How many weddings do you expect to attend this year?
If you’re at the age where all your friends are getting married seemingly every other weekend all summer long, perhaps you should think again about saying “yes” to every RSVP that comes your way.
Putting on a wedding can be costly, as everyone knows. But attending a wedding has costs of its own.
Continue reading AVERAGE COST OF ATTENDING A WEDDING: $539
How long has it been since you were in college?
Remember how awesome it was to just head out to the university cafeteria and eat everything you wanted, just because you could? Hey – it was like an unlimited Las Vegas buffet, but without the cover charge. Unlimited pizza. Unlimited ice cream. Unlimited single-patty burgers (double-patty burgers only allowed on your first trip through the grill line).
Yeah, there’s a reason it’s called the Freshman 15, and it has nothing to do with the free beer you’re sucking down on weekends, either.
Continue reading TODAY’S CHALLENGE: SURVIVE ON MINIMUM WAGE FOR ONE MONTH
Everyone loves a little bit of competition.
Keeping up with the Jones, for example, can drive one to excess consumption at the expense of your credit card payments.
But maybe you’re putting too much pressure on yourself. Maybe, you’re a lot more rich than you think you are.
Do you consider yourself Awesome? Are you great at what you do? Are you a stellar 5-star performer at the top of your game?
Chance are, unless you’re George Clooney, you’re not amazing at all.
Fact is, you’re very likely extremely mediocre.
And that’s okay.
SometimesWeb Watchruns across websites that just don’t know what they’re supposed to be.
Think of it as website schizophrenia.
This is one of those sites.
Continue reading TAKE YOUR PICK: CELEBRITY NET WORTH, BRA SIZE, OR PLASTIC SURGERY?
It’s been no secret about how much money legalizing gay marriage could add to the economy. What with the parties, suits and gowns, flowers, food, music — it’s not just any party, it’s a celebration.
So Web Watch isn’t surprised to see what one recent survey had to say about what same-sex households liked to spend money on.
Continue reading GAY HOUSEHOLDS BUY MORE ALCOHOL THAN STRAIGHT HOUSEHOLDS
They say that doctors make a ton of money.
And some really do.
But after you take into consideration the many long hours that they put into education and refining their skills and knowledge, some would say that its relatively fair compensation for what they have to go through to be able to fix us when things go horribly wrong physically.
Really, would you want a doctor that wasn’t highly compensated taking care of your body?
We’ve all heard the expression that “Money can’t buy happiness”, and we’ve heard all the follow-up jokes about it just being a matter of where you shop.
It turns out that maybe those jokes were telling a little bit of the truth, after all.
Continue reading IT ENDS UP THAT MONEY ACTUALLY CAN BUY HAPPINESS
Parents: how much money do you leave under your child’s pillow when they lose a tooth?
Web Watch recalls that $0.50 was the norm for every tooth we lost, but we’ve heard more recent reports that the dollar value for a tooth has gone much higher today.
Before we get to the topic on hand, here’s another parent question: what do you do with all those teeth? Do you keep them? Toss them away? Make a creepy “tooth necklace” out of them? Be sure to tell us your family tooth traditions in the comments below.
Web Watch knows a lot of women who love their pets. A lot.
We know that they dote on their pets to such a great extent, that the pets are truly part of the family – even to the extent that these women would rather spend time with their pets than go on a date.
To them, their pets will always come first.
Continue reading FEELING LONELY, MEN? GUESS WHAT — WOMEN PREFER TO SLEEP WITH THEIR PETS
A question for all the parents who read Web Watch: how much money do you pay your kids in an allowance?
One would think this would be a simply question to answer, but it’s really a bit more complicated than one would think.
Are you the type of parent who pays an allowance to their children, no matter what? Or do you only pay an allowance as payment for specific jobs being done around the house?
Continue reading HOW MUCH MONEY DO KIDS MAKE WITH ALLOWANCE?
Bachelors, have you ever wondered why you’re going deeper and deeper into debt while your married friends seem to always be buying the latest cars, houses, or electronics?
It’s not because of the “Marriage Tax” or the deductions that their brood of kids gives them.
No, it’s because those married men aren’t wasting their financial resources on dating. Sure, there are other monetary obligations that arise from a serious relationship, but overall you can expect that you’ll spend less money when you’re devoted to a single woman than you will when you’re hounddogging around town after every piece of tail that’s out there.
Continue reading ONE REASON WHY MEN GO INTO DEBT? BLAME WOMEN.
You know how typically “Dad” is considered the primary breadwinner in most households, while “Mom” typically manages the home and kids?
Well, what if Web Watch told you that dollar-for-dollar, Mom is worth more than Dad is?
Web Watch remembers the old adage when we were just starting out to be able to sustain ourselves on our own.
“When you make your budget, you should always devote 1/3 to housing, 1/3 to transportation, and 1/3 for everything else.”
Now, we may not have been able to follow that breakdown exactly, but it’s not necessarily that far from the truth of how AMERICANS ACTUALLY SPEND THEIR PAYCHECK. Especially if you take into account the need for saving some money for retirement or a rainy day, that ratio may be better split into quarters:
“devote 1/4 to housing, 1/4 to transportation, 1/4 put away in the bank/IRA/investments, 1/4 for everything else”
That seems to be closer to the truth. Let’s take a look at how the average 48-year-old spends their average $63,091 annual salary (before taxes):
Continue reading HOW DOES THE AVERAGE AMERICAN SPEND THEIR PAYCHECK?
The Erotic Engine: How Pornography has Powered Mass Communication, from Gutenberg to Google
In 2006, the US adult industry made over $13 billion in revenue.
In revenue, porn brings in more money than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple, Netflix, and Earthlink combined.
Let’s say that last word again: combined.
Yes, online (and elsewhere) we can safely say, “porn is king”. Just like the porn industry is credited with the rise of VHS over Beta, the porn industry is also credited with pushing the technology envelope and make today’s Internet what it has become. Continue reading HOW MUCH MONEY DO PORN SITES MAKE?
