Merry Christmas!

Seeing as it is the day after Christmas and most of us are still in holiday mode, I just wanted to do a slightly less serious post to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Yes, despite the impending collapse of our economic system, Christmas still came this year and we all have many things to be [...]

Return from the Dark Ages

As our loyal readers may have noticed, there have not been any updates to this blog in some time. What you may not realize is that this humble blogger lives in Houston, and in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike we lost electrical power. Well, after nearly two weeks in the dark (from about 2am on [...]

My pimp has deemed me an unprofitable ho

Yes, unfortunately that means that I have been let go from my job, technically effective in two weeks, although I have been told I don’t need to come in for the two weeks and to use the time to find my next position. The explanation was that our national leadership said that each office had [...]

CVS and abuse of the DMCA

Longtime readers of this blog know that I frequent CVS, normally with printable in-store coupons in hand. However, the powers that be at CVS apparently don’t like what I am doing, or at least they want to try to keep you from replicating my deals.

A few days ago I posted a list of ECB [...]

New ING $25 Bonus Referral Links Posted

I posted a new batch of referral links for ING today. By following these links, a new customer can earn a $25 bonus for opening either an Orange Savings or Electic Orange Checking account with an opening deposit of $250 or more. That’s an instant 10% return!

This month’s referral links are brought to you [...]

Inquiring minds want to know: “What’s in my wallet?”

It looks like another blogger has called me out (among others) to disclose the contents of my wallet. PT over at Prime Time Money has issued this challenge in a post where he discloses the contents of his wallet, and I’m never one to back down from a challenge.

My wallet is not your traditional [...]

Merry Christmas!

I just wanted to wish everyone out there who reads my blog a Merry Christmas. Hopefully most of you will be spending time with family and friends instead of reading my blog today. As much as we talk about money, always remember that some things in life are more important than money. Make sure to [...]

Bloggers helping bloggers make money! Thanks HowISaveMoney.net!

As a father of twins, part time blogger and full time cheap bastard, I am always looking for ways to earn or save a little extra money. Lucky for me, I found this posting about PayPerPost over at HowISaveMoney.net. You can read the post at http://www.howisavemoney.net/make-money-online/money-online-payperpost-turning-reviewed-posts/.

LuLuGal lures her readers with an offer of [...]

ING Direct Orange Savings $25 Bonus Codes

For anyone out there who doesn’t already have an ING Direct Orange Savings account, here is a quick way to make $25. If you are a new customer and open an ING Direct Orange Savings with $250 using one of the codes below, ING Direct will pay you a bonus of $25 (in interest of [...]

Welcome to the new Close Encounters of the Cheap Kind!

Welcome to my blog’s new home here at CheapEncounters.com! You’ve probably already noticed that our site has a new URL and a new look, thanks to our move away from free provider WordPress.com. The move provides more flexibility in design and allows us to add additional features through add-ons and widgets that weren’t available on [...]