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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 21 views
Carrie Rausch, a 108 year-old woman can live her remaining years in comfort thanks to help from strangers. She lived in the same assisted living facility for three years, and was in danger of losing her home because her financial reserves were almost gone. Rausch’s daughter did not want her mother to…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
Donnie Davis was Tristan Jacobson’s guardian. She wanted to adopt the 9-year-old was by his birth mother. She could not afford the $10,000 in legal fees so Tristan took matters into his own hands. He began selling lemonade on the street. His little stand began to attract hundreds of generous customers…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
Police in Austria say they found more than $108,000 worth of Euros floating in the Danube River, but they still have no idea where the money came from. A young boy saw the money floating by and jumped into the river to get it. A bystander thought he was trying to kill himself, so he called police. Since…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
When the “Our Place Restaurant” in Manfield, Texas ran out of soup, they would not discount their Saturday Special or offer a substitute to Dwain Downey. Instead of shrugging it off, Downey, who happens to be an attorney, sent them a demand letter for $2.25, along with an additional $250.00 fee for writing…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
190 years after Thomas Jefferson died, a lock of his hair sold at a Texas auction for nearly $6,875. Heritage Auctions in Dallas said the sale involved 14 strands of Jefferson’s hair that were saved by his doctor at the time of his death in 1826. Though the buyer wished to remain anonymous, Heritage…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
A penny isn’t worth much, but they can be quite valuable. Otha Anders, who lives in Ruston, Louisiana, recently redeemed 45 years of pennies that he had collected in plastic jugs and was able to deposit $5,136.14 into his bank account. –Jim L. Wilson http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/man-pretty-penny-5k-cashing-coin-collection-34828804…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
An anonymous couple dropped a check for $500,000 into a Salvation Army kettle as the annual collection season began. A spokesperson for the local organization, Julie Borgen said the previous record for a single donation was $25,000, and typically a kettle takes in about $30 an hour. Borgen said the bell…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A Houston man said his faith in humanity was restored after a stranger paid his car repair bill, which was nearly $2,000. Ken Burkitt said he was chatting with a man at the restaurant he managed at the time. He joked that his car had a problem and that he had to turn the steering wheel all the way to…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In 1996, 58% of students used loans to finance their education. At graduation they owed less than $20,000. In 2015, 71% of graduating students took out loans and owe an average of $35,051 each. We are launching our children into the world already financially indebted. They are mortgaging their future,…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 1 view
Outstanding credit card debt in the United States is expected to climb to more than $900 billion. That will bring the average household credit card balance to $7,813. Most Americans underestimate what they actually owe. In one survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, respondents underestimated…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
“The average American with credit card debt owes more than $15,000.” Our massive debts have spawned a whole community of experts explaining how to manage or get rid of the debt. “The strategy begins with cutting up those cards that have the debt.” Then have a strategy to begin paying them off, one by…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Kent Broyhill was a student at the University of Nebraska. Like a lot of college students, always trying to find a place to park on a crowded campus, he collected a number of parking tickets. When told the university only accepted cash for the fines, Broyhill promised to return with the bills. Alas,…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Los Angeles Clippers Forward Josh Smith will be taking a pay cut this year. “I do have a family, so it’s going to be a little harder on me this year. But I’m going to push through it.” You would find it difficult too, I am sure, if you had to get by on only $6.9 million this year. It doesn’t matter how…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Michael Gerson, an opinion writer for the Washington Post wrote an expose of state sponsored gambling, mainly lotteries.. Instead of reigning in spending and or raising taxes, the hard choices, the government is in the business of treating its own citizens as marks and dupes. “The lottery is a particularly…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
U.K. firm Intelligent Environments has a product to help over spenders manage their money better. They link an electronic bracelet with the customers’ bank account and send a gentle buzz warning when the account balance gets close to a preset limit and delivers an electric shock if it dips below. There…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A Texas woman was awarded over $229,000 because a cable company placed 153 automated calls to her cell phone. Araceli King said, the calls were meant for the person who had the cell number before her, and even though she told the company, the calls did not stop. The cable company said the calls were…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Ken Slusher says he received such a large bill that it would be funny, if it wasn’t creating problems for them to finance a new home. Their cell phone provider sent them a bill for $2 million for one month of service. He says the problems began when they switched carriers, and the first bill was six…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
A twenty-three-year-old employee of Google is saving 90% of his income by living in a box truck parked inside the company’s headquarters. The engineer named Brandon, says he is only in the truck while sleeping or doing laundry. He confirmed that he uses perks provided by the company such as gourmet food,…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 30 views
When Charles and Frances Hamlin celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary, they decided to see if they could recreate everything, including the $8 price. The Hamlins still had the original receipt from the Poinsett from 1947. Today, a room in the hotel costs between $250 and $300, although Hamlin said…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
A survey by LifeWay Resources questioned Christians from Alabama to Wyoming and found that most believe that it is sinful to lend money to someone who can’t afford to pay it back. Most of those who responded also said they want the government to protect consumers from loans with excessive interest, yet…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Kynan Eng is president of a computer company that uses computers and brain research to help people live better lives. Eng wanted to use his expertise to respond to online questions about the intersection of neuroscience and human-computer interaction. When we went to Quora, he found himself distracted…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Larry David was a co-creator of the television sitcom, Seinfeld. The success of that show has made David a multimillionaire. His success however didn’t stop his mother from worrying. Larry David said his mother would ask him, even after Seinfeld was the No. 1 show on Television, “Are they going to keep…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
A water bill sent out in 1969 was finally returned to the sender, nearly 46 years later. The bill, totaling $1.40 was sent out by the Brunswick and Topsham Water District to a resident of Topsham in October 1969. When it arrived, the customer’s post box had been closed, so the bill should have automatically…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Ron Webster was thinning his book collection when he discovered a text on human anthropology that he checked out of the Liverpool library in 1953. Webster, 91, took the book into the library and waited with the clerks for the library manager to arrive. The clerks calculated the 61-year fine to be $7,700.…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Americans have a fixation with winning lotteries. The one 99.99 percent sure thing with a lottery is that you will be poorer for playing. In a recent record setting Powerball lottery the odds of winning were 1 in 292 million. That is about the same as flipping a coin and getting the same result, (heads…