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Sell Your Used Textbooks and Old Books Online
Selling used books online is one of the easiest ways to significantly declutter your home and earn some extra money in the process. Although it might seem like the intellectual thing to do – to have volumes of books and textbooks lining your bo...
How To Request USPS Hold Mail Service Online
Although we might be living in the computer (Internet) age, certain people still insist on doing things the old fashioned way. But if you want to do a better job of saving precious time and money, you might want to start taking better advantage of th...
Costco Executive Membership: Is It Worth It?
For many years now, I’ve been a loyal Costco warehouse club member. In my earlier days, I signed up for Costco’s entry level Gold Star membership program at what’s now $50 a year – applying for the co-branded Costco American E...
How To Stop Receiving Paper Junk Mail and Save Trees
After finally returning home from an extended three month overseas trip to spend time with my parents, I was greeted back home by an overweight mail box stuffed to the brim and absolutely overflowing with junk mail. Although I had authorized my mail ...
Best Personal Finance Books About Money - Reviews
List Of The Top Books About Money For Your Personal Finance Library Burn those get rich quick books and ditch the late night infomercial gimmicks. Whatever you do - don’t waste your money on useless junk. True personal finance knowledge is ...
Tips For Buying, Giving, and Using Discount Gift Cards
As a stereotypical male, I seem innately handicapped when it comes to performing certain tasks - “confusing activities” that include shopping and picking out the right gifts for the right occasion. I’m sure there are some men out th...
How To Become A Millionaire and Get Rich In 10 Steps
So you want to be a millionaire? Well you know what? Me too - and I’m determined to get there in the near future. At this very moment, despite the current state of the economy and the deteriorated condition of the credit markets, instead of jus...
Save Money By Eating Out At Local College Town Area Restaurants
This weekend a good buddy of mine and I decided to meet up and go for a round trip cross country bike ride from suburban Maryland, through the tree lined bike trails of Washington D.C., and into the outskirts of Northern Virginia. Neither of us owned...
How To Kill Roaches And Get Rid Of A Home Cockroach Infestation
I have a little secret to share. Well it’s not really a secret so much as it’s a phobia that I’ve held since I was a little kid. Here’s the secret - I am deathly afraid of household insects, but in particular - cockroaches. ...
How To Get A Free Roller Coaster Photo At Six Flags or Disney World
Cheapskate, Appropriately Frugal, or Brilliantly Simple? You Decide Well we’ve finally reached the dog days of summer - the hottest stretch of heat sweltering days of July and August. For those of you who live in colder climates, bless your hea...
The Best Credit Card Rewards For Google Ads and Search Advertising
Updated List Of The Best Credit Card Cash Back Rewards For Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and MSN AdCenter As a personal finance blogger and a dot com mogul-super affiliate tycoon wannabe (I’m joking), I regularly spend sums of money o...
My Not-So-Stimulating Economic Stimulus Payment Has Finally Arrived
After months of waiting and checking my mail box regularly like a little kid waiting for his video game to arrive, I was finally relieved to discover a little envelope from the United States Treasury yesterday - my long awaited 2008 Economic Stimulus...
Best Locations To Find Free Wireless Internet Access (WiFi Hotspots)
While I have my own convenient and jack-rabbity-fast high speed broadband connection at home, sometimes I just want to get out of the house for a change of scenery. Ever since I began the gradual transition from traditional office life to the work fr...
Paying By Credit Card At the Gas Pump and Refusing To Use Cash
Oh great - well I hope this article doesn’t foretell or signify a trend that’s going to be widely picked up by the gas industry in the coming future. While they’ve been one of the most credit card friendly industries in the past, so...
Sometimes Shopping Online Isn’t Worth The Inconvenience Or Hassle
These days, you can buy pretty much everything under the sun online. All it takes is some fancy keyboard typing and mouse clicking, and you can Google your way to an ideal product that offers both perfect features and perfect pricing. Theoretically i...
