by Alison Moore Smith | May 16, 2011 | for Money
Credit scores can seem baffling. Indeed, the credit rating industry has a stranglehold on your financial life with some pretty nonsensical rules. With bad (r no) credit, it's next-to-impossible to get a mortgage, get an auto loan, or finance much of anything. You can...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 13, 2011 | for Money
If you have a business, a blog, or are working on your muse and need an easy way to spread the word, promotional materials can be a cost effective way to get the word out. Promotion items are things like tee-shirts, pens, keychains, cloths bags, magnets, personalized...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 29, 2011 | for Good, for Money, Lifestyle Design
It was only this past week that I found Tim Ferriss has naysayers. There are actually people who believe the 4-hour workweek model is just hype and hyperbole. Even while they validate what they call “the real point”—which is something along the lines of...
by Angie Gardner | Mar 29, 2011 | for Money
Several years ago, my grandma asked me to drop her off for some shopping at DI (Deseret Industries), with instructions to pick her up in two hours. When I arrived to pick her up, I could see that she had a shopping cart full of all kinds of things: clothing, blankets,...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 26, 2011 | for Money
This post brought to you by AutoAssure. All opinions are 100% mine. We haven't purchased a car in eight years. We have a 2002 Hyundai Sante Fe and a 2003 Ford Excursion. (How many vehicles seat a family of eight?) The former has over 100,000 miles on it and the latter...
by Alison Moore Smith | Mar 16, 2011 | for Fun, for Money
We've been using the Entertainment coupon books since we were married in 1985. (In Utah they are often referred to as “Happenings books.”) As struggling students the only way we could spring for a real night out on the town, was if we got a deep discount....
