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    Friday, May 16, 2008 From Mighty Bargain Hunter - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 16, 2008 at 8:40 pm ET We received our $1,500 economic stimulus payment and our federal tax refund within the past week or so: about $2,100 total.
What are we going to do with it? Well, two months ago we planned for our refund and rebate and $1,700 will be transferred to our ING account to build up our emergency fund. [...] ... (more) Thursday, May 15, 2008 From Mighty Bargain Hunter - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 15, 2008 at 4:15 am ET On the way home from town this past weekend, we passed a farm that was going to be sold at auction. My wife saw that the sale was an absolute auction. She asked me what was so great about an absolute auction. When she said that, my ears perked up.
An absolute auction [...] ... (more) From Mighty Bargain Hunter - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 15, 2008 at 3:41 am ET On the way home from town this past weekend, we passed a farm that was going to be sold at auction. My wife saw that the sale was an absolute auction. She asked me what was so great about an absolute auction. When she said that, my ears perked up.
An absolute auction [...] ... (more) From Mighty Bargain Hunter - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 15, 2008 at 2:22 am ET Just when I was all excited about my cheap exercise bike, my wife comes in to show me a postcard that’s announcing the opening of a YMCA in our county this fall. The membership is $69/month for a family membership. Over eight hundred a year.
She wanted to get a membership for a number [...] ... (more) Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Daughter with food allergies = good tips (4 clicks)
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May 14, 2008 at 1:37 am ET Our daughter has a lot of food allergies that place a lot of restrictions on her diet. A corn allergy takes out a lot of foods, as does dairy. Many of the restaurants we go to don’t have much of anything that our daughter is able to eat.
This leaves us with a few [...] ... (more) From Mighty Bargain Hunter - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 14, 2008 at 12:04 am ET A few people at least are putting their stimulus checks to good use and taking advantage of some new-customer ING $25 bonus offers. Three people today have signed up, which is wonderful, and the $25 bonus is a great way to kick-start an emergency fund.
As a recap, here’s what to do if you don’t [...] ... (more) Monday, May 12, 2008 A first-class marketing idea (2 clicks)
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May 12, 2008 at 11:51 pm ET This marketing idea is inexpensive to implement, and pretty much guaranteed that I’d follow through with the little favor that was asked. It’s really, really smart. (No, I didn’t think of it.)
Every family in our church received a sheet of twenty one-cent stamps (cost: $0.20) stapled to a sheet of paper with the [...] ... (more) Link roundup: Mother’s Day Edition (7 clicks)
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May 12, 2008 at 1:55 am ET Blessings and thanks to all of the mothers out there, especially to my mother, and to my wife, mother of my daughter.
Here are some links of interest from the MBN and other blogs in my reader:
All Financial Matters wonders why people are still buying gas guzzlers.
Consumerism Commentary runs through a couple of options for helping [...] ... (more) Sunday, May 11, 2008 From Mighty Bargain Hunter - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 11, 2008 at 1:02 am ET JLP at All Financial Matters asked his readers how they handle cold calls from charities. Is there a way to handle these kinds of calls gracefully when there’s no interest in giving to the charity? JLP asks: “How do you say no to legitimate calls for help without feeling guilty?”
I’m not anti-charity and [...] ... (more) Saturday, May 10, 2008 From Mighty Bargain Hunter - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 10, 2008 at 1:19 am ET “We’re sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.”
When a business or website says this, does it sometimes hit you as being empty and more than a little ingenuine? Especially when the motive behind the “inconveniencing” actions is clear?
I’ve been using Iwon for a news portal and stock tracker for the past few years. [...] ... (more) Friday, May 9, 2008 From Mighty Bargain Hunter - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 9, 2008 at 2:49 am ET We’ve come to enjoy Amazon Prime. (For those not familiar, Amazon Prime is all-you-can-eat 2-day shipping for $79 per year. Over a million items on Amazon qualify for Amazon Prime.)
We’ve mentioned this before but our daughter has a number of food allergies that make some of her staple foods pretty expensive. Ukrop’s [...] ... (more) Thursday, May 8, 2008 Using money as a reward for good behavior (2 clicks)
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May 8, 2008 at 2:42 am ET Our three-year-old daughter is a very smart, articulate, generally considerate, always cute three-year-old. With her articulateness also comes backtalk, sometimes incessant talking and demanding of attention, and vocal displeasure when the winds aren’t blowing her way.
Our current modes of discipline only seem to have limited effect, so my wife and I were talking about [...] ... (more) Watch what gifts you deduct (7 clicks)
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May 8, 2008 at 12:21 am ET Just because an organization is tax-exempt doesn’t mean that donations to that organization are tax-deductible.
