Or, “Tips to Keep the Clothing Budget in Check When Someone in Your Family is a Brand Whore.” Just as some people have specific preferences for food, others have preferences for specific brands of clothing. In your family, this person may or may not be the same person. In ours, my husban...

Putting a price on anything is not an obvious process. All those pricing textbooks that you read are only good enough to tell you what to avoid. Given that an engineering education and a geek-desi background often biases you towards expecting logic in everything, I am sure many were horrified to lea...

"Donate To Goodwill Here" by The Right Reverend James W. Bailey Evil Digital Photography Photographed on location in Reston, Virginia. --- Every Monday morning I make a weekly assessment of the status of the American economy by noticing on my drive to work how much discretionary crap the rich white ...

I don’t do Freecycle anymore. I got to feeling like I had simply become a supplier for professional yardsalers. I guess that isn’t bad in that stuff I don’t use anymore still ends up getting used by somebody but I’d rather it get to someone more directly. Additionally, the la...

We were able to help 41 children!!!! Thanks to the wonderful generosity of the participating companies and the support of YOU our fabulous readers, 41 children will receive something special this Christmas through our Under the Tree program. Yes, toys are on their way! Some may have already arrived ...

Motion Computing is making it easier for existing customers to retire those older computers, dispose of them in a safe manner, and destroy the data hidden on those hard drives: Motion Computing®, a leader in mobile computing and wireless communications, announced today that it has partnered with Go...

“It was an experience. It was a real experience!” That was the proclamation my mother-in-law, Linda Kay VanFossen, used to describe her first visit to the popular Goodwill Outlet store near Portland, Oregon. Known to locals as the “Bins,” this is where local Goodwill thrift s...

Last century, we saw wealth created by large companies using economies of scale to keeps costs low so they could dominate markets. In the next generation economy [pdf], new wealth will be created by entrepreneurs through a network of great relationships built on trust. ___ ___ Trusting relationships...

Earlier this year, we brought word of the Cheap Ass Gamer drive to collect games for the US military troops in Iraq. Just a reminder that the drive isn't over and strong. Kevin Stewart, the fella in charge of the Donation Drive, is an independent contractor in Iraq and comes from CheapAssGamers webs...

I love the about:robots easter egg in Firefox 3 and have had a few people ask me what it means and who put it there. For those wondering where these bits of electronic fun come from, here’s the deal. Bug #417302 was logged in Bugzilla, originally requesting a page which changed all your open t...