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I made a few mental mistakes in the last month or so with regards to transferring money to/from some of my savings accounts. Unfortunately, this led to approximately $60 in overdraft fees – not a small chunk of change. I could have thrown in the towel and just ate the [...]
I’m going to be in Michigan for the weekend, so I figured now was a good time to pull an article from December 2007 out from the vault and share it with you all. Enjoy!
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I’m going to start off this post by being totally honest - I have used pirated software in the past. Back [...]
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Travelers Turn to Public Transit - The Washington Post
Apparently ridership is starting to pick up on public transportation with the high gas prices that the US has been facing. According to the article, the American Public Transportation Association reports a 10.3% increase in ridership for 1Q 2008 across all transportation [...]
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Have you ever looked at the back of your receipt from Burger King? You’ll notice that there is the standard request to fill out a customer satisfaction survey. However, instead of the usual “You might win $10,000!” tag line, BK gives you a little more incentive - a free Original Chicken [...]
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This post is inspired by an article I found in the Wall Street Journal via Digg.
This technique has been around for a while, but is often not widely known among non-power users. Even with automatic spelling correction/the proliferation of spell check in browsers, some people just can’t spell/can’t be [...]
Well, I finally pulled the trigger and have started in motion a plan to free myself from Comcast. I tried to make myself love cable TV, but I find that it bores me. Combine that with the fact that I don’t really watch TV to begin with, and it becomes a glaringly obvious piece of [...]
How to Inoculate Your Children Against Advertising - Get Rich Slowly
This is a great guest post over at GRS by Lisa Tiffin. I grew up in the “golden age” of advertising for kids - where they were able to make toys look like they did all these amazing things and only had to run .002 [...]
I’ve written in the past about effectively using your public library to expand your own personal one. As I sit here in the Schaumburg Township District Library, I will attempt to do a rough quantification about it’s value/savings - don’t expect Nobel Prize winning economic research here folks.
Photo credit: Tom Harpel
Let’s take a few [...]
Extreme Personal Finance: America On $10 A Day
J.D. at Get Rich Slowly has a write up on an article in the Albuquerque Tribune about one anti-war protestor in said locale that makes Thoreau look like a spendthrift. Apparently he does it to stay below the federal poverty line, therefore legally not owing taxes and therefore [...]
The Simple Dollar - Little Steps: 100 Great Tips For Saving Money For Those Just Getting Started
The Simple Dollar has a great selection of tips for saving money, especially if you are just starting out in getting your financial house in order. Some may seem dead basic, but there are some really good ones in [...]
