I’m up at a lake right now, and a few of my friends have been scuba diving. Under water they’ve found and recovered two 200ish pound engine blocks. Selling them both they could make as much as $800.

And anyone can do it. Find some metal, be it pipes or pieces from a car or soda cans, then take them to your local junk yard and sell them for cash. The heavier your load the more money you’ll make. Good Luck!

Here is a short video I put together about the Flip Your Fees Class!  Enjoy!!

just watch.

There are many games on facebook that can be addicting for teenagers all over the world.  I know that for a fact because during the school year I would procrastinate on my homework to play farmville and treasure isle.  Those are just two of many you could spend hours playing.  Here is a video showing a few more  games

With so much work and school, don’t forget whats really importantant, FRIENDS!

At my high school, we had a specific class called Personal Finance.  During the semester we learned a lot about handling our money, buying houses, and keeping a budget.  We also little about the stock market.  We were able to track the stock market for a few months while playing The Stock Market Game.  During this time we were given 100,000 dollars to work with.  It wasn’t real money, but it worked like it so we could learn the ins and outs of trading in the stock market.  You also compete world wide with students from all over.   You have to try and beat them with the most amount of revenue. You can use many different sites to follow stocks such as finance.yahoo.com. Here is just a short video about some 6th and 7th grade students who play the stock market game as well and they have fun with it too!

“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is by far my favorite show on television, and if you haven’t seen it, your missing out. It’s a comedy about 5 people that own a bar in philly, and each episode they get in hillarious and outragous cituations. The show is an amazing parody of todays culture. Here’s a clip of an episode where they try to form a band. In the fallowing episode they actually do a musical of “Dayman.”

Rob McElhenney (Mac), Charlie Day (Charlie), and Glenn Howerton (Dennis), actually write all the episodes for the show. Here’s a behind the scenes video on more about the show and how it became what it is today.

Season 6 premires September 16th on FX and will be on Thursdays at 10pm. If you need your fix now Comedy Central plays 4 episodes every monday night at 9pm.

Is anyone on a last minutevacation before school starts in a few weeks?  This week I was on a short getaway to the mountains with a few friends.  I really needed some time to get away from things so I took the oppurtunity and went away for 4 days!  Here is a short video that I was able to find about all the cool stuff you could do up the mountains, whether you own a house or go to a resort you will have so much fun!!

Continuing from yesterdays blog, I wanted to talk about auto loans.  This goes along with building your credit.

Without good credit it is going to be a little difficult to get an auto loan.  There are some things to think about when applying for a loan.  You should look over your credit report and if your credit isn’t good then you should do some of the following.  You should determine how much you wanna spend and then prepare some documentation with proof of employment and income.  Once you finally do get an auto loan you need to be able to keep a good credit history because

Check out Bucks First Federal Credit Union’s website for some more info about credit unions

I’ve had many questions lately about how I am going to build my credit.  I just turned 18 about 7 months ago and I haven’t really had the chance to build my credit.  I decided to research a little bit about building credit.

One major way to build credit is applying for a credit card when you are a college student.  Company’s are more likely  to give you a chance when you are in college because they know your parents are more willing to bail you out if needed.

-There are a few other tips to having a credit card.

• Try not to charge more than 30% of your limit
• Don’t charge more than you can pay off in a month
• Make sure you pay the bill on time

Another way to build credit is to get a loan with a cosigner or sign up as a joint account owner on someone else’s card.  This will help you build your credit as long as they are paying the bills on time.