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Shipwrecked 8/27/2007 There were two men shipwrecked on this island. The minute they got on to the island one of them started screaming and yelling, "We're going to die! We're going to die! There's no food! No water! We're going to die!" The second man was propped up against a palm tree and acting so…

There was a great king who once employed a merchant in his service as an ambassador to foreign courts. Now the merchant, before he went away, said to the king, “My own business requires all my care, and though I am always willing to be your majesty’s servant, yet if I attend to your business as I ought,…

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…

There are many reasons to keep our financial lives healthy. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Board have revealed another. “Couples with low credit scores are more likely to break up than those with higher scores.” If you let your debt get out of hand, your marriage will suffer. The researchers have…

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…

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…

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…

Samantha Jackson and Farzin Yousefian were planning a lavish wedding in Toronto. When the Syrian refugee crisis hit, the couple canceled their plans and instead are using the money set aside for their big day to sponsor a Syrian refugee family’s resettlement in Canada. They still got married, in a small…

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,…

Apple announced that they recovered more than 40 million dollars from their trash. The company recovered more 2,200 pounds of gold from recycled iPhones, iPads, and Macs. With gold valued at over $1,200 an ounce, the company gained over $40 million dollars from the recycling venture. Manufacturers use…

NFL wide receiver Ryan Broyles is making big money. The 27-year-old lives a simple, middle-class life. He is living on a $60,000 budget despite a salary of over one million dollars per year. Broyles is aware that roughly one in six NFL players files for bankruptcy within 12 years of retirement. Broyles,…

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…

Leon Delong got restless and decided to do something meaningful after he retired. He heard that city office towers were routinely throwing away half-used rolls of toilet paper. Leon began to gather them and deliver them to a local food bank, where they were given to those in need. He has been doing that…

Making a small change to the standard fonts used in documents produced by the federal and state governments could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Those are the conclusions reached by a resourceful 14 year old student who noticed that he was getting a lot more printed handouts in school than…

According to the WSJ.com only 68% of Americans spend less money than they earn, and almost a third having no saving. --Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell The Week, March 7, 2014 p. 34 Ephesians 4:28 (ESV) (28) Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands,…

When you are going through airline security to board a flight they make you empty your pockets. Travelers drop their change into the bin along with their other possessions to be x-rayed. In their haste to make it to the gate many of them don’t bother to pick the loose change up again. Last year travelers…

When Ira Karmiol paid his $278.00 electric bill online, he mistakenly entered an extra digit and paid The Public Service Company of New Mexico $2,787.00. He didn’t notice the error for a few days. When he discovered the error, he contacted the company who said they would act on his refund request in…

NPR.org reports that nearly 44 percent of Americans don’t have enough savings to cover basic expenses for more than three months in the event of a financial emergency like losing a job or unexpected medical care. They further report that almost a third has no savings accounts at all. --Jim L. Wilson…

Chuck Feeney co-founded “Duty Free Shoppers” and it made him rich. With the billions of dollars that he earned Feeney began a philanthropic foundation with the goal of giving away the entire $8 Billion fortune. He recently shut down the foundation after succeeding in giving away all but $2 million that…

A couple moving out of their home in Sudbury England contacted a local auction house to help them sell off items they no longer needed. Among the items they planned to sell were a pair of sphinx statues that the couple believed were replicas made in the 18th century. The Auction house didn’t question…

The owners of a London home pulled back on a deal to sell it after they found what they think is a mural painted by Britain’s elusive street artist known as Banksy on an exterior wall. The artwork, called “Achoo,” depicts an elderly woman sneezing, sending her dentures flying out of her mouth. It also…

Shane Houston and a friend from New Hampshire were on a metal-detecting trip in New England and obtained permission to search the ground outside a church in Maine. Houston said they found several interesting items, but the most interesting discovery was a 222-year-old copper penny dating to the first…

Just because we believe a person is free to spend their wealth as they choose doesn’t mean they should. The fashion house Gucci recently debuted faded denim overalls with fake grass stains on the legs. The overalls sell for $1,400 a pair. The Week, October 2, 2020 p. 6 I believe the person with God eyes…

Engineers from the Colorado School of Mines have found a new way to get minerals. Rather than dig them out of the ground, the researchers are finding resources in the trash. So far, the project has been able to turn left-over banana peels, eggshells, and rice husks into crystal-clear glass. The process…