Archive for October, 2009
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Amazon Friday Sale (Awesome Queen Mattress Sale Edition)
As many of my regular readers know by now, every Friday Amazon has a sale. Usually it’s a good place to pick up some highly discounted kitchenware. In fact, about half my kitchen was bought from the Amazon Friday Sale. Every week, I hope Amazon puts on a new or [...]
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Is iJango a Scam?
I was watching Tech Now this week and the technology show mentioned a scam that’s getting the Better Business Bureau’s (BBB) attention. I never really cared too much about these scams, because I assumed, like Nigerian princes, people were smart enough to avoid them. However, after realizing that a lot of people [...]
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What if You were Required to Share your Finances?
My friend, Kosmo at The Casual Observer clued me into a Associated Press article about Norway opening up their country’s tax records. The belief by the Norwegian government is that transparency is the best policy. That transparency comes in the form of releasing a “skatteliste” or “tax list” to the media.
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Weekend Links (Cleaning For a Party Edition)
This weekend my wife and I did a lot of cleaning in preparation for having The Digerati Life and Stop Buying Crap over for a game of Settlers of Catan. I think we spent 8 hours each day in preparation. I would like to say we split the work 50-50, but my [...]
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Follow the NFL at 30,000 Feet for “Free”
A couple of weeks ago, on our trip to The Wedding that Wasn’t, I realized something that made me sick to my stomach. We had booked our return flight to San Francisco during the three-hour span that the New England Patriots were playing. I have very few rules, but one of them [...]
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Don’t Forget to Get your Free $50 from CollegeAdvantage
Since my servers have been having staying up today, I’ll just give a quick update to remind everyone to get a free $50 for opening a 529 educational plan. You don’t need to have children to take advantage of this. We don’t have children and I signed up under my own name. [...]
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10 Free Online Budgeting Applications
One of the great things about the Internet is that free stuff is everywhere. Sometimes you can even find good free stuff. It may surprise you that there are a lot of companies offering to help you budget your money for free.
Before I go too much further with the mention of “free”, [...] -
Collapsed Ceiling (and Personal Finance Links)
Yesterday, I woke up to a call from my tenant. That’s never the right way to start the day. It turns out that the new washer that I got last week overflowed causing the part of the ceiling to collapse. These things always seem to happen on a Sunday when you [...]
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Save (and Make) Money with an iPhone/Palm Pre?
onventional personal finance wisdom says that it’s best to skimp on your cell phone – go with a prepaid plan or skip text messaging. I even wrote a whole post on similar tips to save money on cell phones. However, I’m starting to come around to the thinking that it could be [...]
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To Wed or Not to Wed
[Alternative title: The Wedding that Wasn't]
On our trip back to San Francisco from Aruba we made a little stop in Florida. I have a friend from college and she was getting married. To be completely accurate we planned our Aruba trip this year around the wedding, cutting it a day short to [...]
