecting items of value. If you are interested in creating your own sport collection, you need to...
7 ways to stifle your creativity After writing for this blog for a few months, I’ve noticed that occasionally I’m really stumped for topics. I don’t really get writer’s block, since once I have a topic I can usually fly away with it, but I do get stifled on overall themes and ideas. I was trying...
31 Days to a Better Blog—Day 11 Day 11 of Building a Better Blog is here. Today's tip is one that is close to my heart because I'm a big fan of baseball stats. So Analyzing my Blog's Stats means digging into the numbers to try to discover new things about the site and ways to...
$350 from Chase Freedom Visa Card The Chase Freedom Card is one of my favorite cards right now. Here is how you can make $350 with it over the next year or so: Apply for the card and collect the $50 bonus. Sign your spouse up for the card and collect another $50 bonus. Don't use...
Baseball Pennants Sports Memorabilia -> Vintage-Sports Memorabilia -> Pennants-Flags Collecting baseball pennants can be a fun hobby for a sports memorabilia fan, or a fan of a particular baseball team. A collector can choose to collect pennants that were made during a certain year, a certain era, or pennants spanning the entire...- Baseball Memorabilia Sports Memorabilia -> Autographs - Original -> Baseball - MLB Out of all of the sports collectibles, when it comes to the ones that resonate the deepest with collectors, baseball memorabilia is at the top of the list. This is an emotional game, and there are thousands of different things...
- Football Helmets Sports Memorabilia -> Fan Apparel & Souvenirs -> Football-NFL Official NFL memorabilia comes in all shapes and sizes, but some very distinctive collectible items are NFL football helmets. Whether you want to collect one from each of the 30 teams, or just your favorite team or teams, it's a fun...
Tennis I wasn’t the greatest tennis player in the world, but I played on a team that was usually in the top 2-3 in our district and the top 10 in the state. Mississippi was a pretty competitive tennis state, so that wasn’t a small achievement. I was on the...
Most Common Sports Injuries And Long Term Health Athletes in major sporting events are often prone to injury, sometimes resulting in debilitating conditions that will affect them for the rest of their lives. Try “Tennis Elbow Secrets Revealed” - The Best Approach To Curing Your Tennis Elbow Pain… Everyone who watches football has at one time or another...- Football and Basketball News and Transactions for July 2 Football News Jets waived/failed physical OT Mike Fladell. Titans agreed to terms with third-round CB Ryan Mouton on a four-year, $2.4 million contract. Basketball News The Pistons waived big man Fabricio Oberto, who was acquired as part of the Amir Johnson trade last week. The Pistons and free agent guard...
Top schools for college bound student-athlete Going to college today may literally mean robbing a bank. Costs skyrocket like they're all going to Mars and it does not stop there. What it cost today will not be how it would cost tomorrow, or the day when you finally decided to enroll yourself into an institution that...- The things people say Read the following statements: "We paid cash for our car." "We paid off all our credit cards last week." "We're committed to not borrowing money." "We're sending our kids to college because we think it's the right thing to do." "We can afford this great new house in the suburbs...
- Customer service & gift cards I love receiving carefully-chosen gift cards. To me they are like free money. Guilt-free money, in fact. Oh darn, I "have" to spend this money on a massage or at my favorite restaurant instead of, you know, saving it or buying something practical. My son likes gift cards too, so...
- How many credit cards are too many? The answer to "how many credit cards are too many?" will vary from person to person. For some the answer will be one; others may think that you can never have too many credit cards. However, if you are going to use credit cards there are good reasons to avoid...
- The danger zone I've had a bumpy credit card history: I started out good -- using a single credit card as a tool to build my credit history and that was it. Then I got into quite a bit of credit card debt. Then I went to the other extreme, and didn't use...
- Maximizing your grocery money Everyone likes saving money, and saving money on groceries is even better since groceries are typically one of the larger expenses each month. Here are some tips on how to maximize your grocery money. 1. Only buy what you need. This may seem obvious, but it's really not. Go through...
