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Suze Orman vs. Personal Finance Bloggers (AKA “Idiots”)

January 15, 2012

I’ll let you take a guess who won ;) Read this: (much better than me trying to recap – plus, lots of pretty Twitter pictures!) Suze Orman’s “Approved Card” Gets Denied; Thinks PF Bloggers Are Idiots @ 20 and Engaged Way to go guys!  F’ing love y’all.  

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The Green Bay Packers Go Up For Sale and I Almost Fall For It.

December 7, 2011
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For anyone following the sick nasty Packers this season, they’re not only stompin’ everyone on the football field, but they’re now giving *anyone* a chance to OWN a part of their team as well!  That’s right, as of yesterday afternoon YOU too can own a piece of your very own NFL team :) Woop Woop! [...]

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The 7 Most Hated Fees & Price Bumps

December 5, 2011
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I was dozing off to Money magazine last night (cuz it was 3 a.m., not cuz it was boring! haha…) and one of the blurbs was on the their readers’ most hated fees and price bumps – which of course snapped me right back up ;)  Who doesn’t love to complain with their fellow man [...]

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Your Mission This Weekend: FIX Something

December 2, 2011
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[UPDATE: I called Comcast and within 18 mins got my bill lowered by $35/mo!! WOO! That's $400 a year of savings! Your turn :)] So I’ve been a naughty little budgeter lately, and haven’t dealt with something that’s been driving me BONKERS:  Fixing our cable bill!  I’m too ashamed to admit how longs it’s been [...]

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I’m Rich Cuz I Have a Lot of Credit Cards?

November 15, 2011
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Hahahhahaa…. that’s what I was just told at Auto Zone today!  I went in to pick up some WD-40 (the ol’ Caddy is getting a little squeaky in it’s old age) and the cashier told me “it must be nice” when I whipped out my money clip to pay. “Huh?  What must be nice?” I [...]

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And The Charges Just Keep on Coming…

October 19, 2011

Remember how United Airlines charged me for $75.00 against my will 2 months ago?  Well, it seems I’ve been on a bad luck streak ever since… not only is United STILL battling me on it (more to come in a bit) but I’m now facing off with Marriott and very briefly with American Express (it [...]

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Restaurants Now Charging $2.00 to Split The Check?!

October 17, 2011

I don’t know what’s going on lately, but I have now come across TWO different places that want to charge me for splitting the check.  I totally meant to bring it up the first time I caught it – a few months back while vacationing out in Delaware – but if your responses today are [...]

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Remember When I Won that Lawsuit?

October 12, 2011

Yeah, as suspected we won’t be seeing any of that money I’m afraid. Turns out the company went bust and all the money in their accounts magically disappeared around the same time we won the suit (imagine that?). Not that there was much in there anyways from what my sources say, but when the court [...]

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Couple Spends Nearly $248,000 on Playhouses!

July 26, 2011

So I get this email from my boy Aaron this morning, and I wanna get your opinion on it ;)  I’m gonna copy and paste the exact email exchange back and forth because I find it absolutely hysterical, and maddening!!, at the same time.  Take a read and then tell us how YOU feel about [...]

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Borders is Shutting Down?? NOoooOOooooOooo!

July 20, 2011

I freakin’ love that place, man – this is a sad sad day!! I just got an email from Consumer Reports giving some tips, and it makes me want to scream (not about the tips, but that they are closing!!). That just blows. And it’s the second store in my area to now shut its [...]

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