Immigrant Money

I was thinking the other day why I have not bought into the hype of “enhanced” cellphones yet – read iPhones, Blackberry devices, Droid based cellphones, Windows Mobile-based “smart” phones, etc. and I came up to a simple answer – there is no device on the market that can do it all in the best [...]

In the spirit of a New Year Resolution I decided to try some new (for me…) websites for additional income streams to our family budget. The ones I found and have started using are www.swagbucks.com and www.mturk.com, the later being part of Amazon. The goal was to find such “work”, that will provide some easy [...]

Through the recent years we have been searching for an alternative to the US type of dish-washing/scrubbing sponge. We used to buy a pretty big pack of name brand US Style sponges at Costco – the last package we bought lasted for about a year – but they raised the price of this product.
The brands [...]

From the many New Year Resolutions I’ve had in the past, the last one I thougt of might actually be one of the few that I will be able to follow through. It has been three months now, since I thought about my 2009 New Year resolutions and I’m glad to say that for once [...]

In 1998 I was in my last year of college and my financial future was still looking pretty grim. I did not have any debt at that time,  thanks to the fact that tuition for college and higher education in general was still provided for by the government for the most part. The college I [...]