- Sorry, we have a minimum purchase amount I went shopping recently in a series of little boutiques and antique stores, and stopped for lunch at a restaurant that I'd never been to before. My lunch was pretty inexpensive ($6) but I went to pay for it using my credit card as usual. When I got to the...
- What's in your wallet? I saw this question in the interviews done by The Mint Blog, and I think it'd be interesting to see a bunch of responses to that single question. Do you think there will be a difference between what men carry & what women do? I'm betting there won't be much...
- Debt & the Grand Canyon In many ways, getting into & out of debt is like hiking the Grand Canyon using Bright Angel Trail. I'd gone to see the Grand Canyon with a group many years ago, and I decided to hike it on a whim. It seemed like a good idea at the time,...
Crazy receipts When I was a little kid I used to ramble around outside for hours, poking through neighboring fields. I usually found Indian pottery, but one day I found a very beat up, chipped old hammer half buried in the dirt. I took it home and showed my dad, who told...
$1 Million by 2017. What's Your Financial Goal? Before I started this blog, I did not really have a good financial goal. Actually, my financial goal was similar to 99.9% of other Americans...I wanted to be rich. But what is rich? In "Are you wealthy? Here's a test," I defined wealthy as: "...when income from my assets can...- Children Of The Granola. My first reaction when I see someone handing things out for free in the middle of Government Center is "Oh Jesus, here we go again" - and this morning I was right on the ball. Because on this of all mornings, the bearded-bugger wanted me to have a snack, apparently.A...
Review: 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget The writers of Wise Bread have put out an important resource for weathering the recession in style with their new book: 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget. There's something for everybody: from someone just getting acquainted with the frugal lifestyle to someone who was born with a...- 10 reasons -- or 100 -- for loving Troll beads 10. They make you happy. 9. They are easy to transport 'cause they're small. That is, until you collect several drawers full as some aficionados have at their finger tips. 8. It's nice to be able to commemorate a happy time. 7. Once you get into collecting them, you can...
The Good Human Eco-Friendly Holiday Gift Guide. No greenwashing, no spending money you don't have, no buying stuff just for the sake of buying stuff. Just real, useful products for the green or the green at heart. I received a few emails last week while we were moving asking me for my ideas for "green" Christmas presents,...
Money Genie: I Grant You 3 Financial Do-Overs Today is your lucky day! The personal finance genie has graced this site with his presence. What's he doing here? Well, he has come to grant you 3 financial do-overs. photo by: tony newell What Would You Change Financially If You Had the Chance? The genie wants to know what...
Is the Worst Behind Us in the Stock Markets? Yesterday I saw an interesting poll on Yahoo! Finance that asked, "With the stock market showing renewed strength is it safe to buy?" As of now, the results are as follows: Yes. We've bottomed. 28% Stocks will trade sideways. 30% No. This is a head-fake. 42% 64410 Votes to date...
Wedding Gifts for Young Men Let’s face it. Wedding days are usually showered with gifts that are mostly all about the bride. It’s about time we think about giving something that is intended for the groom to make him feel important. Here are some things we suggest you give the groom: 1. A variety...
Save on Investment Expenses and Losses: Fire Your Financial Planner If you read a lot of the right things about investing, you will be regularly admonished to minimize your investment expenses. This includes choosing mutual funds with low expense ratios and finding ways to trade with little or no transaction costs. In markets where gains are hard to find (like...
10 Things You Must Do After College I am stealing this post from Newly Corporate, courtesy of Dan. You can click through to get his expansive reasons for each.
1. Start a Roth IRA for retirement.
When I graduated college one of the first things I can remember doing was starting a Vanguard Roth IRA. I put my money into the Target Retirement Fund 2045 and funded it 60% of max upfront to make sure that I was on the path to contribute the maximum for the year. I used a large portion of my signing bonus to do so. I did contribute the maximum that year, and boy has it lost a lot of value since. But, I think the important takeaway was getting into the habit of sending money to Vanguard. What do you all think? Are you sticking mainly with a traditional?
