Month: April 2009

Looking for a relatively painless way to save money? Stop buying things you don’t need. Check out this helpful article: http://green.yahoo.com/blog/the_conscious_consumer/63/common-money-wasters.html

Financial wizards have managed to buy preferred treatment just as the sacrifices of American retirees help pay off Wall Street’s losses. http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/apr2009/pi20090414_041627.htm

A fun site to explore and find on dozens, no hundreds, of interesting things from sex to global warming. Take a look and decide for yourself: http://www.livescience.com/

If a reader wants to establish their own website like this one I can testify that it is not difficult and it is not expensive. My son, Chuck, has a website hosting business. This site costs about $80 per year from him and includes the disk space, a personal domain name (mine is jcharlescheek.com), and… Continue reading YOUR OWN WEBSITE?

Here is a website you may want to review: http://www.ftc.gov/MoneyMatters. It was created by the Federal Trade Commission to help consumers deal with some of the results from the economic times we’re in today including some heavily advertised scams. Here is the FPC introduction statement on their site: It’s become an all-too-familiar headline – lay-offs… Continue reading Dealing with Money Matters including Scams.

Posted by It’s Only Money Blog April 02, 2009 20:02PM Categories: Taxes If you were looking for a job in 2008, you might be able to deduct the expenses against your taxable income. But you must itemize deductions and there are other limits. Read on for the details. The IRS considers many job-hunting costs to… Continue reading Itemizing job-search expenses on your tax return.