Month: January 2007

Carnival of personal finance #85

Check out the latest edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance over at Five Cent Nickel today. As usual there are tons of great reads and my humble submission on Switching to Geico and saving on my insurance payments. Since I am currently working on a debt snowball one of the articles I liked was 3 methods to pay down Debt...

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Zack’s stock challenge Jan 28

I have lost a lot of money on the Zacks stock challenge because I kept shifting my stocks around. I would sell every time I noticed the value of the stocks going down. Then they would be up again the next day at a higher price which would have earned me some money. I have decided to just leave the stocks that I have alone...

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Found Money

I went to do laundry and found 15 cents in the washer. This apparently fell out of someone’s clothes while they were washing and they did not notice when they emptied the machine. I said I would leave it to see if anyone would come to claim it because there were about 4 dryers going and there were some washers that were...

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CashDuck contest

Hey everyone, You have heard me talking about CashDuck where you get paid to try various website offers. When you sign up for CashDuck you can get referrals and you earn 10% of what your referrals earn so that will be a few extra cents or a few dollars depending on how well your referrals perform. I have earned about $7.00...

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Cold again

Just when I thought it was finally starting to warm up it gets cold again. On Thursday night it was nice and warm and I did not have to use the heater. I breathed a sigh of relief because I thought I would finally be able to get the electricity bill back to normal. Friday was not too bad and I was doing my happy...

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