Better to give, receive, or both?
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The Get 1, Give 1 promotion for the $100 laptop is very tempting.
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Chance favors the prepared mind, whether returns show it or not.
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What does it say about you if you want one, or if you don't? Here are two points of view
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One of the most frequently asked holiday etiquette questions involves the practice of re-gifting. So I asked readers recently if they thought that taking a gift they had received and passing it on to someone else was prudent or just plain rude.
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The feelings of stress that Thanksgiving evokes sometimes overwhelm the seasonal beneficence. But research suggests that the actual process of giving thanks (whether it's for getting to the meal on time, for getting along with Aunt Jane or for getting by without salmonella) may hold benefits for the...
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When we give to charity, we're picky. Learn what we look for.
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There are special rules for gifts of stock.
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You don't have to give blindly, hoping for the best.
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Awards or money: It's hard to earn both at the same time.
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You officially less than two weeks until Christmas. Great.  Don't feel guilty if that totally bums you out. It's the gift-giving that makes single people hate this time of year.
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Pay attention and you might grab a reward.
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-- Communicate with the seller  -- Read
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Cash is not trash, it's the basis for a successful financial life. Having some money stowed away for a rainy day will keep the tax bill, unexpected illness, or a broken appliance from stealing your peace of mind. Having an additional amount put away for a future stock market purchase is even better.
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The most painful kind of generosity are the promises you cannot fulfill. The people who were once so grateful then turn on you, and your self-esteem is sure to take a beating.  Many years ago, in a fit of generosity, Dave Winer offered to host all early-bird adopters of editthispage.com free hosting of their weblogs. This included php.weblogs.com. Well Dave Winer recently announced that he was closing down the weblogs.com and editthispage.com websites. He no longer runs a company that can support these sites and they are a personal and financial strain on him.   I was disappointed, but I had no expectations that Dave would do this in perpetuity.  My momma taught me to keep my expectations low when it comes to free things. After all, Dave and I have never met, and I've only exchanged a couple of emails with him.   I had a feeling that something like this was going to happen because the site has suffering from poor performance this past month. So my contingency plan was to ship the weblog to a commercial hosting service like weblogger if need be. During the weekend, just before the site was cut off, and before any announcement by Dave, I moved my most important open source project to sourceforge, to http://adodb.sourceforge.net/.  Today I got an email from Lawrence, Userland's webmaster:  Subject:   php.weblogs.com  From:      "Lawrence Lee" deleted#userland.com Date:      Wed, June 16, 2004 1:46 am  To:        jlim#natsoft.com Priority:  Normal  Mailer:    Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510   We'll be continuing to host php.weblogs.com, we made special arrangements with Dave to keep it running.  Lawrence   I didn't ask for special treatment, so this is a pleasant surprise. Apparently the people at Userland decided to host this weblog and Dave emailed me, saying he had nothing to do with this decision. Of course I don't expect this offer to be permanent either, and I will deal with that when the time comes. The website's performance is still terrible though, and I have no expectations about this either.  For those who ever wondered what the icon below each post means, it's a graphic emoticon of how i feel. I think the jazz singer Billie Holiday is an appropriate image for this post; her songs are always bitter-sweet. It sure feels like Stormy Weather or Come Rain or Shine.  I would also like to thank those of you who emailed me privately about this issue. RSS seems the best  way to access this web-site at the moment, as it continues to go down at random times.
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The latest craze in software: giving stuff away. BEA Systems, Computer Associates and IBM all recently started releasing the source code, or underlying instructions, for some programs, which amounts to distributing those products free. Even the loosest definition of incentive rebates would probably stop short of 100% discounts, but then the economics of software are peculiar (see story, p. 161). The giveaways were celebrated, especially by the noisy "open-source" movement, which wants all software distributed this way. (They're not kidding.)
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Make sure you're doing the right thing with your donations.
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There's a big difference, taxwise, between inheritances and gifts.