Savings

Things I learned from my childhood baseball card hobby

Posted by on August 18, 2009 at 10:38 am

The wife and kids decided to stay back in Louisiana for a couple of extra days, so with the house to myself I decided to work on the transition of my old office into a bedroom for the kids. As part of the project I had to move everything out of the room (now so [...]

Today’s frugal lesson: Ask and ye shall receive

Posted by on March 2, 2009 at 1:35 pm

Here’s a quick tip to help limit expenses. Don’t be afraid to ask for a late fee to be waived on your bill. No matter how careful we are, sometimes a bill slips past us, like my AT&T home phone bill did this month. The result was a $6.05 late fee, not a lot but [...]

Follow-up: I doth say “Screw Sprint!”

Posted by on December 29, 2008 at 4:27 pm

I posted a few weeks ago about my dilemma on what to do with my cell phone. I have been a Sprint customer for a little over two years and I’m no longer under contract, while my wife is an AT&T customer. I discussed the idea of switching to AT&T and doing a family share [...]

How much is a cell phone number worth?

Posted by on November 14, 2008 at 8:57 am

That’s the question I am asking myself at this point. I am currently with Sprint and my wife is on AT&T, and I was looking into porting my number over to AT&T and then putting the two lines on a share plan. My current monthly charge through Sprint alone is $38.49 plus tax, my wife’s monthly [...]

Cutting Costs: My Dish Network Bill

Posted by on November 13, 2008 at 12:27 pm

As evidenced by my last post on changing electric contracts, I’ve started looking at our monthly bills to see where we can cut costs and save some money. After effectively saving about $60 a month changing electric providers (after the one-time $69.99 early termination fee charged by my current provider), I set my sights on [...]

New ING Bonus Links!!!

Posted by on October 8, 2008 at 10:30 am

Seeing how hard it is to make money in the stock market these days, it is always fun to pick some of the low hanging fruit in the financial world. While you can easily lose 10% in the market, you can just as easily make 10% on your money by opening a new Orange Savings [...]

New ING $25 Bonus Referral Links Posted

Posted by on March 18, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Happy Sunshine Angel Baby

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 [...]

Online savings accounts: Who is king of the hill now?

Posted by on February 4, 2008 at 11:04 pm

It used to be that every other email in my inbox was spam for a product to enhance a certain manly part, but over the last couple of weeks those have been outnumbered by messages from online savings accounts notifying me of reduced interest rates. I guess that will happen when the Fed reduces rates [...]

The Interest Rate Cut and the Death of the App-O-Rama

Posted by on January 24, 2008 at 10:42 pm

As most everyone is aware now, the Federal Reserve this week dropped the Federal Funds rate by 75 basis points (0.75%). This is great for borrowers, but not so great for savers. Several online banks have already dropped their high yield online savings accounts drastically in response to the cut. This is on top of [...]

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

Posted by on January 1, 2008 at 12:15 am

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 [...]