Several months ago I posted about my brother-in-law’s refusal to shred his personal papers, including credit card statements. At the time I warned that he was just asking for trouble, and it looks like that trouble has finally hit. On one of the cards he rarely uses he suddenly noticed several charges on his account [...]
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A few months ago I wrote about my need to simplify my finances by closing old bank accounts. I got off to a decent start, closing four obviously unnecessary accounts, but never went past that. Why? My theory is that those were the only ones that were obviously unnecessary, while the others I could make some case [...] More money to add to my running “Frugal Funds” total. We got our UPromise earnings checks yesterday, which represent all of the earnings we have had in the program to date. I had $62.96 in earnings and my wife had $10.93. Less the two stamps to send in the withdrawal requests, we earned $73.07 for [...] An article on MSN Money proposes an interesting idea: taking a personal day from work to fix your finances. The concept is a good one: if you take a single day to dedicate to fixing your finances you’ll finally get those pesky items off your to do list and ultimately profit from the time your [...] In one of the more interesting blog postings I’ve seen in a while, Brooke from DollarFrugal.com writes about ten ways to use personal finance to strengthen your marriage. There were some very good thoughts included, with my personal favorites being the following: 1. Having open lines of communication. This one is probably the most obvious [...] 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 [...] I recently started a new assignment at work, and so far it has been less than exciting. The work is way below my level, and the client has had trouble keeping up with assigning me tasks to fill my time. This has resulted in quite a bit of downtime at work for me recently. So [...] My wife loves Overstock.com. She doesn’t shop them quite as much as she used to, but she still orders from them quite a bit. Thankfully for people who frequent Overstock there are almost always Overstock coupon codes out there. For instance, there are codes for $10 off $99 purchase and a couple for $20 [...] I was surfing on PFBlogs.org and found this hilarious post from Blueprint for Financial Prosperity. This is so cheap, I’m a bit ashamed that I never thought of it. They basically would go out trick-or-treating early in the evening, and then check back in with the parents and unload the candy they didn’t like to [...] How many times do you see the offers from banks: “Free checking with direct deposit” or “$100 bonus when you open a new account with direct deposit”? So many bank offers and fee waivers are contingent on having direct deposit, and with good reason. Banks know that the more integrated your account is with the [...] |
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