Crash Survival Zone

In just the seven months since the stock market crash, the recession has aimed its death ray not just at the credit market, the Dow and Detroit, but at the very ethos of conspicuous consumption. Even those who still have a regular income are reassessing their spending habits, perhaps for the long term. They are [...]

Capitalism isn’t doing well these days leading the entrepreneurial among us to embrace bartering. Traffic to Craigslist’s bartering section has more than doubled since last year as people to try to make use of skills that might not otherwise have much value.

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Consumerist

Yes, times are tough. The big banks are on life support. Home prices are in the pits. The stock market’s tanked. Unemployment’s way, way up.

And … uh-oh. How are you doing? What about your home? Your investments? Your job?
How safe is it? What’s the worst that can happen to you?

We put that question to the [...]

Last year I wrote a very well-received post listing 100 money saving tips for the holidays that has helped quite a few people. However, you can only do so much with saving. What if you’ve cut back as much as you possible can? You need to start looking at the income side of the equation.

It’s [...]

1. Put an egg in your Ramen

2. F**k, alot. It’s free and it feels really good if you do it right. Heck, it even feels good when you do it ‘wrong’. Also, you won’t need the heat as high afterwards. (note: sorry I used ‘f**k’ instead of ’sex’,but it just seemed to fit better)

3. Don’t [...]

I have been barely surviving living frugally for nearly all of my life, although I have been taking this to the extreme these past five years. But now that many of you are also having to either cut back on your living expenses, due to unemployment, underemployment or fear that you will become un(der)employed soon, [...]

In the grip of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, America has undergone radical changes. Greed is no longer good and luxury is a shameful word. Paul Harris in New York analyses the tests facing the new president of a shattered nation

This new America is what Barack Obama has inherited. It is in [...]

As we spend the next few days thinking of ways to better ourselves in 2009, here are a few green resolutions to add to your list. Many of them will help you with your financial resolutions, as well, since going green can often save you money.

Save energy with simple steps like turning off lights and [...]

Inexpensive sparkling wines to drink on New Year’s Eve.

Seeing out a year filled with mostly grim headlines and ushering in a new one that threatens more of the same doesn’t exactly put one in the mood for Champagne. And given the noxious associations that now spring to mind at the mere mention of the word [...]

Buy low and sell high is unbeatable advice for investing - if you have a way of knowing when a price is low. Because it seems logical that the lowest price is available early in the game, those who sell stocks, real-estate, franchises and other investments are taught to create a sense of urgency when [...]