Category Archive: Finance

It’s a Cheap, Cheap, Cheap, Cheap World

By Jonathan Timar | Published December 15, 2011

You know that old cliché saying that’s usually attributed to somebody’s grandpa? It goes something like this: “Used to be people understood the value of a dollar.” I’d like to update that saying a little bit for our modern age. Try this on: “It used to be people understood the [...]

Why Micro-stock Mega-sucks

By Jonathan Timar | Published April 7, 2010

I have been submitting my photos to Shutterstock.com for four years now. In a month I will close my account with them and never submit another photo again. Here’s why; sometime over the next few weeks I expect to finally crawl over the minimum payout threshold of $75. I do [...]

Free Credit Card Icon Pack

By Jonathan Timar | Published October 18, 2009

When needed some new credit card icons for The Limelight Shop, I was surprised to find that what was available online really wasn’t all that good. The options ranged from cheesy and outdated, to way to fancy to be professional. I just needed something in between. I wanted nice looking [...]

How To Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck

By Jonathan Timar | Published May 22, 2008

Living paycheck to paycheck is no fun, but with the exception of a lucky few born into privilege we have all done it at some point, or several points in our lives. Unfortunately a lot of us get so used to living that way that we come to view it [...]

Credit Cards Are Not the Devil

By Jonathan Timar | Published January 23, 2008

Some people have an irrational fear of credit cards. They are firmly convinced that these little bits of plastic are somehow possessed by the devil himself. The reasoning is that because credit cards can lead people into trouble that the cards themselves are the problem. Obviously this is not true. [...]

Debt Is a Prison, Don’t Get a Life Sentence

By Jonathan Timar | Published January 22, 2008

In June 2007, exactly seven months ago, I was in debt to the tune of $15,000. That may not sound like much, but consider that my annual after tax income as a recent broadcasting school graduate, working in retail while looking for a “real” job, was a meagre $13,000. That [...]