Money, Love, and Change

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Even though I voted in the primaries, I am always nervous about whether I am registered to vote or not.  I received an e-mail today from a friend, who sent me a link to this site (it is from the Obama campaign, but anyone can use it) called voteforchange.com.  [...] Continue Reading…

I was watching some Suze Orman episodes from the DVR last night.  As you may know from a previous post, my opinion on Ms. Orman is mixed.  However, I think that she is trying to make others more financially aware, and I still tend to pick up a thing [...] Continue Reading…

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 again?).

But today, on the day where all us common folk [...] Continue Reading…

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 [...] Continue Reading…

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 [...] Continue Reading…

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, [...] Continue Reading…

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.  [...] Continue Reading…

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 [...] Continue Reading…

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 [...] Continue Reading…

We all know about some of the ways to save on our energy costs - having good windows, sealing up leaks, insulation, etc.  But once that is all said and done, how can we save money on our actual bill?

Until now, we haven’t worried too much about our natural [...] Continue Reading…