Why College Students Should Apply For Student Credit Cards
An Updated List Of the Best Student Credit Card Offers Provided Below It’s remarkable how much the Internet has changed how we manage our finances today, and the sheer amount of information and knowledge it affords us. With a few keystrokes, w...
Major Causes Of Vehicle Breakdowns - Broken Alternators For Example
These days, nothing lasts forever. Unless the item in question is one of those seemingly indestructible NASA Mars Rovers that are still chugging along the Martian surface despite having already greatly exceeded their original lifespan - or if the ite...
Dealing With A Car Breakdown and Paying Rip Off Repair Shop Prices
Well it was bound to happen and it finally did. My trusty 2004 silver Honda Accord that I purchased brand new during graduate school finally died on me. I think there’s several valuable lessons to be learned here, and one of them is that nothin...
Even Celebrities Can Fall On Hard Times And Face Home Foreclosure
When you think of Ed McMahon, you don’t exactly associate or lump him with big time wasteful spenders like MC Hammer and some of the other well known celebrities of the past who rose to fame and fortune quickly but ultimately frittered away the...
I Purposely Drive In Heavy Rain To Get A Free Car Wash
Today I was relaxing at home on a lazy Saturday afternoon, tinkering on the computer and watching my weekend mixed martial art fighting shows on TV when suddenly there was a tremendous flash of light from the window, followed by the wallop of a floor...
A Healthy Meal Option For Guys Who Can’t Cook - Boca Veggie Burgers
There seems to be a trend among online finance and frugality commentators to share their personal frugal meal solutions. Some have gone so far as to post step by step instructional guides on how to put together simple peanut butter sandwiches, or com...
The Best Frequent Flyer Airline Miles Credit Cards For Cheap Flights
Updated List Of The Top Airline Credit Card Offers and Travel Rewards I have a friend who is absolutely nutty about frequent flyer miles. Because he has family and relatives who live all over the place - in New York, Chicago, India, and England to n...
How To Beat High Gas Prices and Save Money At The Gas Pump
Because I rely on public transportation for the vast majority of my work related commute, I don’t track gas and oil price fluctuations as closely as someone who drives regularly. While I do notice the indirect correlative effects of pricier gas...
One Great Potential Benefit Of Higher Gas Prices - Less Traffic
As gas and oil prices continue to push vigorously into higher unprecedented levels, my wallet lets out a single quivering tear drop. But when I find myself mired in the unmoving water boarding torture that is rush hour traffic - I end up rooting for ...
Saving Money and Drinking To My Health With Free Coffee and Tea
I just made the most wonderful discovery a few days ago. Well it was wonderful in my eyes at least. I sleep pretty late these days so I decided to take a stroll downstairs to the condominium lobby. I currently rent a unit in a medium size condo compl...
Free Coin Counting At CoinStar Machines and Participating Banks
I have two small piggy banks that sit atop my office desk at home. One is a coin bank in the shape of a dog, and the other is shaped like a light blue colored pig that I received as a free giveaway when I opened a new Citibank business checking accou...
U-Haul Truck Rentals Suck But They Are The Cheapest Around
A quick visit to a few internet forums and online review sites and it’s evident that there is a common shared consensus when it comes to truck rental experiences from the U-Haul moving company - they’re all negative. You’re be hard ...
Bank of America Free Money Promotions For New Accounts
Updated Regularly! Bank of America is the second largest bank in the United States in terms of total account value so needless to say, they must be doing something right. Like other major banks such as Citibank and Wachovia, Bank of America often rel...
Citibank Free Money Promotion Offer Codes For New Bank Accounts
Updated! Citibank is the biggest banking institution in the United States and has branches and ATM’s everywhere. Since they signed a deal with 7-11, their ATM banking reach has soared nationally and worldwide. As one of the most popular banks, ...
How To Get Your Free FICO Credit Score And Avoid Fake Credit Offers
I think most people are aware to a certain degree that it’s important to maintain a healthy credit score. To financial institutions, mortgage brokers, landlords, and even employers, it’s a quantifiable measure of your reliability when it ...
