Archive for June, 2008
Is Your Patience Tanking with the Market?
If you have been paying any attention to the markets lately, then you probably have noticed the huge fluctuations the past couple of weeks. Key market events, like the Fed’s decision to keep the interest rate idle, and the rise and fall of the price of oil, seem to mean more to investors than companies actual [...]
How to Reduce Your Car Insurance Payment
As the price of gas gets worse, food prices rise out of control and finding a reasonable mortgage gets more and more difficult, we need to find a better way to save money. One way is through our car insurance. My significant other and I both have USAA and we both love it. But I [...]
The Art of Hypermiling
One of The Washington Post’s most esteemed writers, and coincidentally, one of our favorites, has written a nice piece on hypermiling. Before we go any further, lets first define what hypermiling is…
Essentially what it entails is altering your driving behavior to get better gas mileage. Sounds simple right? Well there is a lot more to [...]
The Joy’s of Three Paycheck Months
July is around the corner, and for Ben and I, this means a three paycheck month! Many employers, like ours, pay their employees using a 26 pay period cycle versus the traditional 24. Of course, this means each check is a little less, but twice a year we get the third magical paycheck. These extra paychecks feel [...]
How Will T-Mobile @Home Save Me Money?
If you are a current T-Mobile customer, then there is a great deal waiting for you. T-Mobile @Home is a new solution to your home phone needs.
This new phone service allows T-Mobile customers to stay connected using their home number. It has unlimited nationwide calling for only $10 a month, with a 2 year service [...]
Be Your Own Expert
“Do it yourself,” a frugal man’s favorite words. If you are anything like me, you might take this to the extreme. I attempt to do most everything myself, whether its home improvement projects or automobile repairs, I’ll give it a try. However, before starting a new project, I’ll be the first to tell you that [...]
Save on Mandatory Fun Trips
Last Friday, I read Ben’s great post about saving money by taking a staycation. Ironically, I was on vacation attending a wedding in Iowa at the time. But it really got my thinking about ways to save on mandatory wedding vacations, like the trip I found myself on (there are just some weddings you cannot [...]
What is a Staycation?
While a few of our compatriots within the Money Life Network have written a few articles about their experiences on vacation, I have an article that I have been meaning to put together and hope that I am not being contradictory. I don’t feel too bad suggesting an alternative due to the fact that I [...]
Flood Insurance for Your Home
FEMA has gotten a fair amount of criticism after Katrina and after reading their “Myths-and-Facts” regarding that whole mess, I am still not wholly convinced that FEMA was/is really on the ball as far as disaster relief. Having said that, however, there is a fair amount of other information that they present that might be [...]
You Deserve a Luxurious Vacation…Let Me Finance It For You
Today, I receive an email from CitiFinancial. This isn’t rare, being they send email to current and past customers at an annoying frequency. As you can tell from the text of the email (pasted below), Citi is offering a loan in order to finance a vacation. We all know financing a vacation is a horrible idea, [...]
Financial Cartoons to Share
Gleaned from around the web, feel free to share these…
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Pay Off Your Mortgage By Age 65
Being a recent first time home-buyer, my final mortgage payment is comical to think about. And this is exactly why many people don’t think about actually paying off their mortgages, ever. The Washington Post recently reported that, “more than 55 percent of boomers who have mortgages do not plan to pay their mortgages off until [...]
Spend $100 on Dockers Apparel and Receive a $75 Gas Card
It’s Father’s Day weekend and I’m sure many of you will be out looking for the perfect gift for the old man. If your greedy and want to get a little something for yourself, then consider this offer from Sears. Good through tomorrow, spend $100 on Dockers apparel and receive a $75 shell gas card. [...]
Make Summer Activities Affordable
This post is the latest in the Summer Savings Series by the Money Life Network. Check out the details for the contest here.
Living frugally definitely has its challenges in the summer. With the nice weather comes expensive outdoor activities like concerts, golfing, and drive in movies (yes, they still exist). You don’t [...]
Prosper.com Concerns
Prosper.com has some interesting notions to it that make it unique in the borrowing/lending market. If you have some extra money, you can lend it out and make a return (hopefully) or if your credit is bad, you can get a loan for a badly needed loan that you might not get otherwise, due [...]
