I wrote about Dow Chemical when I financed my Tesla and got a 5.5% APR for 84 months. At the end of 2018, they paid a 60% rebate on the interest so my effective APR that year was 2.2%. For 2019, it seems they paid out only 50%, so my APR was an effective 2.75%. […]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Chase shut down my mom’s Starbucks prepaid card. I didn’t think much about it at the time, but when I went to log onto her account a few days ago, I got a login error. That’s NEVER a good sign. I then reset the password, logged on […]
A reader commented on yesterday’s Necker Island post, “Well you can still cash out MR at 1.33c, so would you pay $16K for Necker?” That was actually a GREAT QUESTION. So why am I doing it? Well let’s start with a few counter arguments to that question. Why would I pay $54K for a Tesla […]
I used to spend about 30-45 minutes every day when I was doing heavy MS. When you spend that much time at the post office, you will eventually talk about your lives and everything; I mean for a good time there, I talked to them more than I did my coworkers or friends. Anyhow, of […]
I’ve read horror stories of people buying gift cards that had been tampered with, and surprisingly, it has never happened to me before…well until today. I went to Safeway in a pretty well off suburb of Seattle. Went up to the gift card rack; tried to remember which Amazon gift cards had the easy peel […]