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Completely Free Anti-Virus Protection for Your Computer
Sure we may have referred to this before but I wanted to bring it up again real quick: AVG Free is a fantastic, simple, effective and completely free. Not only does it protect from viruses, but spyware as well. Here is a complete list of what is offered, and if you like it, you can [...]
Phone Carriers are Stealing Your Money
Tod Philips over at Geeks Are Sexy wrote up a great piece on how he is saving a ton of money on Skype and the unreal taxes being charged to his long distance account. Almost 30%!! Check it out.
A Fine Example of Consumption
New Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less
This made me lol, and I wanted to share it with other…man I love the Onion.
Amazon Deal: LOST Blu-ray Box Sets
Until July 16, 2009, Amazon has a deal going where you can get 30% off boxed sets of LOST on Blu-ray. I know that LOST can be highly addicting and if you happen to already have a Blu-ray player (or a PS3), you might want to check it out. Heres the link.
There are also some [...]
Review: Magento Beginner’s Guide
Over the past year or so, writing for Milk Your Money has led me on an impressive journey through the wide spectrum of topics surrounding personal finance, the economy and money in general. I have met some awesome people and have learned much more than I would have previously imagined. This path has led in [...]
An Example in Self Discipline
I wanted to share this video because I feel as though it makes an excellent case with respect to how people can rein in the desire to spend recklessly. It’s a very easy thing to do to purchase something in order to feel gratification and this video does a wonderful job in describing and [...]
Free iPhone Apps That Could Save You Money
A global craze we are seeing now is the iTunes App Store, where we saw that they latest news was the 1 billionth app sold/downloaded. That is a ton…Surely within all that there are some tools to save you money, right? If you have an iPhone (and we aren’t saying go get one necessarily) but [...]
How Your Cell Phone Company is Gouging You
I am willing to bet that I have done the math right and if so, your cell phone company is completely gouging you. Aside from minutes and the company telling who you can call and when, the text messaging is outrageous: but they are able to be discreet about it. How much is too much?
A New Perspective on Time and Money
I am going to show you a series of pictures that should change the way you imagine time and money. One is a visualization of 1 billion dollars, and the other, the amount of sand it takes to go through an hour glass in the average persons lifetime. These were done by Michael Marcovici as a [...]
Review: When Giants Fall by Michael Panzner
Americans have been at the front row of the economic collapse and can actually pinpoint the reverberations around the world like ripples in a pond. This book does exactly what it means to: tell the past present and future about how America is going to no longer lead the world economically. Sound a little to [...]
Seven Strategies that Entrepreneurs Must Apply
This is a guest post by Al Jacobs, the author of Nobody’s Fool: A Skeptic’s Guide to Prosperity
A popular comic strip dating back to the 1930s declared that “Heroes are made, not born.” Each day the misfortunes of the main protagonist were humorously revealed as he invariably caused things to go wrong. The moral, easily [...]
Is Composite Decking Right For You?
Summer is steaming towards us and there is a growing number of people who are looking to put in a deck in the back yard. So as you begin your research, you are going to be hit with an issue right away: composite decking or real wood? Personally we have composite decking with real wood [...]
Are Internet Service Providers Ripping Us Off?
Yes. Yes they are. One in particular to me anyway. Yesterday, Frank wrote an article about how we shouldn’t have to pay for GPS map updates. If you read closely you might have read that he mentioned me and my issues with paying for an internet connection. Its not that I don’t WANT to pay [...]
9 Recession Proof Jobs
So you are job hunting…in a recession? Believe it or not there is quite a selection of options that are in the category of being what everyone needs. What are some things that everyone needs in a depressed economy like this one? People have to eat and the global population is steadily increasing. People will [...]
How To Find a Job
You might have a job right now that you love. Or you might have one that you hate. Worse still you might not even have one and really need one. Either way the following is going to help you immensely. By the end of the year its very likely that unemployment will be at 10%…Lets get started.
