Archive for April, 2008
If Its Not Broke, Maintenance It
As many of you may remember from an early posts, my wife and I commute into work together. We do this not only because of the substantial cost savings of only operating one vehicle, but we do this because we only have one vehicle. Our little car has been through a lot, to [...]
Cost Analysis of Bottled Water Versus Filtered at Home
Main stream media occasionally drives me nuts. So many times on the Today Show, they go on and on about a certain topic, and then right at the very end, they call in an expert who very succinctly, and sometimes, even intelligently explains how the previous 15 minutes of terrible gloom and doom are [...]
Rare Opportunity – Interest Rate Cuts and Private Student Loans
MilkYourMoney.com has received an increasing amount of traffic directed to an earlier post titled, “How Do the Federal Interest Rate Cuts Affect My Student Loans,” in recent days and with good reason. The Federal Funds Rate has been dramatically reduced in the last couple of months, which has adjusted borrower’s monthly payments for nearly every [...]
Visa Gift Card Lab Has Custom Logos
As we see, quite a few of our colleagues have had contests on their blogs, we thought that now might be a good opportunity to present an interesting idea…Give away a visa gift card with your blog with your websites logo on it! This would provide the winner to have not only a tangible thing from winning, but it [...]
The Importance of Talking About Your Finances with Friends and Family
In a recent Bankrate.com survey they found that 47 percent of survey respondents would rather fess up about their weight, age or monthly mortgage than discuss how much credit card debt they are carrying. There is a certain amount of human embarrassment associated with debt (especially credit card debt), which makes talking about our finances [...]
Top Ten Reasons to Use Online Bill Pay
It’s strange how the conveniences in our lives continually improve but we seem to constantly be on the run with more things to do. We no longer have to go to the store to rent movies, we can now have our groceries delivered to our door, and we can even hire life coaches to take [...]
We Have Joined Pay Per Post
Given the amount of traffic we cater to at this site, we have decided to engage our services with PayPerPost. We felt that by going this route we would have the advantage of not going to crazy with ads and keep the look of the site relatively clean and it lends itself to some [...]
Autoinsurance-4u.com
In our daily quest to limit the amount that we pay for different things, auto insurance comes up quite a bit. Most of us are able to abide by the driving standards set forth by our local governments and feel that the high prices of many car insurance companies are on the verge of [...]
13 Days Remain to Make a 2007 IRA Contribution
As the tax deadline slowly creeps up on us, so too does the deadline to contribute to a 2007 IRA (Individual Retirement Account). IRA’s, which historically have served as a secondary retirement plan for most individuals, are a great way of paying less in federal income taxes while still saving for your future.
For [...]
Monthly Round Up for March
Every month we will gather up some of our most well received posts and quotes, in case they were missed as well as to give some financial highlights to consider for the month ahead. We will also discuss some of our sites traffic activity. Have you subscribed yet?
So this is our second month [...]
