Over the past few months, I have seen a lot of new LuLaRoe businesses popping up. LuLaRoe is a company that sells clothing (mostly women's, though some children's and men's) through home-based parties and internet parties. I have purchased a couple of pieces of LuLaRoe clothing, both in parties held by friends and parties held through Facebook. I like some of their stuff. It's cute. But I worry about the number of people getting into the … [Read more...]
Scam Alert – Domain Renewal Group
We interrupt this regularly scheduled retrospective to bring you a scam alert. That's right, someone attempted to scam me. Conveniently, I'm smarter than they think and they certainly didn't catch me. Yesterday, while skimming my mail (mostly junk - don't these people have better things to spend their money on?) I came across an envelope from Domain Renewal Group. Now, I have never purchased a domain through Domain Renewal Group, and I … [Read more...]
Standing up for your financial self
(Thanks to everyone for updating their bookmarks to the new site. I realize that the name change is a bit confusing, but in the past couple of months, someone snatched up all domains that would make sense for a site named A Dollar a Day, so I decided the best option was to do a rename. Moving from Blogger gives me a lot more freedom. I may write up a post in the next few days detailing how I made the move, for anyone who happens to be thinking … [Read more...]
I still don’t like hidden fees
I really like when sites where you can buy plane tickets list the price with the tax and fees. Then you know exactly what you're going to be paying when you buy the ticket. Which is nice because if you travel and stay in a hotel, your hotel bill is all but guaranteed to be filled with taxes and fees of all sorts. Hidden fees continue to drive me crazy, and I may have a new favorite hidden fee. And when I say "favorite," I mean "fee I find … [Read more...]
The spammers are costing me money!
I have text messaging on my phone, but I don't have an unlimited plan. I pay 10 cents to send a text and 2 cents every time I receive one. I've done the math, and at this point, I just don't send and receive enough text messages to make the unlimited plan worth it. For now, I'm content to pay per message. Except now, I have started getting spam texts. Porn spam texts, of course. I knew that spam texts were common for people with unlimited text … [Read more...]