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"Unconsumption" Blog Considers the Life Cycle of Products

Advertising critic James Twitchell has a saying: The problem with American culture is not that it's too materialistic. The problem is that we are not materialistic enough. By that he means that Americans don't truly care about things. What we care...

9:22 AM on Mon Jun 29 2009, by McLaren and Torchinsky, 0 views, 31 comments

Time to do away with coins? "Coins were originally designed to be durable for daily transactions and fragile bills for infrequent large transactions. Now, for many, coins are considered a worthless nuisance." [Consumer Reports Money]

1:05 PM on Wed Jun 3 2009, by Alex Chasick, 0 views, 104 comments

Banks Want Taxpayer Aid To Buy Toxic Assets From Themselves

This is one of those news stories that leave sensible people scratching their heads and wondering what our financial system has come to. The Wall Street Journal article about this is behind a pay wall, but James Kwak at Seeking Alpha lays out the...

4:12 PM on Thu May 28 2009, by Laura Northrup, 0 views, 25 comments

No, The U.S. Mint Has Not Released $20 Coins Into Circulation

I've always thought that the U.S. should bring back larger-denomination coins. I like concluding an evening out in Canada or in the Euro zone and discovering that there's the equivalent of $14 or so in change sitting in my pockets. A man in...

5:16 PM on Wed May 20 2009, by Laura Northrup, 0 views, 64 comments

Replacing Damaged & Jacked Up Currency

Did you have a few brews and decide it'd be funny to light cigars by burning $100 bills? If you have at least half of it left, you can get it replaced. Here's how.

11:54 AM on Sat Apr 18 2009, by Bargaineering.com, 0 views, 50 comments

These Martha Stewart/Kmart Lounge Chairs Keep Cutting Off Fingertips

Holy $#!@, this lounge chair will eat your fingers! Fox5 New York has a video report on dangerously unsafe lounge chairs sold at Kmart under the Martha Stewart brand. Naturally (we're not making this up), the chairs are designed to complement the...

1:19 PM on Thu Apr 2 2009, by Chris Walters, 0 views, 85 comments

Seeking Used Skee-Ball Games

UPDATE: Roy & Friends Find Used Skeeball Machine

9:59 AM on Thu Mar 26 2009, by Ben Popken, 0 views, 69 comments

Get A Real Mystery Shopping Gig With Consumer Reports

Hey Consumer Reports is hiring actual mystery shoppers to do actual mystery shopping. You can earn some coin, help out other consumers at the same time, and help with the results that end up in the Consumer Reports magazine. Pretty swell. The job...

1:02 PM on Fri Apr 3 2009, by Ben Popken, 0 views, 58 comments

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Domino's Accidentally Gives Away 11,000 Pizzas in Bailout Promotion

5:00 PM on Fri Apr 3 2009, by Ben Popken, 0 views, 2 comments

3 Last-Minute Tax Tips

We're less than two weeks away from April 15, and while many are basking in the glow of a nice tax refund (though we shouldn't be letting the government use our money for free, but that's a different post), others are just starting their tax...

10:05 AM on Fri Apr 3 2009, by freemoneyfinance, 0 views, 41 comments