The Internal Revenue Code lists dozens of types of organizations that are exempt from paying federal income tax. Some of these organizations can accept tax-deductible donations, but others can’t. Our Lions Club recently tracked down specifically what kind of [...] ... (more) Tuesday, May 6, 2008 From Mighty Bargain Hunter - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 6, 2008 at 11:17 am ET The US Postal Service will be raising their prices on Monday, May 12th, 2008. The first-class stamp won’t be the only service that will be getting more expensive.
The Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelopes and Boxes will also be getting more expensive. These are the services I use to mail items for customers of [...] ... (more) Monday, May 5, 2008 Link roundup: Birthday edition (4 clicks)
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May 5, 2008 at 1:07 am ET Birthdays, birthdays, and more birthdays. My daughter was invited to three birthday parties on Saturday. We could make two of them. And it was my father’s birthday on Satuday, too! A great birthday day all around.
Here are some links of interest from the Money Blog Network and other blogs in my [...] ... (more) Sunday, May 4, 2008 From Mighty Bargain Hunter - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 4, 2008 at 11:39 pm ET A friend at work has mentioned the US Dollar Index a few times in conversation — mainly with reference to how low it is getting recently. Within the past two months it’s touched below 71, which is as low as it’s been since its inception in March 1973.
What does this number mean? How [...] ... (more) Thursday, May 1, 2008 From Mighty Bargain Hunter - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 1, 2008 at 1:10 am ET My wife and I are munching on some popcorn that I bought from one of my colleagues, whose son is in the Boy Scouts. The quality of the popcorn is fine. The bags don’t open quite as easily as other commercial microwave brands. A variety 30-pack of these was $30, which works [...] ... (more) Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Buy a huge gift card with your rebate? (6 clicks)
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April 29, 2008 at 10:58 pm ET Retailers are lining up with carrots to help you put your economic stimulus check to good use. For large gift card purchases at stores like Kroger, Sears, KMart, and others, the retailers will kick in extra value on the gift card: up to 10% above what you pay for.
Is this opportunism on the part [...] ... (more) This stuff was made for yard sales (5 clicks)
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April 29, 2008 at 12:24 am ET Our Lions Club had a community yard sale a couple of weeks ago. There used to be a bigger selection of things to choose from but we don’t have the same space available to us that we once did, so there aren’t quite as many bigger items.
We still get a few, though. I [...] ... (more) Monday, April 28, 2008 Link Roundup: Bachelor edition (8 clicks)
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April 28, 2008 at 9:38 pm ET I was effectively a bachelor this weekend. My wife and daughter were out of town for a wedding. They’re on the way back now, and not a moment too soon. The house seems empty without them.
Anyway, here are some links from the MBN and other blogs in my reader:
Consumerism Commentary gives an [...] ... (more) Saturday, April 26, 2008 Forever Stamp: You pay for choice (31 clicks)
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April 26, 2008 at 7:50 pm ET The United States Postal Service will be bumping the price of a first-class stamp up a cent to 42 cents on May 12th, 2008. We (foolishly?) have about a couple books’ worth of non-Forever stamps that we probably won’t be able to burn through before the 12th. (I didn’t use them to mail [...] ... (more) Friday, April 25, 2008 Congratulations! You can now keep your money (14 clicks)
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April 25, 2008 at 1:59 am ET April 23rd was Tax Freedom Day in the United States this year. That’s the day that your taxes for the year will be paid, assuming that every penny up until that point went to pay taxes. In other words, it’s the day that you stop working for the government and the day you [...] ... (more) Thursday, April 24, 2008 Ragging on free stuff lacks class (30 clicks)
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April 24, 2008 at 1:14 am ET One of my daily break-time reads is Coding Horror. Jeff Atwood is almost to 100k subscribers on that blog; it’s quite popular.
Today Jeff’s post rags on WordPress, the blogging engine that powers this blog as well as all the others my wife and I have. It’s free to use. The user base [...] ... (more) Wednesday, April 23, 2008 From Mighty Bargain Hunter - view blog entries - visit this blog
April 23, 2008 at 2:03 am ET Five Cent Nickel had a good discussion on bi-weekly mortgage payment plans. I’ve received these before. The principle is sound: 26 bi-weekly payments of half your (fixed-rate) monthly mortgage payment will indeed pay off your mortgage years ahead of schedule. Basically you’re sneaking in an extra payment per year, and taken a [...] ... (more) From Mighty Bargain Hunter - view blog entries - visit this blog
April 23, 2008 at 1:00 am ET (Fair warning: rant ahead! Check out some really cute puppies or join MyPoints if rants aren’t your thing.)
I think I knew that Earth Day was coming up but the real reminder came when I checked Google today. They changed their logo’s primary colors to a happy, huggy lush waterfall scene with a shiny, [...] ... (more) Items 1 - 25 of 155
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