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.
You probably spend more on beer, cable, pets, day care, and health insurance than you think. And you wouldn’t believe what some couples will spend on their wedding day.
A pack of cigarettes will soon cost nearly $11 in New York City.
You know those guys who stand outside the office building for a smoke? How come they never wear coats? So it was 40-degreeish here in New York City today, drifts of snow still lining the sidewalks, and the usual clutch of office workers stood outside my midtown Manhattan building puffing away. I just don’t understand [...]
