by bintangkecil on Sunday, April 12th, 2009 | Business, Humour, Inspiration, Knowledge, Life | 16 Comments

Where would you hide your money at home?
Where are the best places to hide your precious money?

If someone breaks into your house and looks for money, where are the last places to find?

Here are our best ways to hide your extra money around the house (especially if you cannot buy a safe or don’t want to buy a safe because it is a waste of money):

Wall Lamp
Do not tightly screw the bulb to the socket. Burglar will think it’s a broken lamp and you will not burn your house down.

Egg Carton

Scale

Paper Towel

Tape Player
Burglars won’t look at tape players anymore, won’t they? let’s hope they will only take electronics that have “values” nowadays.

Trash Bag Box

Decorative Doll

Toilet Cover
Again, don’t forget to put your dollar bills into a ziploc bag, just in case you want to wash the cover and drop the money inside the toilet bowl.

Dining Table
Some tables do not have holes where you can slip your money but burglars won’t be interested in dining tables, will they?

Hairspray Can
This is a special designed hairspray can. You can twist the bottom and save your money in it.

Trash Bin
Make sure you put your money into a ziploc bag first before hiding it under the trash bin.

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by nate on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 | Coupons, Deals, Hot | No Comments

Yoghurt-mania! Here’s a good news for you all! Savings information from Blogoncherry team for this Winter!

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by wildcherry on Thursday, January 1st, 2009 | Business, News | 2 Comments

Start your saving habits now! Piggy Banks from Amazon

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Recession-wary Americans embraced the virtues of thrift this Christmas, with stores reporting a clear rise in the popularity of piggy banks.

“We have been selling coin banks really well,” said Laura Kellner at Kikkerland Design Inc. in New York City, whose stylish chrome pig is priced at $31.

U.S. savings levels have increased markedly in recent months as households adjust to a yearlong recession and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

The downturn has shattered house prices and the value of retirement accounts which, in turn, has reinforced the necessity to systematically put funds aside for the future.

Retailers said this translated neatly into a gift that captured the spirit of the times.

“We definitely noticed a trend with the piggy banks,” said Erin Mara at Homebody, a design store in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC.

“People were very upfront about the need to save…the pig is very symbolic of that sentiment,” she said.

Personal saving as a proportion of U.S. disposable income rose to 2.8 percent in November compared with zero back in April, but remain well below the 10 percent range it occupied back in the early 1980s.

In fact, the shift from consumption to saving will be a crucial factor in determining the pace of the country’s economic recovery, which many economists see gradually taking shape in the second half of next year.

If shock over the housing and stock market’s losses sends the savings rate all the way back to the 11.2 percent notched in 1982, after the United States had endured two painful back-to-back recessions, it will prolong the current downturn.

That would also illustrate what the influential British economist John Maynard Keynes called the ‘paradox of thrift’.

This described how the personal virtue of saving for the future becomes a collective ill if everyone does it at the same time, causing domestic demand to collapse and hurting everyone’s savings because this slows the entire economy.

Judging by the sale of personal safes this season, people are not taking any chances.

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by wildcherry on Monday, July 14th, 2008 | Business | 15 Comments

After the Bear Sterns debacle few months ago, some people are very optimistic by saying the worst is behind us. These same people are also the ones that tell investors that banks and financial institutions are at bargain prices. Well i have been reminding anyone that talk to me about those “opportunity” that the worst is yet to come. For those that invest in the financial, they keep on seeing their investment hitting new 52 week low every day.

This weekend big news is about Indy Mac Bank, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac. Indy Mac Bank become the biggest bank and mortgage lender so far that has gone bankrupt. Today there are long lines of concern clients at Indy Mac Bank branches. Some of these clients are able to get most of their money out, some are not as lucky.
Here’s my next warning..the Indy Mac bank won’t be the last one that goes bankrupt. Analysts predict there might be up to 150 banks in risk of going bankrupt. So please make sure your bank is financially sound or else it might take days, months or years if they ever close. Although deposits up to $100k is Fdic insured but any redemption won’t be a quick process. Many of Indy Mac clients hoping to get 50 cents on the dollar above the insured limit.

This remind me of what happened in Asia during financial crisis. Indonesia in particular when many banks went bankrupt or went through massive consolidation. The Indonesia government had to bail out many of the banks….sounds familiar?If you have any question regarding your financial institution or any other concern you can post it here.

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