Have some old gold jewelry and need some cash? Here's how to find out what it's worth before you sell it … Many stores and websites will pay you for your jewelry based (mainly) on its precious metal content. For those that advertise online, they offer you a postage-paid envelope, you mail in your valuables, and a few days later you get a check and ride off into the sunset. That's how it's supposed to work, anyway. Some people will be, shall we say, a bit disappointed with the size of that check. Gold jewelry is usually valued as scrap This stands to reason. Cash for gold places will value yo ..read more

Sometimes the things I spend my time on leave me shaking my head. This post from Accidentally Retired on how you don't need multiple streams of income to become wealthy hit me between the eyes a bit. He also tweeted: You don't need multiple income streams to become wealthy. You ONLY need to spend less than you earn and invest. That. Is. It. @AcdntlyRetired My start in chasing pennies I started “trying to make a buck on the Internet” shortly after I got married. One of the first books to this end shares a title from the tweet above: Multiple Streams of Income by Robert G. Allen. I figured out ..read more

One of my miniature income streams hit a milestone. Aim for this for passive referral income … One advantage of having a lot of little income streams is that it reduces dependence on a single income stream, like a job. Have many little bosses instead of just one big one. Any income outside of “normal working hours” brings you closer toward financial independence, and immediately improves your financial posture. Direct income — money you earn for doing something — pays you once but building up indirect, automated income streams pay you over and over again. (Work towards these as you can, becaus ..read more

Some of the most popular posts on this website lately have been about currency — particularly fancy serial numbers and errors. I continue to get a lot of questions through email and on the Facebook group about what kinds of bills are worth more than face value. This post concentrates on a kind of serial number that's common enough that more experienced collectors probably wouldn't save them. Nonetheless, there is a good market for them on eBay. Trinary serial numbers for the new collector More experienced collectors oftentimes say that these kinds of bills are not fancy or that they’re “s ..read more

These two Chromium-based web browsers pay you for using them. No tasks, no clicking, nothing … The major web browsers Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. are all free, and they all do perfectly well at loading up your favorite web pages. They don't pay you just to use them, though. That would be asking way too much, right? Here are two web browsers that pay you to use them Brave and CryptoTab don't think that's too much to ask at all. These are two Chromium-based browsers (i.e., very much like Google Chrome) that have integrated passive income streams. Seriously. All you need to do is u ..read more