Funny Money
Archived Posts from this Category
- Obsessive Consumption
- Dumb Money: J.D. the Junk-Food King
- Dow 10,000 and Other Nonsense
- A Tightwad’s Lament (and Daily Links)
- What Squirrels Can Teach Us About Investing
- What Makes Us Tick: A Short Film About How the Stock Market Works (from 1952)
- My Great Disney World Adventure
- An Experiment in Cheap Living (from 1872)
- Don’t Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford
- Why Our Heating Bill Ballooned This Winter
- The Lean Dog of Despair Never Follows a Man with a Bank Account
- The $1500 Frisbee
- In the Beginning… The Genesis of Get Rich Slowly
- Should CNN Replace Stock Analysts — With Cats?
- Riches — Or Just a Competence?
- REAL Long-Term Investing: 7% Annually for 135 Years
- Your Thrift Habits: Money Tips from 1948
- Credit Cards Can Pay You Money?
- The Good Consumer
- Bookkeeping and You: Personal-Finance Propaganda from 1947
- Cat and Girl on Halloween
- Confess Your Shopping Sins with Spendster
- Redneck Math — or Wall Street Math?
- What is Money? A Basic Economics Lesson from 1947
- The Best Salesman in the World
- This American Life: Something for Nothing
- How to Win the Lottery
- Marvelous Magazine Ads from 1904
- iPhone or Millionaire?
- Young Entrepreneurs: Encouraging Children With Kid-Sized Businesses
- A Six-Year-Old with a Credit Card
- Frugality is Important
- Richie Rich and the High Price of Oil
- Motor Trend 1971 — 40 Cars Under $2500
- Grocery Store Mysteries: Cheap Milk
- Round & Round: Capitalist Propaganda from 1939
- How to Turn $500 into $7 the Hard Way
- Cat and Girl on Wants and Needs
- Extreme Personal Finance: America on $10 a Day
- The Wise Use of Credit: Money Lessons from 1960
- Ads I Hate: Athletic Clubs
- The Grand Illusion: Personal Finance Advice from Styx
- The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Contest Winners
- Penny Pinchers: Mart and the $10 Boots
- The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Book Contest
- The Benefits of Looking Ahead: Success Tips from 1950
- The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Guide to True Riches
- What I Like About Scrooge
- My Millionaire Schemes
- Day of Thanksgiving: Holiday Thoughts from 1951
- Ten Principles of Economics, Translated
- Mystery Checks in the Mail
- Using the Bank: State-of-the-Art Personal Finance (from 1947)
- Video: Credit Cards in the Blender
- How to Save a Dollar
- Make Mine Freedom: Economics Lessons from 1948
- Stock Tips from Ten-Year-Olds
- They’ll Give a Credit Card to Anyone These Days
- Developing Self-Reliance: Personal Empowerment Lessons from 1951
- PF LOLCAT
- Working Dollars: Investment Lessons from 1957
- Finding Your Life Work: Vocational Lessons from 1940
- Your Thrift Habits: Budgeting Lessons from 1948
- Tomorrow is Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day!
- The Real Estate Roller Coaster
- Lifestyles of the Rich and Stupid
- Mary Poppins on Compound Returns
- Original Income Tax Form from 1913
- Bank Robber With a Walker Caught Quickly
- Tiny London Apartment for $334,000
- Money-Making Hobbies (from 1938)
- Financial Nirvana: It’s the Little Things
- The American Frugal Housewife
- Real Financial Heroes
- Pennies From Heaven: Old Songs About Money
- How Not to Be Frugal: Too Many Magazine Subscriptions
- What to Do With All Those Pennies
- You Don’t Have to Explain the Math to *Me*!
- More Fun Than Dinner and a Movie
- Thank You for Supporting Blogathon!
- My Blogathon Command Post
- The Extraordinary Price of Dents
- Puttin’ on the Ritz
- Pennies from Heaven: the MegaPenny Project
- Father Tries to Make Mother Like Figures
- My Cheap Uncle Norman
- The 3rd Annual Nigerian Email Conference
- The Ridiculous Infomercial Review
- Penny Pincher of the Year Award
- Dollar-Bill Origami: Turn Your Money Into Art
- Financial Urban Legends
- How to Become as Rich as Bill Gates
- Why Don’t Doctors Know How Much Their Services Cost?
- Don’t Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford
- Pop Buys Pop (a GRS re-run)
- The British Monetary System, Demystified
- Monty Python: The Money Programme
- Money For Nothing (and Your Chicks for Free)
- Man Risks Life Savings on Spin of Roulette Wheel
- Coins for Making Change Efficiently
- Fontos Képek
- Reader Tip: Save Money on Iced Coffee Drinks
- Questions for Matthew Lesko, the Question Mark Man
- Trunk Clothes: A Sure Sign You Have a Spending Problem
- The Engraveyard: Money of Many Nations
- Little Lulu: Just a Gigolo
- The B-52s: Legal Tender
- A Year’s Worth of Credit Card Applications
- The Make Money Fast Hall of Humiliation
- How to Earn a 177% Rate of Return on BOOZE
- Australian Financial Plan: Win Lottery, Stash Under Bed
- Lessons About Money from the World of Warcraft
- The 9 Strangest Tax Write-Offs
- Lattes, iPods, and Masterworks: New Ways to Look at Money
- The Credit Card Prank: Crazy Signatures
- Reader Submission: Old Lady with Loads of Money
- The Wealthy 100: A Ranking of the Richest Americans, Past and Present
- ABBA: Money, Money, Money — with LEGO!
- Our First Lesson in the Costs of Homeownership
- 1000 Ways to Waste Your Money
- Who is Love 22…?
- Don Lapre’s Ultimate Road to Success
- MORE Thieves Using Construction Equipment to Rob Banks
- Stupid Thieves Fail at Complicated ATM Heist
- Where’s George? The Dollar-Bill Tracker
- The Torn-Up Credit Card Application
- Man 1, Bank 0
- Blogathon Theme: Funny Money

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