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You Spend Two Full Months a Year Watching TV

Jackie — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:38:19 +0000

It’s not exactly breaking news to say people watch a lot of TV. And with new technology, we don’t watch less TV . . . we watch the same amount of TV, and then we watch MORE TV on our computers and iPads. So how much do we watch? Check out some numbers from a [...]

Here's How the Average American Spends the 24 Hours of Their Day

Jackie — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:33:41 +0000

I think we all get to the end of our day wishing that their were just a few more hours left to get EVERYTHING done. It makes you wonder what exactly are we doing with the 24 hours we have in each day. Well, the U.S. Department of Labor just released the results of their annual study in the Wall Street Journal on how we Americans use our time. And you'll be happy to know we work a little, we sleep a lot, and we don't waste our free time with ANYTHING productive.

Here's how the average American's 24 hours break down in a day and we'll also compare them to how we spent our hours in 2007, before the recession.

There Are Things Your Credit Card Company Won't Let You Buy

Jackie — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:57:19 +0000

I use my credit card/debit card for just about everything and if the credit card companies REALLY want to fully replace cash in our lives, they should let us be as SKETCHY as we want with the stuff we buy.

According to the website CardRatings.com from Smart Money, both Visa and MasterCard ban their card holders from buying chips at a casino, paying for online gambling, or even donating to certain charities. Like, for example, a fund for the document hacking site WikiLeaks.

How Did the Gulf Coast Spend the $754 Million From BP?

Jackie — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:29:17 +0000

BP has paid more than $754 MILLION to state and city governments in the Gulf Coast region because of the oil spill. The money came with almost no strings attached . . . just that it had to be loosely tied to recovering from the spill.

And the governments that got the money REALLY took that whole "loosely tied to the recovery" thing seriously. Here are some of the things that they've purchased . . .