I just discovered Restaurant.com where you can buy gift certificates for local restaurants at a discounted price. Most restaurants offer $25 gift certificates for $10 as well as $10 gift certificates for just $3. Some restaurants have other amounts available as well. The gift certificates are printed on your computer, so [...]
On Saturday I posted a simple way to always make money on UpDown.com. I’ve been thinking through that some more in the past couple days, and wrote a little tool to help me decide which stock would have historically done the best in my scenario.
The goal is not necessarily to select the best performing stocks, [...]
A couple weeks ago I was busy with side projects and got a little behind with this blog and all of the financial blogs that I read. Since then I have had a difficult catching back up because of all of the excellent posts. Here are some of my favorites from other blogs [...]
UpDown.com is a fairly new website that combines a virtual stock portfolio with social networking. After signing up for a free account, they give you a virtual $1 million to invest in the stock market. Your goal is to beat the S&P 500 each month. According to a Moolanomy [...]
I’ve been thinking about this question for a several weeks now. PaidTwice has started the Snowflake Revolution, which is a aggregation of blogs that talk about snowflaking. I’ve been looking for an excuse to join, but I’ve not really been sure if the concepts apply to me since I don’t have any [...]
The first round of March Madness at Free Money Finance has ended. I submitted my post about using a prepaid cell phone, but got pretty stomped by Travel the world Cheaply. I had only 9 votes while the travel article had 23.
Oh well. It was my first such attempt at promoting one of my posts [...]
I haven’t had the opportunity to write here much because I’ve been busy with some side jobs. I do a little bit of work with freelance web development and have had the opportunity to work on a couple of those this past week. When those are available, they pay pretty well, so I spend most [...]
My Post about Saving $350 per year on Cell Phone service is up against Travel the world Cheaply. At the March Madness Competition at Free Money Finance. If you enjoy my blog, I’d ask that you head over there and vote for my post.
If my post wins, FMF will donate $500 to to Operation Family [...]
I got involved in running for exercise about 4 months ago. I bough my first pair of shoes from a local running store for $109. I knew that was expensive at the time, but it really was necessary because they provided good customer service by helping me to find the right shoes. [...]
