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March 2010

The 20 Best Money Websites

March 9, 2010

Money Mag recently came out with their list of best money websites, so I thought I’d share ‘em around and see what you all think. Along with my own two pennies, of course. You would have thought that after 2 months of heavy research they’d have at least mentioned the all-time BEST site in it [...]

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Credit Card Changes Are in Effect, Baby!

March 8, 2010

Just got our “house” credit card bill this morning, and noticed a VERY sexy box full of information on there ;) Which is funny considering we now have some credit card debt as I mentioned last week (I blame you Europe). I’m not sure how many of you were reading this blog last year, but [...]

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Smiles Are Free.

March 5, 2010

I don’t know if McDonald’s does this anymore, but they used to have these signs on their drive-thrus that said “Smiles Are Free.” I always liked that. Especially as a troublemaker trying to force the employees to give them to us ;) I was reminded of this because my sister just sent our family one [...]

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Weekly Roundup: John Stewart, Scarlett Johansson & Clarks

March 5, 2010

Giving away $100 in cash in today’s newsletter :) This is in addition to yesterday’s giveaway here on the blog too! Sign up, and then thank Prosper for hooking us up like that… Favorite articles (and carnivals) from the week: March Money Madness Round 2 – J battles it out! @ Free Money Finance – [...]

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How are you currently saving money? (comment to win $200!)

March 4, 2010

Today, Prosper & Budgets Are Sexy team up and celebrate the season of Lent! (Didn’t see that coming, did ya?). If you’ve ever heard of “peer-to-peer lending” before, you’re probably already aware of Prosper.com – one of the biggies in the industry. The site’s based on the premise that consumers should be able to help [...]

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Top 6 Mindless Money Wasters

March 3, 2010

Do you want to guess what these money wasters are before reading? You probably fall for at least half of them, I know I do :) Found these over at Free Money Finance, who found them over at Yahoo, and couldn’t help but chime in here. Y’all know I love this stuff. Someone’s list of [...]

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Net Worth Update – February: Someone’s got c/c debt!

March 2, 2010

Yup, for the first time in two years we’ve got credit card debt again. But as you can probably guess, there is a reason for such silliness – I finally booked EUROTRIP! And I didn’t want to dip into our cash savings ;) Financially it’s not that smart because we’ll now be accruing a few [...]

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What if the unemployed worked for their unemployment checks?

March 1, 2010

I have no idea how crazy this is going to sound (esp. since I’m no economist), but I found this question posed by the Huffington Post extremely fascinating. What if the unemployed worked for the checks they’re receiving? Here’s a quote from one of the guys interviewed – Glen Blackburn – who’s been unemployed for [...]

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