Great article. Growing your own food is great, it’s sustainable (though I think people throw this word around too much), and it’s a fun hobby. But from a purely financial viewpoint, it often costs more to grow things yourself than it does to just buy them at the store. Other reasons aside, people don’t always [...]
Entries Tagged as 'money'
Move Your Money (to smaller banks)!
January 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · money
After reading a great article on the Huffington Post, I think I am nearly convinced to move most of my daily banking away from Bank Of America over to my old Wainwright Bank accounts. Supporting small, community banks is a small way to vote with your dollar against the lack of reform of the larger [...]
Tags: banking·bankofamerica·huffingtonpost·money·wainwrightbank
Tis’ the season to be frugal…
December 15th, 2008 · No Comments · money
I set out on a money saving binge last week, as the other member of this household was laid off and I realized that it would be good to save money any way possible in order to pay down debt and build some savings just in case the same thing happened to me. So, when I got [...]
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How To Reduce Your Student Loan Interest Rate
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Personal Finance
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 [...]
Tags: money
Keep The Change Redux
April 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Local, Personal Finance
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 [...]
Goodbye, PS2
April 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Personal Finance, stuff
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 [...]
GoDaddy’s CashParking = teh lame
April 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Bloggish, Personal Finance
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 Amazon and [...]
Keep The Change
April 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Crosspost, Personal Finance
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 Can Has Common Stock?
March 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Personal Finance
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 [...]
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Say Goodbye To Old Macs…
March 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Computery, Personal Finance
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, [...]
