Christmas is over, and it is little surprise that the time directly following Christmas represents the busiest time for store return departments. Many people are taking back unwanted Christmas gifts. Cash Money Life has some great suggestions for how to deal with unwanted Christmas gifts:

Sell it: Just sell it. Even if you don’t get “full price” you are still getting cash you didn’t have before — for free.
Regift: As long as you don’t get caught, regifting can be a great option. Just be sure to remember who gave you the present, and try to avoid regifting to common acquaintances. This …read more

Black Friday is coming up — right after Thanksgiving. I’m not a huge fan of shopping on Black Friday, but my husband does like to go out and get a few things for me at this time. It never ceases to amaze me that he is willing to brave the crazy crowds and traffic. But he does. Here are some of the things that my husband likes to do in order to make his Black Friday shopping relatively painless:

Leave me and our son home: Obviously, he is getting me gifts, so I can’t come along. But our son stays home, …read more

We are still more than ten days from the new year, but a majority of the world has already started retrospecting the last twelve months and forecasting the next twelve.
Jayvee inspects the culture of FAIL on the Internet and finds that video advertising is going to decline. Actually, the rate of growth of online advertising has reached a saturation point even though online advertising itself is continuing to rise.
In these tough times, when the economy has been slowing down, Clair suggests that choosing Linux and open source software has become more necessary. For those who are already in that path, there …read more