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Entries from September 2008

The irony of our wonderful government

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It’s not very often that I burst out laughing when we get the mail.  I’m usually annoyed at the amount of junk mail, or ticked off at the unexpected bill (ie. is it time to pay the garbage bill [...]

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Tags: Retirement

Get $10 when you sign up for Ebates

September 27th, 2008 · No Comments

With the holidays approaching, I’ve been on the prowl for some good deals.  Although I try to make most of my purchases with gift cards, I do like using ShopDiscover (when you make the purchase with your Discover Card, you get cash back), UPromise, and Ebates.  The basic idea with all of these sites is [...]

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Tags: Frugal Spending · Saving Money

Last day to sign up for free TransUnion credit monitoring

September 24th, 2008 · No Comments

TransUnion is offering free credit monitoring as part of the settlement in a class-action lawsuit, since they violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act and sold consumers personal and financial information to marketers.  Good stuff!
According to the site:
“The Settlement Class is defined as: All consumers who had an open credit account or an open line of [...]

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Tags: Personal Finance

Prosper no longer allowing PA residents to lend money

September 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I haven’t discussed Prosper.com much on this blog, but it is a peer-to-peer lending site that I have been thinking about getting involved with.  I was looking into the tax implications of peer-to-peer lending before getting started, but I guess I don’t have to worry about that anymore.
This morning, I got an e-mail from Prosper [...]

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Tags: Personal Finance

It’s potty time!

September 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments

I think that we may be lucky, but we started potty training about 2 weeks ago, and we’re doing pretty well.  The kid sometimes does the potty dance, but accidents have been very few and far between.  He does wear a  diaper to bed and a pull-up during naptime.  Other than that, it’s undies all [...]

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Tags: Kids

Get 50 minutes of tutoring for $1 at Tutor.com

September 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

I have been a tutor with Tutor.com for a couple of years now - they have programs through local libraries so that students can obtain tutoring using their local library website as a portal. They also provide tutoring packages for individual users; you buy the minutes that you need, and they are good for [...]

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Tags: Frugal Spending · Kids

Our temporary computer compromise

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Well, our Dell is still dead.  Because we had to deplete our emergency fund to pay for truck repairs, we’re not comfortable with buying a new computer before restoring our savings.  In addition, there is a good chance that we are going to have to make a trip home this month for family reasons, and [...]

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Tags: Frugal Spending