Happy February! It’s the most depressing month of the year for, oh, so many reasons. Maybe you don’t have a hunny on Valentine’s Day. Maybe you just hate winter, and it won’t go away. Or maybe, just maybe, you haven’t quite met your benchmark for your New Year’s Resolution. That makes you want to quit. […]
Side Hustle Idea – How to Digitize VHS Tapes (It’s easy!)
Do you, or your parents, have a stash of family videos that are still on VHS? Perhaps your grandparents do? A crappy thing about VHS tapes is that they degrade over time, really anything over 10 years. Not a lot of people have been using VHS in the past ten years. Most likely, those tapes […]
Anyone Want to Split $35M With Me? Dreaming of Winning the Lotto
On the drive home the other day, we got to talking about an unclaimed $35 million lottery ticket in Ontario. After a discussion about people doing crazy things to get a divorce after learning they won the lottery, we moved on to the natural topics of “what would I do” and “retirement.” We settled on […]
Smartphone Entertainment
Not too long ago, I talked about my Sony Xperia Z2 phone… the good and the bad. I am the kind of person who gets made fun of for the amount of time that they spend on their phone. Most of the time, this is from my spouse (who is watching TV. Pot calling the […]
Drawbacks to Using the Library
How can that be? Many personal finance bloggers, including myself, LOVE the library. Getting a library card and using it to borrow, rather than buy books is a great way to save money. Books aren’t cheap. In my honest opinion, they’re pretty darn expensive. Especially the hardcover books. It boggles my mind that people will […]
Preparing your Kids for the Costs of Driving
The costs of driving, as any car owner knows, include much more than putting gas in the gas tank. When I was a teenager without a car of my own, I did what many kids did to get around town — I either rode my bike, hitched a ride with a friend, or borrowed my […]
I Have a Compulsion to Fix Things, in Other People’s Businesses
I like to stick my nose into other people’s businesses. Once, a friend who owns a store, asked me for some ideas about marketing online. We went out for lunch and I came up with idea after idea. I thought it was pretty darn amazing. I absolutely love the brainstorming phase, especially when presented with […]
Things that Suck About my Phone: A Review of the Xperia Z2
I have been meaning to write this review of the Xperia Z2 for a long, long time. At this point, it is nearly irrelevant, with newer phones on the market, just in time for Christmas. That leads me to my first diversion. Gazelle. Just throwing in an animal, in the middle of a phone review? […]
I Want to Make all the Monies – or 2015 Goals and Such
As 2014 drew to a close, several different people asked me about my goals for 2015. Liquid even created a round up on his blog, Freedom 35 blog. I wrote about a few of mine over there. Additionally, awhile back in one of the Blog Stats and Income Report posts, someone asked what my goal […]
Boxing Day Murder Mystery Dinner
This year, my spouse and I spent Christmas at my parent’s house. A few weeks before we left, I got an email from my Dad, telling us that we needed to bring costumes with us, because we were going to have a Boxing Day Murder Mystery Dinner! This particular murder mystery was set in a […]