Tag Archives: money

Alaskans will receive their PFD and energy rebate deposits early

♦ August 21, 2008 ♦ 1 Comment

The big news in Alaska today is that Permanent Fund recipients will get their money early this year.  All people that are approved and signed up for direct deposit will receive the money on September 12.  Mailed checks will be sent on the 30th.  Right now the estimate is that the total amount will be …

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Print your own (Monopoly) money

♦ August 19, 2008 ♦ 70 Comments

Here are links to .pdf files so that you can print your own Monopoly One Dollar Monopoly Five Dollars Monopoly Ten Dollars Monopoly Twenty Dollars Monopoly Fifty Dollars Monopoly One Hundred Dollars Monopoly Five Hundred Dollars These used to be hosted by Hasbro but for some reason they changed the link and I can no …

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Bingo

♦ April 11, 2008 ♦ 1 Comment

Bingo Originally uploaded by zieak I went and played bingo at the Sons of Norway hall tonight. I could have won one of the games but I somehow missed one of the squares. When I say “somehow” I mean “was so dumb i…”

Money and famous places

♦ March 15, 2008 ♦ 3 Comments

I saw a string of photos that someone had made using toys, postcards, and money in the foreground of photos of famous places. I’m imitating that with a few pictures in D.C. and also did it one time in Cambodia at Angkor Wat.

Eight ridiculously frugal ways to save money

♦ January 16, 2008 ♦ 2 Comments

In our quest toward financial freedom we’re doing a number of practical exercises to reducing expenses. But in brainstorming ways to save money we’ve also thought of some methods we’ll be skipping. Here’s my list of ridiculously frugal ways to save money. Dumpster dive. For food. There are quite a few people that do this …

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