Click here to read my first post in the Financial Peace University review. The first class was last week and I’ve had time to let my impressions gel. As you can see from the materials shown here, the fee (mine was $90, but prices vary) is not for materials alone. The paper inside the fancy [...]

Dave Ramsey claims to teach people how to manage finances, get out of debt, save money, and make good investments. He is the author of a number of books on personal finances and has a syndicated prime-time radio show in which callers describe their financial situations and get free advice. The first website linked above [...]

What can be better than free gas? It’s harder to think of answers as prices continue to rise. We purchased one of the gas certificate booklets on 5/23 to see if all the hype is true. Alas, the selling site recently posted this update: P.S. We are currently on backorder. You should expect your booklet [...]

At IveTriedThat, we love nothing more than to review something that won’t actually cause us to lose money. That’s why, when Google released the Google Pack, we were jumping with joy to hear that we got a whole mess of free software to review. Seriously. I had a hard time convincing Joe to keep his [...]

Want to get regular scambusting updates? Sign up for e-mail or RSS updates. Gasoline is the daily obscenity in my life. I hate the stuff, hate that I need it, hate the $10B profit-per-quarter corporations that produce it. That’s B as in Billion! Per quarter! (Check out the price in the picture. Maybe Q2 2008 [...]