When the Proposal Costs More Than a Wedding
Sometimes we consider the big day more important than the "entire life" together. Now, apparently, that thinking has pushed past the wedding itself. It's all about the proposal, too.
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Kids' bedrooms are different now. Think "teen wing of the house" different, with videogame arcades, secret Harry Potter passageways, and DJ mixing stations, if you're lucky.
Sometimes we consider the big day more important than the "entire life" together. Now, apparently, that thinking has pushed past the wedding itself. It's all about the proposal, too.
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For those of you who've been all doom and gloom about the music industry — claiming the Internet and mp3s and iTouches and all those gizmos have killed it — here's some news that might flip your wigs: the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry reports that its members took in more money in 2012 than it did in 2011. As in, growth. Actual growth.
In the latest rather obvious attempt to monetize every inch of its network, Facebook is now trying to charge you to promote not just your own content — they think you'll pay for your friends' wall posts, too.
Plenty of now-famous authors barely eked out a living selling their words in their own time, but today their tossed-off grocery lists, doodles, and marginalia can fetch millions. The market for such mildewed papers is booming.
The heated fiscal cliff negotiations are over — for now — so it's time to assess your wallet: The payroll tax hike cancels out some other tax cuts, but that doesn't necessarily mean your take-home income will decrease.
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Every so often we get one of those articles about how someone more frugal than your average frugal person is living off the land on the cheap, surviving on stuff discovered in Dumpsters and other people's trash. But they have limits, these people do.
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Last night's Bitcoin heist of $250,000 (or so) worth of the virtual currency shows that this world isn't quite ready for an online alternative to dollar bills because the promises of deregulation aren't worth the safety hazards.
We all know that Mitt Romney is rich, but just how much does his church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, get within a year? Oh, just about $7 billion.
Fantasizing about how Apple could spend its $117 billion cash mound leads to one astounding conclusion: The company has more money than it could ever spend—even if it went on an extravagant tech company shopping spree.
Students are paying for more of their college education on their own now than they have for the past four years.
Our neighbors to the north have reason to gloat: Canadians are on average wealthier than Americans.
Forbes published its annual list of Hollywood's highest-earning actresses today, and guess who's number one. Miss mopey mouse herself, Kristen Stewart.
Even though money sits at the heart of the most fundamental human issues, we fear talking about it, quite possibly making money issues, including pay equity, worse.
Summer started earlier this year and is on track to be hotter than almost any on record. And that means it's going to be expensive, because whatever it is you like to do during the summer, you're going to do more of it and that's going to cost you.
Floyd Mayweather lived up to his nickname. The boxer, who sometimes goes by "Money" Mayweather, made $32 million in guaranteed money for his fight against Miguel Cotto last night.
From what happened to one German business man, it sounds like you can actually keep some of it.
Looking for a place where wealth literally falls out of the sky? Head to Rescue, California, where you can find meteorites which go for around $1,000 per gram.
Today's made-for-outrage New York Times trend story: Little girls are wearing fancy, expensive clothes made by fashion designers who make fancy, expensive clothes for little girls now. Little girls!
Thursday we defended our hapless romantic spreadsheet user—a man who used an Excel document to "keep track of" dates he met on Match.com. Now, we hear from an actual human woman who interacted with him online.
Finally, finally, our time of great suspense is over. All three of the lucky Mega Millions winners (groups or individuals) have come forward to claim their prizes. And we have names for at least two of them.
"Dream wedding": Two special words, for two very special people.
New York City residents and their real estate brokers have a special kind of relationship. Is it any wonder that we're entranced by these fascinating creatures who wield such power?
One of the three mystery Mega Millions lottery winners has finally come forward, and it's not Mirlande Wilson.
Inspired by the ongoing debates and misunderstandings about birth control and women's health care, Jezebel's Tracie Egan Morrissey has run down the general cost of being a woman.
The truly weird story that has captivated our attention for some unknown reason this week is that of McDonald's employee Mirlande Wilson, who on Monday claimed she won Maryland's Mega Millions Lottery ticket.
The Mega Millions is already tearing people apart, and its biggest winners have yet to come forward.
Due to financial complications related to her continued stay in Rikers and the charge of promoting prostitution that's keeping her there, Anna Gristina has been forced to give up the majority of her much-adored pigs.
As America continues in its frenzy over the now $640-million jackpot up for grabs in tonight's Mega Millions lottery, we feel it is our duty to inform you that actually, you really probably don't want to win the lottery.
There's a new Wall Street workout in town.
To solve its money-making conundrum, Pinterest has hired Tim Kendall, Facebook's former Director of Monetization, reports Fortune's Jessi Hempel in a profile of the rising social network.
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In the annals of crime, there is a place reserved for the banker—a special sort of banker, mind you, not just the guy who offers you free checking with your savings account, presuming you keep a certain balance, at Chase.
After a mysterious Apple media alert had everyone guessing what Apple might do with its $100 billion, the company has decided to go the dividends and stock buyback route.
PayPal pulled back the curtain on their new mobile payments device on Thursday afternoon, surely the product of much sweat and tears from some design team. And goshdarnit: Everybody's making fun of it.
Bloomberg seems very excited about its newfangled "Bloomberg Billionaires Index" which, like Forbes' "The World's Billionaire List" before it, serves mainly as a reminder of how much money you don't have.
If one thing is clear about rich people, it's not that their lives are any easier than the rest of ours. In fact, if anything, it's hard to have money.
Among the many reasons to do your taxes this year is the distinct possibility that you're owed a few bucks from years past and, potentially, a little piece of the $1 billion in unclaimed refunds that's just hanging out at the Internal Revenue Service.
After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that didn't make sense.
Airport travelers left $409,085.56 at security checkpoints across the country in 2010, simply by emptying the change in their pockets into those plastic bins and not picking it up again.
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