Last year, the average tuition costs for a private college increased by 4.3% according to College Board.  Think that’s bad?  The average public university saw increases in tuition equal to 8.3% in 2011.  It doesn’t take a math major to see that the cost of attending college is getting quite expensive these days.  At that […]

I love to talk with my friends about business ideas and goals they have to ‘make it big’ someday.  But one of my pet peeves is when I hear them say, “I wish there was a way that I could make money now.”  I almost have to keep myself from staring back at them with […]

When I was young, money was real. I couldn’t get a ham and cheese sandwich for a nickel or anything like that, but I could use the 2 dollars I’d been saving to buy a pack of cards from the game shop or my favorite candy for 50 cents. When my dad took us kids […]

When my home town Kroger store recently opened a gasoline station, I tried out their discounted fuel.  Not knowing exactly how the program worked, I simply asked for the biggest discount, which turned out to be $0.50 a gallon.  With my 18 gallon purchase, I saved $9!  Needless to say, I like this program! To […]