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God divided the hands into fingers so that money could slip through. Martin Luther

God divided the hands into fingers so that money could slip through. Martin Luther

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…

A small California town is offering visitors a $100 voucher if they will come and stay for at least two nights. The program known as “Visit Santa Maria Valley program” offers visitors $100 dollars which can be used at establishments offering food and drink in the area. Director of the local visitor’s…

WalletHub conducted a survey to see how Americans are coping with the Social Distancing mandates imposed on them by the government. They discovered that “36 million Americans use online shopping as their number one way to cope with social distancing.” My only question is what will their strategy be to…

Bruce McConville, a 55 year-old Canadian businessman, from Ottawa, Canada, used a very creative excuse to avoid paying his wife spousal and child support, as part of their divorce settlement—he burnt it! He told a judge in the Ottawa Supreme Court that he withdrew 1 Million Canadian Dollars ($750,000),…

The owners of a new restaurant in England dug up a receipt from a business that occupied their building more than 100 years ago. Ben and Lucy Cuthbert, owners of market Square restaurant said the receipt from the department store Lewis, Hyland, and Linom was in the floorboards they removed during the…

A man who accidentally threw a shoebox containing $23,000 into a recycling bin was relieved to get his money back. The man did not realize his mistake until the recycling bin had already been emptied into truck headed for the processing facility. He contacted the facility’s manager who advised workers…

Ben Shapiro is fond of saying: “Facts don’t care about your feelings.” There is a similar axiom, that says, “Cash doesn’t care about your deservingness.” Don’t worry about money, because money isn’t worried about you. Jesus spoke of the fickleness of lady Lucre this way: “moth and rust destroy. . . thieves…

Transportation Safety Authority officials said the amount of money left behind by travelers as they hurry through screening checkpoints continues to add up. In 2018, the dimes, quarters, nickels and pennies totaled almost one million dollars. The unclaimed money is currently deposited into a special…

Jack Whitaker was always kind to people and lived a normal life as a contractor in West Virginia. He was focused on the needs of others, including his wife Jewell and his granddaughter Brandi. Everyone thought that Jack and Jewell had the perfect marriage. Jack loved his wife dearly and she him. Each…

Sanitation workers in the Philippines found dozen of wallets blocking the flow of water through a drain. They contained credit cards and IDs, but not one of them contained any money. Video taken at the scene shows the workers removing the wallets and laying out the items inside including credit cards…

In Goodbye Things, Fumio Sasaki writes, “Psychologist Tim Kasser stresses that the enrichment of time will lead directly to happiness, while the enrichment of material objects will not.” –--Jim L. Wilson Goodbye Things, 164 Hebrews 13:5 (CSB) Keep your life free from the love of money. Be satisfied with…

In Goodbye Things, Fumio Sasaki writes, “The glory of acquisition starts to dim with use, eventually changing to boredom as the item no longer elicits even a bit of excitement. This is the pattern of everything in our lives. No matter how much we wish for something, over time it becomes a normal part…

In Goodbye Things, Fumio Sasaki writes, “Why do we own so many things when we don’t need them? What is their purpose? I think the answer is quite clear: we’re desperate to convey our worth, our own value to others. We use objects to tell people how valuable we are.” –--Jim L. Wilson Goodbye Things, 69…

In October 2018, an 84-year-old woman in Arizona returned from vacation only to receive a demand from Daniel Miller and an accomplice for $67,000. The duo claimed they had replaced her septic tank while she was away. Unfortunately the woman decided to pay the men in installments, first giving them $12,500…

“As a personal commodity, money is extremely elastic, in that you can theoretically accumulate an infinite amount of it, and your income fluctuates at different points in your life. Time, by contrast, is intrinsically inelastic: You cannot accumulate more of it, and you’ve never had any less of it. You…

Trulia, a real estate listing site conducted a survey of home owners. They discovered that 44 percent of Americans have regrets about buying their current homes. The most common source of regret was not choosing the right home size. A wise person will research and think very long about a financial decision…

The asking price of a New York City condo includes enough extras to allow the buyer to upgrade to a lavish lifestyle. The 15,000-square-foot duplex has an asking price of $85 million dollars, which is more than double the record for housing for the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in Manhattan. The price…

In May 2017, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said that total household debt in the United States had reached a record high, exceeding the previous high in 2008. The financial institution said household debt stood at $12.73 trillion. They said most of that debt consisted of student and auto loans,…

A driver in South Yorkshire picked up his new Ferrari 430 Scuderia from the dealer and started home. On a wet road, he lost control of the $258,000 auto sending it airborne, and burst into flames. After owning it for one hour, the high-performance supercar was reduced to a flaming twisted wreck. That…

The chief fiscal officer for the state of Illinois said she does not know how big Illinois’s pile of unpaid bills really is. The state sold $4.5 billion worth of bonds to pay down the estimated $16.6 billion it owes to contactors, health care providers, and others. Part of the problem is state agencies…

Steven Burke, a British construction worker was supposed to receive a check for $500. A misplaced decimal made the check $50,000 instead. An honest person would bring the error to the boss’s attention. And then there is Steven. He promptly went on a spending spree, spending $36,000 on designer clothes,…

70% of respondents to an ING survey “agree that Christmas is too focused on spending.” What would happen if people would focus on receiving instead of spending? No, I’m not talking about receiving Christmas gifts. I’m talking about receiving the greatest news ever announced—good news of great joy.—Jim…

Air Force veteran Bruce Rideout, 79, received a check from the U.S. Treasury. He doesn’t know why he received it and isn’t sure what to do with it. He doesn’t want to cash it, not because he is afraid that at some point the government will want it back, but because it is for only 2 cents. He has decided…