Cash The Checks

A blog about online entrepreneurship, finance, business and making that money.

Keep Spending Money
Tuesday August 12th 2008, 1:28 pm - Category: Spending

“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” - John F. Kennedy

While it’s true this is not a “mental recession” as it was called a while back, your actions will decide the future of the American economy. There can only be two possible results from this economic problems..

  • Americans get scared, they take their money out of the bank, they stop spending and start saving. This will cause prices to go up and jobs to be lost. Surely a real recession will follow.
  • Americans start spending money again and get confident with the market. The economy picks up again.
  • Believe it or not, the only way to get money back is to give it up in the first place. But we all need to do this. If you spend money at somebody’s business, they’ll get paid and perhaps spend that money where you work at.
    The biggest obstacle is not the housing market or gas prices, it’s FEAR.
    - Edwin, CashTheChecks.com



    United States Recession
    Wednesday January 23rd 2008, 12:09 pm - Category: Spending

     Stocks

    While it is still not clear the United States is in a recession, it looks like we’re heading in that direction.

    Here’s what the US has done or might do to help

    • Cut the interest rates by 0.75%, taking it down to 3.50%
    • Stimulus package which may give American families $1,000 to spend.

    So what do you need to do to help?

    • Spend money to pump money in the economy.
    • Have faith in the dollar and stocks, don’t sell everything.
    • Take advantage of the discounts, spend wisely.

    So what does this all mean? It means that there is always an advantage to every disadvantage.

    • House prices have been dropping and are expected to drop in the next few years. This it the time to take advantage of nervous sellers who aren’t sure how low their home prices will drop.
    • Gas prices will drop, as there are fears a US recession might slow down demand for oil.
    • To drive their slowing businesses, stores may have more sales to stave off the slowdown.


    Digging Yourself Out
    Monday January 22nd 2007, 6:09 pm - Category: Cash Info, Spending

    Often times when you owe money, what immediately comes to mind is this: “Let me just borrow more money to pay off this debt, then I’ll be alright.” But in reality you’re just digging yourself in deeper. When you’re already in a hole, the last thing you should do is keep digging. There comes a time when you should just cut your losses.

    So when you’re in a financial bind, what is there to do? Start downgrading, sell some things on eBay and start paying off those debts.



    Cyber Monday is Here!
    Monday November 27th 2006, 12:45 am - Category: Spending

    Cyber Monday

    Today’s the biggest day for online shopping. You’ve heard of “Black Friday” (the day after Thanksgiving), well this is the online version.
    The reason they call it “Black Friday” is because it’s the first day of the year where a lot of business go from being “in the red” (negative profits) to being in the black, earning a profit. For retail stores the real money is made in late November and December. All those bad months all get forgotten about during the holiday season.

    The reason they call it “Cyber Monday” is because Monday is when folks go back to work after the Thanksgiving holiday and use their employers’ computers (and high-speed internet connection) at work to do their shopping. Anything they couldn’t find at the stores they’ll buy online.

    It’s times like these I wish I had a store-front selling hard goods. People love scooping up good deals on days like these.



    My Headphones Purchase
    Wednesday November 15th 2006, 10:39 am - Category: Spending

    I was interested in purchasing some headphones, these really big ones, I ended up deciding on the Koss QZ-99 Noise Reduction Stereophone. Here they are..

    Koss QZ-99 Head Phones

    I got them in the mail yesterday and it turns out these headphones are forsome heavy-duty work or for working at the airport or something like that. Not only that, but they have me an instant headache because it felt like a complete pressure change when trying them on.

    So there’s another $50 down the drain. I’m going to be selling these on eBay, at least it’ll be another positive feedback on my account.

    It seems as if these noise-reduction headphones aren’t for me, so I’m getting some smaller ones. Here they are

    Ear Clip Headphones With Retractable Cord

    These have a retractable cord. That’s key because those wires always get tangled up. When you’re using them they always seem to get tangled up on something and after you put them away, getting them again and getting it untangled is such a hassle. The Koss headphones had a coiled cord and this one has a retractable cord. So we’ll see how it goes..

    Here’s a few studio headphones