Compared to traditional home cooking, fast food is more immediately gratifying and pleasurable and, well, faster to prepare and consume, from beginning to end. But no matter what some people say (particularly right after a pricey run to the grocery store), dinner prepared by McDonald’s isn’t cheaper than dinner prepared at home.
The FDA just introduced a series of appropriately gruesome warnings for cigarette packaging and advertisements about how smoking can kill you. But it can also kill your finances.
Plenty of people survive on a monthly budget of $1,000 or less. But when you’re accustomed to spending $4,000 or $5,000 a month without thinking too much about it, abruptly switching to a $1,000-a-month budget requires some serious lifestyle adjustments.
Also: Is it better to invest or pay off your mortgage early? Is Hulu Plus worth the $10 a month they’re asking for it? Are you paying too much in property taxes?
A pack of cigarettes will soon cost nearly $11 in New York City.
In a survey of people with incomes over $75K, more than half of those polled say that they get more satisfaction from saving money than they do spending it—especially when we’re talking about purchasing jewelry, clothing, and luxury goods.
Read up and pay attention or you’ll have good reason to complain too.
A new study tries to explain the complicated reasons for how people make decisions to consume everything from Doritos to hybrid cars, Victoria’s Secret lingerie to New Balance sneakers.
Perhaps they’re not quite as odd as the Hot Waitress Index (a theory in which waitresses get increasingly more attractive as the economy gets worse), but these trends are still rather unusual—yet revealing—indicators of how the economy is faring.
Live free or die. And please stop by to shop for tax-free alcohol. New Hampshire, which doesn’t assess a tax on alcoholic beverages, is surrounded by states that do. And guess what? A disproportionate number of out-of-staters buy booze in the Granite State.
