What Noisy Cats Are We

I’m sure this is common knowledge but just in case, here’s some useful info:  You can reduce the interest rate on your Direct Loan from the US Department Of Education by .25% if you just sign up for them to auto-draft your checking or savings account every month for the payment!  It sounds like a [...]

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I used to talk about how great CoinStar is and how it made turning in your coins such a breeze.  I used CoinStar for years and always thought they did a good job at making people create $$ out of their spare change.  Then a couple of months ago I had an epiphany: Spare change [...]

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In an effort to put more $ toward the new home theater fund, I sold off the PS2 yesterday.  I managed to get $75 for the system with two games and one controller.  It was in relatively good condition, and the only thing we used it for was to watch DVD’s.  I can count on [...]

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I thought it would be a good idea to take one of my unused domains, brandonvogel.com, and monetize it by using GoDaddy’s CashParking service. Ends up it’s been costing me $4.00 per month and I’ve gotten exactly nothing out of it. I’m canceling it today and will just put up a bunch of [...]

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As of today, I’m 100% credit card debt free.  It feels good.
On the subject of credit cards, I currently have four of them.  They’re all fee based horrible cards.  I need to get rid of them.  There is one problem with just getting rid of them though: the potential to damage my credit score.
Still, yaay [...]

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I can’t stop raving about Bank Of America’s Keep The Change program. It’s the epitome of automated penny pinching. If you don’t know what Keep The Change is, here is a brief explanation: BoA rounds up all your debit card purchases for a given day to the nearest dollar, then transfers the money every night [...]

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I now own stock in this company: http://www.prxi.com/prxi.html
I bought ten shares.  Just to try the thing out.  They do the cool Bodies exhibits!  (Plus, if there is a court ruling in their favor, they own a TON of Titanic artifacts!)
The thing is, I’m brand new to investing and don’t expect to make money on this [...]

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Sold off my old Macs finally.  I had a Mac SE, a Mac Classic, and a Mac 512, as well as an Imagewriter I and Stylewriter printer.  They were just taking up space and I had no time to make one into a MacQuarium or anything like that.  I got $20 cash for ‘em.  Hell, [...]

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So the printer at home died.  Well, not died necessarially, but melted.  The computer in the back room of the apartment at Casa De Crazy is situated horizontally due to a broken clip on the motherboard that causes a heatsink to move if the computer is vertical.  That said, I normally keep the printer on [...]

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