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New $100 Bills Coming in October

Chris Chaberski — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:11:55 +0000

Get ready to throw away all those ratty old Benjamins that are just laying around your house—the newly designed $100 bill will be going into circulation in October. (Just kidding about throwing away the old ones. They’ll still be recognized as legal tender.) The bill bearing the face of Benjamin Franklin is the world’s most [...]

Girl, 12, Makes Waves By Showing Up to School with $20,000 in Cash

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:13:47 +0000

They say you’ll have more earning power if you stay in school. Never has that theory been proven more than it was this week in Taylor, Michigan. An unidentified 12-year-old girl showed up to school with $20,000 in cash in her backpack. She reportedly got it from another child who lives across the street from [...]

5 Quick Facts So You Finally Know What a 401(k) Is

Kathy Landin — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:19:38 +0000

We all kind of know what a 401(k) is. It’s retirement money. But beyond that, what actually is a 401(k)? These aren’t the things we discuss with our parents around the dinner table before we’re thrust out into the working world. What started out in 1978 as a way to encourage more Americans to save [...]

Man Returns $1,200 to Completely Rude and Ungrateful Owner

Drew Weisholtz — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:21:25 +0000

Honesty is the best policy, right? Kyle Osborn may not be so quick to agree with you. Osborn recently returned $1,200 in cash he found in an envelope in Harrisonville, Missouri to its owner, only to have the owner question whether all the money was there. Osborn, 29, is a tatted up auto detail shop [...]

10 Crazy Kickstarters to Waste Your Money On

Emerald Catron — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:25:25 +0000

Kickstarter is a wonderful, magical place, where you can buy "luxuriously rugged" men's underpants, or help bring chocolate-dipped, pretzel-sprinkled beer-flavored marshmallows into the world. But not all of the projects people are trying to do are so awesome.

Stainless Steel Paper Clip is So For Money and It Doesn't Even Know It

Chris Illuminati — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:30:17 +0000

Back before we were pulling in mad cash for writing this blog, several of the writers and editors used common office supplies for other purposes. We used bulldog clips during office S&M sessions, scrap paper as kindling to heat the office and paper clips to hold our dollar bills together. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA! That was a joke. [...]

$300K in Gold Dust Found in Sacramento Home

Kyle Dowling — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:15:04 +0000

If you live in Sacramento, it’s time to start tearing out the walls: these homeowners stumbled over roughly $300,000 in gold dust during a heater installation. Back in September, two HVAC installers from the company Clark & Rush found twelve baby food jars filled to the top with gold dust. In a moment which must [...]

You Won't Believe How Many Families Do Not Have a Bank Account — Dollars and Sense [POLL]

Mike Adams — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:00:48 +0000

It might seem almost impossible to operate in today’s economic world without the use of a bank account, but a new survey suggests that many Americans are actually doing it, opting to finance their daily lives with quick cash services and prepaid credit cards. A survey released earlier this week by the Federal Deposit Insurance [...]

How Much Money Do Parents Shell Out in Allowance? — Dollars and Sense

Shauna Wright — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:30:09 +0000

Lots of adults remember receiving an allowance when they were growing up — but chances are good it wasn’t what today’s kids get. A new poll reveals modern children pocket almost $800 a year from their parents. The survey, conducted by the American Institute of CPAs, found that among the 61 percent of parents who [...]

Do You Live Paycheck to Paycheck? — Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:30:38 +0000

Thanks to the great recession more folks are living paycheck to paycheck than they were in rosier economic times. However, according to a survey of 3800 workers by Career Builder, the percentage that need their next payday to pay their financial obligations is down a bit this year The poll found that 40 percent of [...]

Can the Nationwide Drought Wind Up Costing You Money? — Dollars and Sense

Shauna Wright — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:05:54 +0000

The record-breaking heat that’s recently affected much of the country has resulted in soaring utility bills — and that may not be the only way it hits your wallet. American consumers could also soon see higher prices for meat, dairy products and all sorts of other goods because of the drought those high temperatures have [...]

Win Cash and Get a May Payday

Adam West — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:48:14 +0000

Want to win cash this month? If not, then stop reading. If on the other hand, you wouldn't mind having an extra $1,000 to spend, then keep reading. Every weekday through the month of May, be listening for the official May Payday cue to call. When you hear it, all you have to do is be the 25th caller to 1-877-853-WINS. For those of us that are numerically impaired, that translates to 1-877-854-9467. Go ahead and program that into your speed dial. A cool grand...pretty sweet. But wait, there's more!

Now, That's Some Cold, Hard Cash!

Adam West — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:50:29 +0000

Frigid temperatures in El Paso caused the usual kinds of problems around the city, like the usual dead batteries, slippery roads and sidewalks, and a few broken pipes. Pretty standard fare. So, when plumbers were called to a condo to repair some pipes that had burst, what do you suppose they found? Well, would you [...]