New sponsor and some random thoughts on blogging

Well, this blog has been around for about a month now, and I have decided to add an affiliate link to my blog. I have decided to sign this blog up as an affiliate of The Coupon Clippers, which I thought was very fitting with the theme of this site. I have referenced this site [...]

Move over HSBC – Here comes FNBO Direct at 6.0% APY!

Happy day! Just when I thought the days of 6.0% APY were over, here comes FNBO Direct with their own 6.0% APY promo rate, valid until 9/28/2007. The account has no minimums and no fees, and the application process was relatively painless. The application took about 10 minutes to complete and the only issues were [...]

AMEX Blue and the disappearing promo APR

I just got an unpleasant surprise on my AMEX Blue statement. I had applied for this card last November under an offer of 15 months at 0% APR on purchases. As the reward program on this card is pretty good and 0% is almost always as good as free money, I applied for the card [...]

Happy 2nd anniversary to Five Cent Nickel!

One of my favorite personal finance blogs is celebrating its second anniversary today. Two years ago today FiveCentNickel.com had its first blog posting. Since then he has posted 985 articles and received 5,574 reader comments. Quite the accomplishment, indeed.

FCN was actually the very first personal finance blog I read, and remains one of my [...]