Random Stuff…

A got some random stuff to mention – so here goes…

Spendster.org

I also found out about a site called spendster.org. Interesting idea – you tell them (in a variety of ways) what you have wasted money on. Here is a bit more from the press release…

As financial and credit markets constrict, a new social media website launches today that allows people to calculate the true cost of unnecessary purchases, often regretted in hindsight, while they share them via personal videos or photos. Spendster.org, built by the National Endowment for Financial Education, allows people to share their costly mistakes while they rate and discuss those of others. The site also provides tools to calculate how costly items like unopened DVDs and spotless coffee makers really are and how much could have been saved if that money were put to more productive use. In addition to video and photo uploads, the site also provides a calculator that determines the actual cost of unnecessary and under-utilized purchases if paid for via credit card, how much these expenditures could have generated for retirement 40 years hence and even how much richer you’d be today if you’d put that same amount into Google stock in 2004.

NEFE hopes that Spendster.org will demonstrate to consumers the long-term financial effects of buyer’s remorse while beginning to educate consumers on their own personal financial needs and capabilities.

Home Depot Video Contest

I was made aware of a contest that Home Depot is putting on. It is a Youtube video contest that is similar to the FNBO contest that I won $500 on.

10 Day Give

I already have some cool testimonies from the 10 Day Give, but I will wait to share them until after it is over. You can share yours in the 10DG Forums.

And here are a few articles I have been reading this week…

• Prosperity and Christianity
• The Economic Earthquake of 2008; Implications, Vulnerabilities and Aftershocks
• How AIG’s Collapse Began a Global Run on the Banks
• Do not panic!
• Is Now A Good Time To Buy A House?
• Airline travel tips
• Focus on the things you CAN change
• Dear Congress, Wanna Help Your Country? Cut the Fat
• My 401k Is Losing Money. What Should I Do?
• A good home inspection is worth the money
• 6 ways to make some extra cash