Archive for January, 2008

Make money by buying glucose monitors at CVS!

January 10, 2008

I love CVS deals, and here are two more where you can actually make money.  As always YMMV, but here are the details: 1. Purchase the Breeze2 blood glucose monitor, receive $9.99 in ECB (limit 5, good for all of Jan 2008). The monitor is on sale for $9.99 all month, and if you can [...]

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ING Direct Electric Orange Checking Account Referral Links ($25 Bonus)

January 5, 2008

Last night I posted referral links for the ING Direct Orange Savings Account, and tonight I am posting referral links for the ING Direct Electric Orange Checking Account. Electric Orange is ING’s paperless checking product which pays a very competitive interest rate of 3.15% APY for balances up to $50,000, 4.65% APY for balances between [...]

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ING Direct Orange Savings Account Referral Links ($25 Bonus)

January 5, 2008

It seems that with the new year many of my readers are looking to open a new ING Direct Orange Savings account, based on some of the search terms people have used to find the site in the last week. So to satisfy the masses, I am posting the following referral links. These links will [...]

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My Coke Rewards Double Points Day – January 4 11am CST until January 5 11am CST Only

January 4, 2008

It has been reported on SlickDeals that on January 4 2008 My Coke Rewards will be doing a double points day, meaning those little codes from your Coke products are worth twice as much today. Just remember that you are limited to ten codes per day, so be sure to use your highest value codes [...]

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Started out 2008 with $127.94 in “Frugal Funds”!

January 2, 2008

Inspired by this site chronicling and totaling the amount of money found on the ground, I am starting a tally of my own. Starting at this point, I am keeping a running total of what I will call “Frugal Funds”. I include in FFs money that I get mainly because I am cheap. Included in [...]

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Happy New Year! Here’s my financial to-do list

January 1, 2008

Happy New Year, fellow cheap bastards! Everyone looks at the beginning of a new year as a new beginning of sorts, and it seems like everyone likes to put together their list of resolutions. I’ve never really liked the practice or the term, mainly because most people come up with stuff like “I want to [...]

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