The Blue Cash card also has a non preferred version with no fee, 3% at grocery stores and 2% on gas and department stores.

I have a rewards card that would more than offset the 2 percent extra charge, so I'd still use that. However, I'd otherwise carry cash.

I used Good Hands to get a jump start once. They came fairly promptly. It was worth it.

I've slacked off buying Groupons and other daily deals, because the quality of the deals offered has generally declined. I generally stick to nice restaurants that are in my area. We're trying to cut our eating out expenses anyway (we used to and still mostly cook at home).

Like it or not, most of the things we do affect the environment negatively in some way. Since habits are hard to change, we need to take measures that can seem intrusive. Believe me, though, you'll adapt - either by using reusable bags more or paying the fee. The author says that he or she is all for trees and not f...more

Raising the retirement age to 67 would be justified ONLY if health reform were fully and aggressively implemented. When all is said and done, Medicare is a lot cheaper than private insurance to deliver the same set of benefits (including copays and deductibles) to the same set of people. That's because Medicare's barga...more

Perhaps it was inevitable that some idiot who didn't know what he was talking about mentioned Hitler. What I will add to the above analysis is that ironically, for Ryan's plan to work, it will need insurance regulations very much like the Affordable Care Act that he and the GOP have opposed with maniacal fervor. We've ...more

The last poster implies that Amazon and other online retailers are exempt from sales taxes. This is incorrect. Consumers are legally obligated to remit sales taxes on online purchases to their states. Now, nobody, including myself, does this... ... but one solution would be for the Feds to set up a system to collect...more

Leftovers are essential in my family. We don't have kids, but at this point, if our future offspring refuse leftovers, we will disown them.