The Daily Green and LifeHacker both recently posted articles exposing myths about idling your car when you first start it up. Here are some key points from these articles/posts: it costs less money to turn your car off and restart it if you will be idling for more than about ten seconds (errands, pre-heating during [...]
I wanted to post something today (one of the reasons I blog is because I enjoy it) and I decided on the subject of saving money to stay in your budget. Spend Money Wisely, A Frame of Mind One way to increase your budget without extra money is to spend it in a smarter way, [...]
Budget For Your Finances and Your Weight Looking at ways to trim the budget and trim your waist line? Consider eating smaller lunches. For example, on this blog you may have noticed I eat fast food often. I’ve slimmed that down some but here are some conservative estimates on savings I could have, that you [...]
I went to the Gas Station today and grabbed a gallon of windshield washer fluid, it was $3.09 before tax. My gasoline was only $2.69 before tax. Does windshield washer fluid, like milk really cost more than gasoline to make? I can’t imagine how it could. Maybe I’m just ranting, but I can’t make sense [...]
Its interesting to me that milk is more expensive than gasoline. I googled this today and found a post by The Onion, and it expresses my confusion over this fact much better than I can, so here’s the Onion’s post from June 27, 1998… …for some inexplicable reason, gasoline, a steadily depleting, non-renewable fossil fuel [...]