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  • Wedding Registry Snafu?

    I am similarly confused when dealing with the registry/invitation situation. When I married, I followed the rule about not asking for gifts in my invitation (i.e. including registry information) on the assurances of manners mavens and matrons of my family, that yes, givers will inquire about your preferences. Well, suffice it to say, this did ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by lilah45 on September 4, 2008

  • To Irked and Her Clueless In-Laws

    Get Rich Quick Schemes Do Not Work!!!!! Flip this House is a fake Read the Headlines-No One is Buying but Investors Prudie; In July, my mother passed away. She had an insurance policy that paid 100% of the burial plan she selected. She had even pre-paid to open and close her burial plot. Now, my father is on hospice. My siblings and I ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by nolan00 on August 21, 2008

  • If women bailed out and left the kids with him?

    What is most disturbing about this article is how it seems to put most of the responsibility on the woman, while barely mentioning the roles and responsibilities of men. Why are most of the statistics given on unmarried mothers and not the reverse? It seems as if part of the problem is that men see that leaving AND not raising thier children is ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by kazani on March 22, 2008

  • Open-loop gift cards

    I'm surprised that the writer did not call out the dynamics between Open Loop and Closed Loop gift cards. Closed loop cards can only be used at the retail brand indicated. Open loop cards (usually with a Visa logo or some such bank on them) are issued by the bank not the retailer, and can be used wherever the bank's cards are accepted (read: ...
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by DavidKai on December 21, 2007

  • Gift Cards, crossing generation gaps

    Granted, gift cards are generally not as satisfying to their recipients as other presents. But I enjoy them a great deal more than un-returnable popcorn tins and home-cooked breakfast kits from places like LL Bean. At least with a gift card comes flexibility. And I think the article, while making a number of good points, fails to take into account ...
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by pdiaznuny on December 8, 2007

  • Unitus

    Unitus is a wonderful charity, and one I would highly recommend to anyone who is seeking out a charity to donate to. Through my own search for an answer to your question, I've also come across a few others. Some I support generally, others I do so for more personal reasons. Also being in Toronto some of these are Canadian: Sick Kids ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by leonardlatchman on December 3, 2007

  • Oh! the bad weather??

    oh! the bad weather?? ask your Father... (the topic you deny) many of you are wise and learned fools, i see..... ''But as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also at the coming of the Son of Man.'' And thus, with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder ...
    Posted to Everyday Economics by flipp20 on October 24, 2007

  • Re: al "Global Warming" Gore

    oh, the bad weather?? ask your Father... ''But as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also at the coming of the Son of Man.'' And thus, with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven, and the fierce and vivid lightning also, ...
    Posted to Everyday Economics by flipp20 on October 24, 2007

  • An "inconvenient idiot"

    Very very long but..... worth the read.... -when you have time of course- ''you are blind, you are stupid, you are in the dark, in the mist and fog, wandering to and fro like a boat upon the water without sail, rudder or oar; you know not whither you are going.'' ...
    Posted to Everyday Economics by flipp20 on October 23, 2007

  • The Fray

    I think this article may be informational but defintely not helpful. It emphasizes just how self-centered the human race can be and we need to go in the opposite direction - that of unselfishness and giving what we can to future generations.
    Posted to Everyday Economics by shelleyrey on October 23, 2007
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