I wrote last week about how to negotiate your cable bill, a process that, while painful, was rather lucrative. Today I share with you a couple of other additional phone calls I made to save some dough and the lessons we can learn as a result.
Rubin v. The Bank Soon to be Formerly Known as [...]
You: Why twelve and not ten?
That’s how many there are.
Myth # 1: “I’d be able to save more money if I earned more money.”
False. If you live paycheck to paycheck, it’s because of the decisions that you make, not the income that you make. More than one in five of those earning $100K or more [...]
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I’m a big fan of major on the major, minor on the minor. Too many people spend too much of their precious time trying to save money in small ways only to miss the big opportunities. As a result, they continue to struggle.
That said, I’m human too. I’ve spent and lost money due to certain [...]
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One of the best parts of the weekly personal finance carnivals, including this week’s carnival hosted by WiseBread, it the wide variety of personal finance topics covered. In addition, I always take the time to enjoy an article or two that I’ve been meaning to write myself but just haven’t gotten to. This week was [...]
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Besides this blog, where else do you go for financial information? If you visit other financial blogs, which ones? For non-blog sites, where do you go? Do you stick with those that have been around for many years, like Yahoo! and MSN Money? Do you choose those that you knew first from their off-line existence, [...]
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You: Uh-oh.
What?
You: You’re not going “there,” are you?
No. I have consistently tried my best to suppress any political leaning from my blog postings, books (I say books, not book, because I am working on book number two right now), and seminars.
You: But you must care, right? You do vote, don’t you?
Yes and yes. However, my [...]
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I don’t like to talk disparaging about other people or other companies.
You: So I’ve noticed.
Life is too short and the world is too small.
You: But you’re going to bad-mouth Upromise anyway?
No, I don’t really have an issue with Upromise itself. However, I am concerned about some of the people who have Upromise accounts.
You: Why?
Two reasons. [...]
After a bunch of requests, I finally got my act together and I’m now on Twitter. So, as the saying goes, feel free to follow me on twitter. I have many ideas for using this (relatively) new medium (to me) some of which I think are going to be fun, so hop on over there.
My [...]
Change is good.
It was finally warm enough to go on a hike yesterday. (Well warm enough for a short hike wearing a hat and gloves anyway).
There’s less than a month to go until April 15 (Yes, I do taxes and my clients are thrilled.).
Michigan won a NCAA tournament basketball game for the first time since [...]
Periodically, but with increasing frequency, someone leaves a comment on the Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck blog where it’s obvious the writer is ticked off at his or her inability to receive maximum benefit from some new government incentive:
Just yesterday someone wrote of his frustration caused by an inability to receive the full recovery rebate credit [...]
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